9:34 pm - 11/24/2012
Former boxing champ Hector 'Macho' Camacho died early Saturday in Puerto Rico.
Camacho went into cardiac arrest and was then taken off life support and died shortly thereafter, Dr. Ernesto Torres, the director of the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan, told the AP.
He won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s for a stunning career record of 79-6-3. He knocked out Sugar Ray Leonard in 1997, ending the former champ's final comeback attempt.
Camacho was shot in the face on Tuesday while sitting in a car with a friend. Cocaine was later found in the friend's pockets.
Camacho was declared brain dead on Thursday, but his family was still divided over whether to remove life support. His cardiac arrest early this morning made that decision for them.
Camacho's sisters have said they would like to fly his body back to New York, where he grew up, and bury him there. The fighter was raised mostly in Harlem, earning the nickname the 'Harlem Heckler.'
Radar
Boxing Great Hector 'Macho' Camacho, Taken Off Life Support, Dead At 50
Former boxing champ Hector 'Macho' Camacho died early Saturday in Puerto Rico.
Camacho went into cardiac arrest and was then taken off life support and died shortly thereafter, Dr. Ernesto Torres, the director of the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan, told the AP.
He won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s for a stunning career record of 79-6-3. He knocked out Sugar Ray Leonard in 1997, ending the former champ's final comeback attempt.
Camacho was shot in the face on Tuesday while sitting in a car with a friend. Cocaine was later found in the friend's pockets.
Camacho was declared brain dead on Thursday, but his family was still divided over whether to remove life support. His cardiac arrest early this morning made that decision for them.
Camacho's sisters have said they would like to fly his body back to New York, where he grew up, and bury him there. The fighter was raised mostly in Harlem, earning the nickname the 'Harlem Heckler.'
Radar
PS: God forbid you are on life support, would you want to be kept on or have the plug pulled?
Edited at 2012-11-25 04:31 am (UTC)
It was a terrible experience.
if i were injured with extensive head/brain stem trauma and i wasn't breathing for 5< minutes with documented brain death, or inoperable cancer, than pull the plug. but if i had some sort-of infection that would go into remission eventually and my brain is still structurally sound, no necrosis, than maybe i'd want to be kept on life support for a finite amount of time. also, it depends if i have a family at this point or not.
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