Posted on 02/11/2022 2:29:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 103-year-old man with a history of heart illness died in hospital early Friday (Feb 11) morning after passing out while eating a chocolate cake at his home in Hong Kong.
Emergency personnel were called to his flat on Sau Chuk Yuen Road in Kowloon City shortly before 12.30am after police received a report from his son.
An initial investigation suggested the elderly man collapsed while eating in the living room, according to police. He lived with his son, daughter-in-law and a domestic helper.
He was taken in an unconscious state to Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei, where he later died.
A police spokesman said the initial examination did not show any indication the man had choked. He said an autopsy would be carried out to establish the cause of death.
Separately, a four-year-old boy died after he vomited and passed out at his home in Yuen Long soon after 3am.
His mother called police, saying the boy collapsed in the family’s village house in Nam Hang Tsuen on Tai Tong Road, according to police. Officers came to scene with paramedics in tow.
He was taken unconscious to Pok Oi Hospital in the district, where he later died.
A police source said the boy had a fever on Wednesday and was given medication for it. Police said an autopsy would be conducted.
That’s what I was thinking. For a man 103 years old???!!!! UNLESS foul play was suspected. . . .
6.5 million of the 7 million people in HK have been vaccinated. If you don’t have proof of that, you cannot ride mass transit.
If you travel to HK regardless of vax status, you have to quarantine in a hotel for 3 weeks.
Obviously the jab.
I want to die at 103 with my maid close by while eating chocolate cake.
I remember a dessert menu which featured a heavy serving called “Death by Chocolate.”
103 is better than any lesser number. RIP, old fellow.
Nice way to go.
Not my favorite way to pass on, but definitely in the top three . . .
“He was just getting his life together ...”
103 ways to die.
That’s the way I want to go.
Yes. An obvious case of myocarditis. Either that or he died from worms due to ban on horse dewormer.
Was the cake good?
Not a bad way to go, I’m diabetic I miss cake....and Ice cream even more.
It was the chocolate cake variant of covid.
So what makes this newsworthy?
So it’s a mystery to the Chinese why a 103 year old died? He was 100 and freaking three years old!
Must have been a heavenly cake.
Who didn’t see that coming, tine to ban chocolate.........
He lived right up until he died.
Huh???
Aspiring rapper?
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