Ed Schultz died?

[meadowlark5]

I just saw an article that said he died this morning he was 64. It said he died quietly in his sleep. Did he have cancer? It didn't say what the cause of death was.

[dhol82]

1. Reports I read just said natural causes.

Could have been a heart attack or any number of other disorders. Nothing concrete was stated.

[left-of-center2012]

2. ...

Ed Schultz, the college football announcer turned liberal commentator who hosted “The Ed Show” for six years on MSNBC, died Thursday. He was 64.

Schultz died of natural causes at his home in Washington, according to WDAY-TV in Fargo, N.D., where he started his media career in the early 1980s

Schultz most recently worked at RT America, the Russian-based television news network distributed on cable and the internet in the U.S.

Schultz joined RT America in 2016, where he hosted its nightly newscast and special event coverage.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-ed-schultz-obit-20180705-story.html#

[Raine]

3. Unfortunately true

sad news to me not sure what the exact cause was.

[tavernier]

4. Wow! Unexpected.

I very much enjoyed his air America radio show, but heard that he later went to the dark side.

[honest.abe]

5. "Natural causes" ??

Dying at 64 is not "natural".

[Codeine]

6. Oh good grief.

Natural causes just means he didn’t die as result of an accident or homicide/suicide. It could be cancer, diabetes, cirrhosis, a stroke, or what have you.

And people die at that age all the damned time. My mom died at 65, her dad at 63, her mom at 64. Some folks don’t have a genetic propensity to long life.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. He was also a big guy.

[honest.abe]

9. Yes.. but its not normal.

Normal life expectency is near 80 years old.

[Tarc]

10. "Average life expectancy" is 80

Do you understand "average" ?

[honest.abe]

13. Yes.. I think in this case normal and average mean about the same thing

What's with the insult?? Get lost.

[Hekate]

17. Actually, you DON'T understand. You need to start reading the obits and seeing how many...

...die in their 40s and 50s, and even earlier.

You need a basic math refresher on what is an "average" and what is a "mean" number -- they are not the same thing as what we think of as "normal."

[Tarc]

18. They do not mean the same thing

If the average is 80, some die before that, some die later than that. Simple, really.

[honest.abe]

20. Good bye.

[Tarc]

24. Glad to help, anytime

[Codeine]

16. That's not how statistics work.

Life expectancy is a mean — half of us kick off before that time, half after. That’s as normal as normal gets.

[honest.abe]

19. Yes. Of course but 64 is young nowadays.

I suspect it was heart attack.

[Codeine]

21. That's probably a safe bet. He was a big guy.

And he looked florid most of the time.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. To conspiracy theorists

Rampant, baseless speculation equals "independent thinking."

But dont stop there - how about throwing in an "Im just asking questions" while youre at it?

[Hekate]

12. Thank you, Codeine. That was just weird.

I had a dear friend whose family all seemed to go in their early 60s. My family gets about another 20 years. My husband's family, otoh, lives well into their 90s unless prematurely offed at Auschwitz.

There seems to be a clock that's wound in our DNA.

[USALiberal]

14. Wow, do you understand that 77 is the AVERAGE???? Read more! nt

[honest.abe]

15. Yeah. He died very young.

Its odd. That all Im trying to say.

[hlthe2b]

7. His stepdaughter Megan Espelien said he had heart problems in NYT article, but MI not confirmed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/obituaries/ed-schultz-blunt-spoken-political-talk-show-host-dies-at-64.html

So very likely a heart attack, even though they are only saying "natural causes"

[oasis]

11. While at MSNBC he had a health issue that caused him to take a

good deal of time off. That was during the Bush II era.