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In reply to the discussion: Now that Republicans are extinct in Orange County is it time to rename John Wayne Airport? [View all]lunasun
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Did John Wayne die with 30lbs of feces in intestines?
No. This is an "urban legand" (various reports state 30lbs, 40lbs, etc) and has been debunked by the good folks at snopes.com. (see link below)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/meat-your-maker-2/
No matter what the medical possibilities might be, the prototypical John Wayne example is still a demonstrable lie: No autopsy was performed on John Wayne when he succumbed to cancer in 1979. The medical examiners office had no reason to hold an autopsy since Wayne had obviously died from natural causes, and hospital pathologists had little to learn by requesting the autopsy of a cancer patient who had already undergone several major surgeries (and Waynes family would have denied such a request in any case). In fact, Waynes relatives were so intent on fending off a crush of media and fan attention after his death that they hired a security guard to block access to his hospital room, had his body quickly and secretly transferred to a mortuary, held a funeral service attended only by family and a few friends at 5:45 in the morning, and had him interred in a plot without a headstone.
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