I know, but there an elephant in the room, although Jim Fixx, a best selling author on running, died of a sudden heart attack in 1984.
Condolences to family and friends of Sean Buroughs.
Vaxxed?
Fixx died of a heart attack at 52. He tried to run away from heart disease and was a bit successful. His father died of a second heart attack at 43. What Fixx did not do was get screened. It’s possible one of the available treatments might have extended his run.
Not Safe and Effective.
History and exposure to drugs may be part of it but this is happening too often at a ridiculously young age.
Fixx was also a decade older and had other issues.
But this is playing out all too often.
I remember Sean and his team in Williamsport.
RIP Sean. You did great things.
Global warming?
Jeff Burroughs son if I recall correctly.
Scavenging garbage cans for food and moving from one seedy Las Vegas motel to another, Burroughs may have died if not for family members, substance-abuse workers and others who rescued him...
Sympathies to the family.
JIm Fixx had serious heart problems that ran in his family, his exercise probably added some years to his life.
Sean Burroughs had a drug addiction that fueled a descent into what the ex-Padres third baseman described as a hallucination-filled, wretched existence from 2008-10. “I just say it was about the worst thing you can think of, then think even worse,” Burroughs said. “My addictions the last few years just escalated. It got to the point where there wasn’t anything stronger, anything more powerful, I could’ve done to myself to numb me out. The un-named drugs set him up for the cardiac arrests.
The solution is a warning to never use addicting drugs.
To the posters who ignorantly mentioned the COVID-19 vaxx, Burroughs died of a fentanyl overdose:
https://nypost.com/2024/07/10/sports/ex-mlb-infielder-sean-burroughs-cause-of-death-revealed/