Evel Knievel dies.

Yes, lotterylove, I saw that he died what was it, yesterday? To be quite honest, I'm surprised he lived this long. He looked much older than 69 years.

He was so broken up Im shocked that he lived so long. I have arthritis and Im not sure I will live as long as he did. Amazing.

It all depends on how long his father lived. If his father dropped dead of a heart attack in his fifties or sixties, then it is a good chance that Evil Knievel would not have lived that long anyway. But is more likely he inherited his diabetes from his grandfather, but usually tendency to strokes run in the family. However, although he was in a dangerous profession what killed him was something called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and he also had diabetes, hepetitis C, a couple of strokes, etc. You can read it here, http://www.evelknievel.com/
http://www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org/ipf.htm
so he was living on borrowed time and I suppose he wanted to go out with a bang but he did not.