In our prayers

Chuck Colson has died...most of the papers only remember him from Watergate, but his "Prison Fellowship" works in US Prisons, and most of the comments on the news stories are full of vitriol, but I am most familiar with their work helping families of prisoners to visit their dads for the holidays... (In the USA, often prisons are located in rural areas, far from the cities, so it is hard for folks to visit them without staying overnight...and this group often assisted families of those in local prisons not only with gifts but in helping them visit.

But since Colson was a republican, and many of those helping prisoners live in rural areas, their actions won't get into the MSM...
and no, I've never worked with prisoners, but Lolo did work part time at one before he retired...

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I was puzzled at reports that Andrew Beitbart died of "heart failure", and that he had both hardening of the arteries and a large heart...but checking other reports, it seems he probably had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and died of sudden cardiac death...a hard disease to diagnose, and one that runs in families...another cause of sudden cardiac death:  long QT syndrome or a similar electrical problem in the heart...)

Wikipedia actually has an entry on "sudden unexpected death syndrome" in SE Asians:

Sudden unexplained death syndrome was first noted in 1977 among Hmong refugees in the US.^[2][3] The disease was again noted in Singapore, when a retrospective survey of records showed that 230 otherwise healthy Thai men died suddenly of unexplained causes between 1982 and 1990:^[4] In the Philippines, where it is referred to in the vernacular as bangungot, SUDS affects 43 per 100,000 per year among young Filipinos. Most of the victims are young males.^[5]

presumably it is a variation of Sudden Cardiac death and in some cases it is from Brugada syndrome, which also can sometimes (but not always) be picked up on a routine cardiogram...

We have had at least two younger men in Lolo's family die of Bangungot...