I am just watching the M.A.S.H. Episode with Patrick Swayze...
 

Season 8 - one of his early appearances as young actor

he plays a soldier that gets diagnosed with leukemia and is told that he is going to die

isn't that creepy?

I saw that episode the other day. I thought the same thing

Seen it... used to watch that show for days, but havent seen it now in a couple years a t least

i saw a hardcore gay military themed porn the other day and thought the same thing...

that patrick swayze must be a bottom...

i have all seasons on DVD and have seen them several times now. one of the best shows ever :thumbsup

Thats super fucked up, I never made the connection.

That is creepy.

he's been very young and completely unknown at that time

Sad. :(


For the record i've been watching M.A.S.H. quite a lot lately on one of our cable channels. Can't beat it !!! :thumbsup

...hope Patrick Swayze will be around us for a long time

I had totally forgotten about that one!

Sadly, Patrick Swayze is a victim of smoking. He's been a heavy smoker his whole life.

although he would more likely get lung cancer if he was a heavy smoker. saw that with my father

I saw part of the Barbara Walters interview he did about a month ago, and I couldn't believe that he said he is still smoking cigarettes! I just couldn't believe it. He even acknowledged that he believed smoking was "part of it". As in part of the reason he got pancreatic cancer. He said he has his "priorities." Hopefully, he will survive. He'll be lucky if he does survive, though... as pancreatic cancer has a 4% survival rate.

You make yourself more susceptible to cancer in general if you are a smoker, though. I know that you double the risk of colon cancer if you smoke.

Used to love that show.

At first I was appalled that he was so cavalier about it, about keeping on with his smoking habit even though he's facing his own demise. But after thinking about it I can only surmise that it's one of those things where you only have so many simple pleasures left in your life, and for him smoking is one of them. Giving up the habit at the point he's at probably wouldn't do much towards "saving his life" anyway, he's been at it too long.

So I can sort of see why he would choose not to give it up, in that light. (see what I did there? "light?" :D )

smoking does not mean youll die from lung cancer, but it will speed up the process of cancer in your body and it is highly likely other types of cancer can occur in heavy smokers, not just lung cancer.

alcohol also speeds up the growth process

also its being reported he hasnt stopped smoking the entire time hes been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

As i said above, alcohol will speed up pancreatic cancer faster than you can imagine... no secret he drinks and smokes.

still smoking: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...k_n_91486.html

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I know its sad but this sort of thing is not by accident, and Swayze himself is definitely responsible for the behavior that lead to this.