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Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died
after a sudden illness. He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate
standards.

I thought his politics were all over the map when first elected. Before
Trump, I thought he'd settled into an ordinary conservative Senator, but
to survive, he endorsed Trump early and was a somewhat reliable ally. He
stayed recognizeably conservative in foreign policy.

https://apnews.com/article/lindsey-graham-dies-south-carolina-bfa556e170f2df22ce9ffc7165da3dfa

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/us/politics/lindsey-graham-dead.html
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:21:10 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died
after a sudden illness. He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate standards.

I thought his politics were all over the map when first elected. Before Trump, I thought he'd settled into an ordinary conservative Senator, but
to survive, he endorsed Trump early and was a somewhat reliable ally. He stayed recognizeably conservative in foreign policy.

https://apnews.com/article/lindsey-graham-dies-south-carolina-bfa556e170f2df22ce9ffc7165da3dfa

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/us/politics/lindsey-graham-dead.html

He sure was a colourful character.

Even Conservatives Are DISTURBED By Lindsey Graham <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDJMfOYxLU>
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died
after a sudden illness.

Coincidentally similar to what was cited for Victor Willis.

He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate
standards.

I thought his politics were all over the map when first elected.

I remember him as a House member in the Iran-Contra days.

Before Trump, I thought he'd settled into an ordinary conservative Senator, but
to survive, he endorsed Trump early

He used to denounce Trump and Twitterers made a compilation of the
harsh criticisms he made of Trump and most often quoted one where
he said backing Trump would doom the Republicans.

Then he switched to,as electoral-vote.com put it,
dividing his time between licking Trump's golf shoes
and telling the world how great they taste.

and was a somewhat reliable ally. He
stayed recognizeably conservative in foreign policy.

https://apnews.com/article/lindsey-graham-dies-south-carolina-bfa556e170f2df22ce9ffc7165da3dfa

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/us/politics/lindsey-graham-dead.html

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died
after a sudden illness. He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate >standards.

Preliminary finding: aortic rupture

That's not survivable.

https://apnews.com/article/lindsey-graham-dies-south-carolina-bfa556e170f2df22ce9ffc7165da3dfa
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Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died
after a sudden illness.

Coincidentally similar to what was cited for Victor Willis.

He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate
standards.

I thought his politics were all over the map when first elected.

I remember him as a House member in the Iran-Contra days.

That was a confused memory...it was actually the Clinton impeachment.
I remembered his being one of the partisan Republicans in the inquiry.

Before Trump, I thought he'd settled into an ordinary conservative Senator, but
to survive, he endorsed Trump early

He used to denounce Trump and Twitterers made a compilation of the
harsh criticisms he made of Trump and most often quoted one where
he said backing Trump would doom the Republicans.

Then he switched to,as electoral-vote.com put it,
dividing his time between licking Trump's golf shoes
and telling the world how great they taste.

and was a somewhat reliable ally. He
stayed recognizeably conservative in foreign policy.

https://apnews.com/article/lindsey-graham-dies-south-carolina-bfa556e170f2df22ce9ffc7165da3dfa

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/us/politics/lindsey-graham-dead.html

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died >>after a sudden illness. He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate >>standards.

Preliminary finding: aortic rupture

That's not survivable.

Isn't that how Lavrenty Beria died?
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In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died >after a sudden illness. He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate >standards.

Preliminary finding: aortic rupture

That's not survivable.

It is, actually. A friend of mine had one at age 71. He was one of my mountain-biking buddies and he was rocking the trails *hard* at his
age -- kicking the asses of a lot of 15-20-years younger men,
including that of Your Humble Narrator.

He woke up one night in agony, screaming (and I'd seen him take a rock
to the face at 15+ mph in a bike wreck and get up and shake it off)
and was Life-Flighted into immediate surgery.

It wrecked him. He never came close to getting on a bicycle again and
he was in and out of the hospital with multiple surgeries, and after
something less than a year of that he just said "No more
interventions" and checked out relatively peacefully.

I mean, at least he got to have a little bit of time with family and
say his good-byes and relive some memories for a while.

It's probably not *recoverable* but it is technically survivable.
(There are other cases in the literature, as well.)
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J.D. Baldwin <SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com> wrote:

In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died
after a sudden illness. He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate
standards.

Preliminary finding: aortic rupture

That's not survivable.

It is, actually. A friend of mine had one at age 71. He was one of my mountain-biking buddies and he was rocking the trails *hard* at his
age -- kicking the asses of a lot of 15-20-years younger men,
including that of Your Humble Narrator.

He woke up one night in agony, screaming (and I'd seen him take a rock
to the face at 15+ mph in a bike wreck and get up and shake it off)
and was Life-Flighted into immediate surgery.

It wrecked him. He never came close to getting on a bicycle again and
he was in and out of the hospital with multiple surgeries, and after something less than a year of that he just said "No more
interventions" and checked out relatively peacefully.

I mean, at least he got to have a little bit of time with family and
say his good-byes and relive some memories for a while.

It's probably not *recoverable* but it is technically survivable.
(There are other cases in the literature, as well.)

Somewhere else it was noted that Lucille Ball died of one aortic
dissection shortly after having had surgery to repair another.

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In article <1131j0t$hvs$1@reader1.panix.com>,
SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com says...

In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Lindsey Graham, long time Republican senator from South Carolina, died >after a sudden illness. He was 71, not especially elderly by Senate >standards.

Preliminary finding: aortic rupture

That's not survivable.

It is, actually. A friend of mine had one at age 71. He was one of my mountain-biking buddies and he was rocking the trails *hard* at his
age -- kicking the asses of a lot of 15-20-years younger men,
including that of Your Humble Narrator.

He woke up one night in agony, screaming (and I'd seen him take a rock
to the face at 15+ mph in a bike wreck and get up and shake it off)
and was Life-Flighted into immediate surgery.

It wrecked him. He never came close to getting on a bicycle again and
he was in and out of the hospital with multiple surgeries, and after something less than a year of that he just said "No more
interventions" and checked out relatively peacefully.

I mean, at least he got to have a little bit of time with family and
say his good-byes and relive some memories for a while.

It's probably not *recoverable* but it is technically survivable.
(There are other cases in the literature, as well.)

The one that immediately comes to mind is Dr. Michael DeBakey, who
developed the classification system for aortic dissection as well as the surgical technique used to repair it. He underwent surgery to repair a
type 2 dissection at 97 years old and lived to be almost 100 before
dying of natural causes.

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/medicine/news-events/dean's-blog/dr-michael- debakey-and-his-dissecting-aneurysm
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