RIP Pecos Bill (Patrick Swayze dies at age 57)

Barbossa · Post by **Barbossa** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:30 pm

Patrick Swayze has succumbed to his cancer. Everyone pretty much knew him for Dirty Dancing, but to Disney fans he was Pecos Bill in Tall Tale. RIP Patrick.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8256033.stm

zackisthewalrus · Post by **zackisthewalrus** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:34 pm

http://bit.ly/3uNLhR

I've never actually seen anything with him in it, but I've heard that he was a good actor, and he'll be missed. RIP

universALLove · Post by **universALLove** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:38 pm

oh no!!! This is so sad!

pap64 · Post by **pap64** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:38 pm

I had no idea he was suffering from cancer! That's very unfortunate! He was excellent in Ghost. He will be missed

.

pap64 · Post by **pap64** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:40 pm

He was also the lead character in Ghost, another iconic role of his.

Elladorine · Post by **Elladorine** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:41 pm

I can't believe how many amazing and incredibly talented people we've lost this year.

universALLove · Post by **universALLove** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:42 pm

I knew he had cancer and a while ago I heard people saying he only had 5 weeks to live but those 5 weeks past and there was no knews of his passing, so I thought he was fine and that it may just have been a vicious rumour!

There have been so many celebrity deaths this year

PeterPanfan · Post by **PeterPanfan** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:44 pm

Oh my God.

THIS IS TERRIBLE!

RIP.

universALLove · Post by **universALLove** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:50 pm

enigmawing wrote:I can't believe how many amazing and incredibly talented people we've lost this year.

I know, it's so tragic

Elladorine · Post by **Elladorine** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:58 pm

I loved Dirty Dancing when I was a preteen and still enjoy that movie as well as Ghost. I had no idea he had cancer to begin with so this is a complete shock to me.

May he rest in peace.

Cordy_Biddle · Post by **Cordy_Biddle** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:39 pm

He was so wonderful in 'Dirty Dancing'. Rest in peace, you are finally free from the pain.

disneyboy20022 · Post by **disneyboy20022** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:13 pm

Nick Bryant wrote:
enigmawing wrote:I can't believe how many amazing and incredibly talented people we've lost this year.
I know, it's so tragic

yeah and what's more disturbing...more of the celebrity deaths that has happened a lot of the majority of them were 50-65.....which is scary to me because people use to not die a lot around that age.....I mean I thought people usually lived until like 70 although I realize thats not often the case.....and most of them have been guys....Bernie Mac.....Billy Mays....Michael Jackson.... Wayne Alwine....Tim Russert....and I am sure I am forgeting several others but If I recall corectly they all didn't live to 70...

pap64 · Post by **pap64** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:17 pm

disneyboy20022 wrote:
Nick Bryant wrote: I know, it's so tragic
yeah and what's more disturbing...more of the celebrity deaths that has happened a lot of the majority of them were 50-65.....which is scary to me because people use to not die a lot around that age.....I mean I thought people usually lived until like 70 although I realize thats not often the case.....and most of them have been guys....Bernie Mac.....Billy Mays....Michael Jackson.... Wayne Alwine....Tim Russert....and I am sure I am forgeting several others but If I recall corectly they all didn't live to 70...

My uncle died last year of heart failure at 60, while my cousin died of rat germ poisoning while he was in his late 40s.

While the trend is disturbing you have to remember some of these deaths were natural.

Michael Jackson died of overdose, Bernie Mac for pneumonia (if I am not mistaken), Wayne Allwine had diabetes complications (and those you either survive or not) and Billy May got hit on the head. These were freak accidents and unfortunate events not directly related to their age and health.

While its true that the lifestyle we lead are causing us to die younger there are still people who live long enough to be above 90 even. It all depends on what circumstances are thrown your way.

Beast_enchantment · Post by **Beast_enchantment** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:18 am

i'm trying not to cry again, but this is so tragic!

i barely slept last night. It's going to be so hard to watch Ghost now without crying even more than i usually do!
he was a great man.

Bloody hell! What a year!!

BelleGirl · Post by **BelleGirl** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:57 am

I remember Patrick Swayze first from the TV series North & South, next I saw him in Ghost and City of Joy. His big hit Dirty Dancing I saw later. The last role I know he played was that of a golf-teacher with a dirty mind in the black comedy Keeping mum.

It's very sad that he had to die of cancer but it's not really unexpected. It's been known for some time now that he was suffering from it and that it was a type of cancer that was hard to battle.

May you continue to dance up there Patrick where you're free of pain!

ajmrowland · Post by **ajmrowland** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:08 pm

I don't think I saw any of his work. Still sad though.

Jack Skellington · Post by **Jack Skellington** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:20 pm

R.I.P Patrick !

I'll always remember him as the guy from Ghost.

disneyboy20022 · Post by **disneyboy20022** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:39 pm

pap64 wrote:
disneyboy20022 wrote: yeah and what's more disturbing...more of the celebrity deaths that has happened a lot of the majority of them were 50-65.....which is scary to me because people use to not die a lot around that age.....I mean I thought people usually lived until like 70 although I realize thats not often the case.....and most of them have been guys....Bernie Mac.....Billy Mays....Michael Jackson.... Wayne Alwine....Tim Russert....and I am sure I am forgeting several others but If I recall corectly they all didn't live to 70...
My uncle died last year of heart failure at 60, while my cousin died of rat germ poisoning while he was in his late 40s.

While the trend is disturbing you have to remember some of these deaths were natural.

Michael Jackson died of overdose, Bernie Mac for pneumonia (if I am not mistaken), Wayne Allwine had diabetes complications (and those you either survive or not) and Billy May got hit on the head. These were freak accidents and unfortunate events not directly related to their age and health.

While its true that the lifestyle we lead are causing us to die younger there are still people who live long enough to be above 90 even. It all depends on what circumstances are thrown your way.

Oh I realize that...My Grandpa died earlier this year at 91 so yeah i realize that people do live and that's what we don't hear of lately...Ed McMahon died the week of Farrah Fawcet and Michael Jackson......and Billy Mays.....and Ed McMahon was about 80-90 if I recall...its just that whole week seemed to be the worst case of celebrites death in a row. of 4. and it all depends which cirmustances are thrown your way...I mean....eventual death does lead to something health related.....usually untreated if the person who dies died at 50 -60....and Pneumonia can sometimes kill you...it just depends upon the person...like I'd wager a 20 year old with Pneumonia is better chance of recovering from Pnemonia than a 90 year old....Our bodies are like in a sense a battery...or a machine...if something goes wrong....it can lead to a break down....and then once one thing goes then it dies on you...and people dieing of Pneumonia or Diabetes and even heart attakcs isnt that all freak of nature.....in fact its nature...people die every day with these things even if the age is 50-60.....even cancer

Now I will say this Billy Mays and Bernie Mac and Wayne Alwines death was shocking and unexpected but I wouldn't rule them a Freak Accident due to what I posted above

Now in Michael Jackson's death...I would defintily put that up that with the bizzare freak accident/occurance/ of death.....

Elladorine · Post by **Elladorine** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:51 pm

Since this is a Disney board I thought it was worth mentioning the voice work he did for Fox and the Hound 2. I'm tempted to dig that DVD out for another viewing now . . .

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