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Chris Rosati, who suffered from ALS, died yesterday after a few more hours of suffering when he decided to have doctors remove the tracheal tube that helped him breathe and stay alive.
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Tag: ALS
Ken Brown, of Champlin, was running out of time for a dying wish last spring when the University of Minnesota provided a special commencement ceremony so he could see his son, Collin, get his diploma.
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John Sylvester died last Friday. Sylvester, who played professional soccer for the Minnesota Thunder and was coaching director for Minneapolis United, was diagnosed several years ago with ALS. Could it get any worse for a family?
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U of M engineering student Collin Brown got his diploma yesterday after university president Eric Kaler agreed to hold the ceremony early so that Brown’s dad could see his son get a diploma. Read more →
Betsy Davis took her own life about a month after a California law took effect that declared that she had a right to. She had ALS, and so she gathered her friends for a two-day party that ended with her under a hillside canopy, saying goodbye to the friends who showed up. Read more →
Chris Rosati isn’t the first person with ALS to declare himself ‘the luckiest man on earth.’ Read more →
When former NFL player Steve Gleason’s son, Rivers, was born, he began a series of personal video journals ‘as a way of sharing my life, who I am, and love for him,’ he writes. Read more →
Last spring, a man with ALS gave two girls he didn’t know $50 with the instruction to do some good with it.
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Over the summer, North Carolina TV news anchor Larry Stogner was among the thousands of people who took the ‘ice bucket challenge’ to call attention to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Then he was diagnosed with ALS. Read more →
If there was must-viewing in Minnesota over the weekend, Cathy Wurzer’s interview with Bruce Kramer on TPT’s Almanac was it. Read more →
Take a long look at this picture of former Minnesota Viking Orlando Thomas. Read more →
Honored guests surprised MPR’s Cathy Wurzer at the State Fair. Read more →