Somewhat cruel things happen when you lose someone who had already beaten the odds once. Sway DaSafo was born Derek Andrew Safo in Hornsey, North London, to parents who were from Ghana. He died at his home in Ghana in September 2026, at the age of 44, surrounded by the life he had worked hard to build over many years. There was no official word on what caused the death. But Hodgkin lymphoma, the illness that hung over the last part of his life, was something he had already been through and gotten through. In 2010, right in the middle…
Author: Jack Ward
Some people move through public life in silence, taking up more space than anyone really notices—until they disappear. Among them was Bonnie Greer. The 77-year-old British-American playwright, critic, and cultural analyst passed away on the evening of September 15, 2026, after what her husband, David Hutchins, called “a brief illness.” He expressed “profound sadness” in his statement, and it’s difficult to read those two words without feeling the weight they carry. Bonnie Greer’s family made it clear that they wanted to keep the specifics of her illness private. What did come to light—quietly, from those closest to her—was that Greer…
On a Saturday nite in early September 2026, Matt Suhey, a member of the 1985 Chicago Bears championship team, passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 68. No dramatic diagnosis. No protracted public conflict. He just didn’t awaken. There is something appropriate and somewhat unfair about that for a man who endured punishment on NFL fields for ten years without complaining. Suhey played for the Bears from 1980 to 1989 after being drafted out of Penn State. He made 140 appearances during his career and is most remembered for being the primary blocker for Hall of Fame…
On September 7, 2026, Moshiri, one of the most recognizable faces on BBC News, disclosed that she has polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer in which the bone marrow overproduces red blood cells, causing the blood to become dangerously thick. She received the diagnosis in November 2024, so she had to spend almost two years managing the treatment, getting used to the exhaustion, and discreetly developing what she describes as an understanding of how the disease progresses through her life while anchoring one of the most demanding news programs on British television. Days of fourteen hours. Broadcasts in real time.…
The news was released in a way that was subtly confusing. Not overly dramatic. Not very loud. “Tiny” is just a name, a nickname, and a botched procedure thousands of miles away from home. Igho “Tiny” Ubiribo, a 43-year-old British-Nigerian businessman who had created an impressive life and documented it on Instagram, passed away in the early hours of March 6 in an intensive care unit in Bangkok following what coroner Jean Harkin officially determined to be a pulmonary embolism brought on by a cosmetic penile filler procedure. The information is devastating and medical, and it has now been verified…
Billy Ray Smith Jr. said something in an interview in 1987 that is nearly intolerable to read today. “Inside linebackers like to play smash-mouth,” he said, discussing his transition from inside to outside linebacker. Compared to other professions in the US, they lose brain cells more quickly. With the casual assurance of a man who believed he was explaining someone else’s issue, he said it. His age was twenty-six. He couldn’t have known that he was, in a way, already outlining his own destiny. After what his family called a “long journey with dementia caused by CTE,” Smith passed away…
Many people were stopped in their tracks when Cheryl Strayed posted something on Instagram on April 30, 2026. Her husband Brian had been diagnosed with a serious, fatal illness, and she was canceling everything. There were no specifics, no diagnosis mentioned, just a quiet and heartbreaking statement. She asked people to think of her family. Within hours, tens of thousands of people responded to the post. Brian Lindstrom left fifteen days later. On May 15, 2026, Lindstrom passed away from progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurodegenerative brain disease that impairs the cells responsible for basic body coordination, walking, balance, and…
A version of David Bromstad has been extremely ill for several years somewhere in the social media apparatus. He has been identified as having stage IV glioblastoma. He has shared pictures from Orlando hospital beds. He has had surgery and sent sincere messages regarding his recuperation. Several posts posted in Facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of followers claim that he has been in truly terrible shape. It’s all untrue. However, people continue to believe the posts, and that is actually the more intriguing part of the story. Early in 2026, several Facebook posts with pictures of the HGTV star…