[The people have spoken]

An illness that cannot be named? Must be AIDS.

[Cowboy Bob]

My first thought. AIDS is an illness...

[usafa92]

Unlikely. He has 4 children.

[Bell Bouy II]

“An illness that cannot be named?”

Sorry I missed that in the short piece

[Meatspace]

“An illness that cannot be named? Must be AIDS.”

Or, the family simply does not believe that you need to know.

[Leep]

Or, H1N1?

[Baldwin]

John Heyman from MLB network tweeted that Hank had had a liver issue.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

An illness that cannot be named? Must be AIDS.

There's no stigma associated with AIDS in 2020. And people aren't dying to it anymore - certainly not wealthy people who can afford treatment.

[x]

More likely liver disease. That's taken by many people as a way of saying alcoholism. Drug overdose is also something that wouldn't get mentioned. And the way things are, lung cancer, emphysema, and type 2 diabetes will soon be diseases that cannot be named.

Plus, is it really anybody's business what somebody dies of? The guy could have died of pneumonia, but do we really need to know that? When you die, if the cause of death isn't listed in the death notice, should we assume AIDS got you?

[Vaquero]

Some sort of liver ailment according to Wikipedia.