Posted on 01/13/2023 1:02:40 PM PST by rey
Robbie Knievel, the son of the famed stuntman and daredevil Evel Knievel, has tragically died aged 60.
The news was first reported by TMZ, which reports that a source close to the family revealed that Robbie Knievel had been receiving hospice care as he battled pancreatic cancer.
Knievel reportedly died on Friday morning (January 13), with his daughters by his side.
Following in his father's footsteps as a thrillseeking performer, Robbie rode his first bike when he was just four years old, and went on to perform at his father's Madison Square Garden show when he was just eight.
Throughout his career, he became known by the moniker of "Kaptain Robbie Knievel".
TMZ reports that Robbie performed over 350 jumps throughout his incredible career - cementing his legacy by setting world records for 20 of them.
In 2010, Robbie spoke out about his father's legacy, and highlighted how stuntmen like them are a "dying breed".
"I can never fill [my father's] shoes because he was the greatest stunt guy in the world - the greatest daredevil," Robbie said, per the Daily Record. "We are a dying breed but I'm proud to have been raised by one and to be one myself."
During the interview, Robbie recalled how his father once told him that he never wanted his son to become a stuntman following a near-fatal crash in Wembley, that left Evel with a broken pelvis and crushed vertebrae.
But, as it turned out, Robbie was just enamored with the career and his father's love of performing.
"I used to ride every day with my dad and he said I was better than him when I was 15. We did so many good shows together," Robbie remembered. "He was just a guy who came along at the right time.
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His treatment was pretty well documented. It’s out there if you are interested.
You can read, can’t you?
Yes.
According to Steve Jobs’ biographer, Walter Isaacson, the Apple mastermind eventually came to regret the decision he had made years earlier to reject potentially life-saving surgery in favor of alternative treatments like acupuncture, dietary supplements and juices. Though he ultimately embraced the surgery and sought out cutting-edge experimental methods, they were not enough to save him. Jobs’ cancer had been discovered by chance during a CT scan in 2003 to look for kidney stones, during which doctors saw a "shadow” on his pancreas. Isaacson told CBS’ 60 Minutes last night that while the news was not good, the upside was that the form of pancreatic cancer from which Jobs suffered (a neuroendocrine islet tumor) was one of the 5% or so that are slow growing and most likely to be cured. But Jobs refused surgery after diagnosis and for nine months after, favoring instead dietary treatments and other alternative methods. - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-cancer-treatment-regrets/?sh=43272f407d2e
My dad, who did not smoke or drink but breathed in plenty of smoke as a expert welder for over 35 years, died of PC. It is hard to diagnose early and by the time he was then it was too late. But he did not suffer much.
As for Robbie Knievel, i guess he had it for a while. His dad lived longer, dying in Clearwater, Florida, on November 30, 2007, aged 69, after suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis for many years.
However, by the grace of God (no understatement) "Evel" made his greatest "jump" when he sincerely gave His sins and life to Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us. His honest testimony of it (video) in Robert Schuller Crystal Cathedral )of all places) is very likely the most gospel that congregation ever heard. And which I wish everyone would. Evel reiterated the story of his conversion in other places as well before his passing from this world and into glory. Thanks be to God.
I’ve just been diagnosed stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Chemo in progress. There are survivors and I am FIGHTING to be one!!
Amen thanks brother. A happy story makes a nice change these days
And if you listen to him, including expanded interviews as here, then he is quite a preacher in via honest, frank but profound testimony.
We all shall die of something someday
Make your plans now
I gots to know!!
This should urge us all to take the gospel to the folks who possibly have never heard it presented
We’re praying for you!
Evel couldn’t t hold a candle to Super Dave Osborne.
Turbo cancer, I think is the noveau term. An unexpectedly common thing in a post mRNA treatment world.
Prayers up!
Good reminder for all of us.
Although I am not an Eastern religion cult believer myself, I used to have a new age magazine cover I put up at work with a natural scene and a Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi author) quotation:
Be thankful to have the blessing of one ordinary day.
I had gone through having my precious wife in the hospital for 54 days and thanks be to God she made it back for 22 years before dying suddenly at home in February of last year. Those "ordinary" days when she could be happy at home were all blessings.
I tried to remember each day was something for which to be thankful to God.
Man, how old? May God have mercy. And may you received the same that Christ obtained for us, as Evel told of, if you have not yet.
Didn’t Clint Eastwood say that? 🤗
Praying for you.
Thanks again Dan that was a great interview. I had no idea he was saved!
Did he fire 5 or 6?
Yes we were having some fun but mixing up two different movies.
Dirty Harry movie had the “I gots to know” dude.
Magnum Force movie had the line at end “a man’s got to know his limitations”.
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