[AzSteven]

Wow, that’s unexpected. I’d heard he was in for gallbladder surgery, but it didn’t sound like a big thing?

Any invasive abdominal surgery is hazardous when the patient is 77. Rarely fatal, but sometimes it happens.

Condolences to his family. I generally opposed what he stood for, but I imagine he was doing what he thought was correct.

[Tenniel2]

With a total of four half-inch abdominal incisions, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is as minimally invasive as it gets.

That said, one had to wonder what was up when last week's initial reports of Murtha's "complications" didn't offer any details.

[grumpygresh]

He may have had gall bladder CA. His biliary drainage system could have become scarred which could result in liver failure. But to go this quick, he could have had a perforated GB with a massive sepsis and multi-organ failure.

He certainly was a controversial and tragic public figure. We must nonetheless pray that God is merciful.

[ichabod1]

Whoever operated on him ought to get a goldarned medal for saving the republic.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“I generally opposed what he stood for, but I imagine he was doing what he thought was correct.”

You are much too kind. His kind of politics reeks...and his attacks on the military were evil.