One of Lewis’s iconic jokes, back in the day, was that he wanted to be hooked up to a heart attack simulator just to know how it feels.
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He’s glad now that he didn’t say he wanted to be hooked up to pancreatic cancer simulator.
Seems like a bad way to go but it may be better than dying from the endless attacks from liberals.
He was always funny . When he was 16 years old and in high school he appeared on Candid Camera and the episode became a classic. Miss him already . May he Rest in Peace, Amen.
RIP
He had Parkinson’s disease. The heart attack was a blessing.
I worked with a woman whose husband suffered terribly from Parkinson’s disease.
funny guy, RIP
Aww, I always liked him and sorry to see him go, but as Claudia noted, Parkinson’s is a STEEP hill to climb as it progresses.
RIP Richard Lewis
As he got older, he probably showed up at family Thanksgiving dinners exclaiming: “Hey, I got a new pain” and point to some part of his anatomy.
Linda Ronstandt has Parkinson’s disease. She has started getting shaky.
I will miss her, but not her politics. She said she hated the idea of any conservatives/republicans in her audience, or something like that. That makes her the Bud Light of Rock. Talk about alienating half your following. She lives in SF. I wonder how she likes it now.
But her voice, looks, and on-stage presence – outstanding, and she is probably the best female Country/Rocker of all.
Never found this guy funny in the slightest but sorry to see him go.
^^^^^ Ditto. I will miss not seeing him. And I’m not sure why.
Not sure what a heart attack simulator is. Heart attacks can be anything from quietly ceasing to live in your sleep to foaming, thrashing, biting pain, presenting very differently in different people depending on location, severely, duration, and sex, with side trips for traumatic arrests, electrocution, and drug induced issues with legal or illegal drugs.
Closest I ever came was when I needed a stress test but my lungs and knees wouldn’t allow a treadmill method of speeding my heart, so I got the chemical version. I can’t convey how much it sucks for your heart to take off uncontrollably when you’re just lying there, totally dependent on folks to hold you down and not let you die.
Which they aren’t always successful at. Sometimes the test itself kills. Sometimes damage is done during test and recovery. Hospital killed a guy I worked with that way, single father of young children who lost his wife a few months before. They couldn’t slow him down until he crashed, then they couldn’t restart. Sorry kids, guess we found a heart problem tho, so there’s that.
I don’t know if such ‘simulators’ exist, but if it’s accurate to things like crushing, radiating pain, shortness of breath, sweating, radiating agony, and jaw pain of all things, I’m pretty sure you don’t want a preview that could become the real thing just for the hell of it.
The Reaper will be stopping by soon enough.
He’s a busy man, so don’t ask him for samples.
You can get vaxxxed for free, if you really insist.
Who knows, you may even survive it…