He was born in my state of Missouri. Dammit! He died of uremia, which I believe is gout. I know of a man  (a co worker) who , in the 1980s suffered from gout ; he weighed somewhere between  400-500 lbs  His weight made him freakishly enormous in the late 1980s. No one then ever imagined a world in which the MAJORITY is overweight or obese, or in which a fat person meant any heavier than 200-300 lbs, maybe 50-100 lbs over an ideal/healthy weight. The idea that every trip to the grocery store meant seeing people the size of my long-ago co worker was unthinkable.  WHEN is this fucking pendulum going to swing back-???