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Heart Attack - Lurking in the Wings

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The comedian Ian Cognito died on stage of a suspected heart attack on Thursday evening. A few minutes earlier he had been joking about dying on stage. He became breathlessness, sat down and became still. People were laughing as they thought it was all part of the act. When they realised something was wrong two off-duty A&E nurses applied CPR. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

RIP Ian - you left us too soon!

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Wow, I need to quit joking about dying

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HHH2017

How very poignant! The only consolation is he died doing what he loved. RIP X

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benjijen

I believe this also happened to Tommy Cooper years ago on a tv show. It just shows we never know what will happen so we should enjoy what we have.

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Dickyticker26 in reply tobenjijen

"Just like that!"

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shopman

It happens more frequently than we are possibly led to believe. I lost brother and dad similar to this.

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Dickyticker26

During a pantomime in Newcastle it was announced that the assistant house manager had just died and the audience shouted out in one voice "Oh no he hasn't!"

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Dickyticker26

Then there was the doctor who gave a private patient six months to live

Unfortunately the patient was unable to pay the bill so the kind doctor gave him anther six months

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