Eddie Van Halen has died

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I had read about him saying that, but in Valerie’s book she pretty much discounts that theory - as did the doctors that Eddie initially saw. She wrote about him seeing some sort of alternative doctor who she described as a quack. He was told very bluntly by doctors at Sloan Kettering to stop smoking and he unfortunately didn’t.
 
Smoking makes much more sense than holding picks in your mouth, I agree! Plus, it seems that would cause lip cancer before tongue cancer.

I never knew she wrote a book! Thanks…was it worth reading?
 
I liked it. I was a bit surprised about some of things she wrote about in her past prior to her meeting Eddie.

A lot of it is themed around her struggles with her weight and emotional eating.
 
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I knew he was battling cancer again, but I’m stunned.
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I don’t understand how you can be stunned. Death will come to us all at some point, I just hope he was right with the Lord when his time came.
 
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I don’t understand how you can be stunned. Death will come to us all at some point,
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Maybe because I thought he had beaten the cancer? Maybe because 65 is still relatively young today? Maybe because as a fan I still thought of him as he was when he was in his heyday?

I really do not see the point of your comment.
 
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Odilon said:
I don’t understand how you can be stunned. Death will come to us all at some point, I just hope he was right with the Lord when his time came.
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He was only 65 years old, which is relatively young. Also, when you are in your 40s or 50s and someone who you were a fan of in your teens or twenties dies, it can be hard because it reminds you of your own mortality, as well as reminding you of a lot of past good times that are faded into the past.

If you don’t understand how a person can be “stunned”, then you just haven’t experienced enough death in your life yet, so kindly try to be a little sensitive and not say, “Death will come to us all at some point”. I hope you don’t go to funerals and say that to the mourners.

As Catholics, we are well aware everybody dies; we’re reminded of it every time we pray. It doesn’t mean that we don’t feel a little bit gobsmacked when someone important to us passes away.
 
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Let me offer the Van Halen ballads “Love Walks In” and “When It’s Love”.


 
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