What Killed Billy Mays?

Update: The Tampa, Florida coroner said today that the cause of Billy Mays death was not a blow to the head. Instead, he died from advanced heart disease.

I was shocked to hear that cable TV pitchman Billy Mays has died at the age of 50. Like Michael Jackson only a few days earlier, Billy Mays died at a very young age. There are more questions than answers right now as to what caused the death of Billy Mays, but some people that shared an airline flight with Mays yesterday back to his hometown of Tampa Bay, Florida said that Billy suffer a hard hit to the head after the flight he was traveling on made a hard landing after one the of jet aircraft's tires blew out while landing.

Apparently, a large item of some kind came out of the over head luggage compartment when the jet that Billy May's was traveling on made a hard landing at the Tampa Bay airport yesterday. Like Natasha Richardson before him, Billy Mays seemed to be fine right after being struck in the head and even made a comment to some of the other passengers on the flight that he had a pretty hard head. While it is possible that Billy Mays died from some other cause, the time line between when he was struck in the head late yesterday and his death this morning does suggest to me that he may have suffered the same kind of head injury as Natasha Richardson a few months ago.

During his short life, Billy Mays was seen by hundreds of millions of people around the world on short TV commercials sometimes referred to as infomercials. Billy Mays is best know for a commercial for OxiClean, but in more recent days I have seen Billy promoting other products on TV for health insurance. The death of Billy Mays came as a shock to most people, including myself who though I would be hearing his loud voice on television commercials for years to come. However, just like Michael Jackson - Billy Mays is dead at the age of 50, which is scary to me because I am that same age.

Right now, it is turning out of be a black summer as famous people from all walks of life are dying from a variety of causes. The middle part of June could go down in history as one of the most deathly periods of time for celebrities as the deaths of David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and now Billy Mays all occurred within a few weeks. One of my most popular blog posts is called "Celebrities Die In Threes?", where one person has already commented today that the death of Billy Mays will probably be followed by another famous death sometime in the near future.

Title: What Killed Billy Mays?
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