Death Of Legendary Figures
Why are celebrity deaths so interesting?
We look at the celebrities from a distance and we imagine what their life would be like and we usually admire them or emulate them. So when they die we try to find out the real clue of the things that may have killed them, as trying to give us another look of how they lived. There are a number of celebrities, that not until they died did we realize some of the habits they were in, or some of the other different types of things that they were into until we discovered that they had died in a certain way. One of those you might remember as probably the earliest one was Rock Hudson who died from AIDS. He was one of the first celebrities to come forward and mention that he acquired this disease. It took years to build up his reputation as a ladies man, even though his close friends knew he was a homosexual, the public had no clue. So it was pretty much a shock. Although he was admired in the press for coming out finally towards the end of his death, reports indicate that the person he was having the affair with wasn't given the benefit of coming out and he continued to have relationships with this person even after he had AIDS.
How did Houdini die?
Houdini died from a punch in the stomach, in his appendix. He was very proud of the way that men would take pride in getting punched in the stomach, believe it or not, it showed a sense of masculinity. He was a known contortionist. He could break his shoulder, and dislocate his shoulder to get out of straitjackets. So he had a unique type of anatomy. It has it that he was sucker-punched and wasn't prepared for the punch he received from this college student, and that caused his appendix to burst. Shortly after he was put into the hospital and died of gangrene from that wound. But the interesting thing is that the college student who had punched him may have had another type of curse, and he died almost 20 years later, even though he had degrees from different colleges. He died penniless of malnutrition.
How did Harry 'The Human Fly' Gardiner die?
How did the man behind the 'Have A Nice Day' smiley campaign die?
How did Christopher Columbus die?
