On Nov 18, 7:20=EF=BF=BDpm, Rocket Scientist <hoaido...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Nov 18, 3:55=EF=BF=BDpm, BLACKPOOLJIMMY <Blackpoolji...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 5/30/2008 =EF=BF=BD 30 =EF=BF=BD Lorenzo Odone =EF=BF=BD Other
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> He was the youngest on the list to die so I looked him up: (from
> Wikipedia)
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> Lorenzo died at his home in Fairfax, Virginia on May 30, 2008, one day
> after his 30th birthday, with his father Augusto and his life long
> friend Omouri Hassane at his side. He had come down with aspiration
> pneumonia after getting food stuck in his lungs. He began breathing
> heavily (erroneously described by various media re****ts as "bleeding
> heavily"), and before an ambulance reached his home he was already
> dead.
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> He had lived more than 20 years longer than doctors had predicted and
> was the oldest survivor of adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). =EF=BF=BDWith the
> limited research available, his father Augusto invented Lorenzo's oil,
> which is the first agent to have shown therapeutic benefit in halting
> the destruction of the myelin sheathing of nerves caused by this
> disease. His parents' quest for a treatment for Lorenzo was depicted
> in the 1992 film Lorenzo's Oil. =EF=BF=BDAdditionally, Phil Collins
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> a poem written by his mother, Michaela to Lorenzo to music for the
> song "Lorenzo" in his 1996 album Dance into the Light.
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> -H
Interesting info, thanks.
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