Far too young. He was a victim of cancer?
Not that I know of, but he may well have been.
Probably nothing to do with it, but saw an interview with him a few weeks ago and he was saying he had permanent hic-cups for over 2 weeks...!
Probably had everything to do with it.
There was a story on the radio up here about 2 months ago about a guy who had the hic-ups for over a week, years ago. no one could understand why, so he put his story on the Internet and japenese specialists flew him over to japan for test, it turned out he had a brain tumour that was affecting the part of the brain that induced a form of hic-ups. They cut it out and it saved his life.
Sounds freakishly similar to me.