Saunders

Terrible news. I think it was something to do with  his lungs? Thought I seen that mentioned on Twitter.

He said he had blood clots on his lungs, which is super unusual, but the way he was talking as recently as yesterday, he wasn't too concerned about it.  Terrible, shocking news to find out this morning that he had passed. 

My father had a quadruple bypass, tried to take time off to rest (though his bosses at his job kept pestering him and made him even come in a week or so after he went to the hospital), and sure enough, a blood clot found its way to his aorta, and he was gone in a few minutes (I think they call this a Widowmaker Heart Attack).

It's a real blow to the stomach when the prognosis looks rather good, and then something like this happens. But it sounds Mr. Towle was also working from the hospital bed, and sometimes the best thing one can do is know when to lay low and rest up...but for some personalities, that's almost asking the impossible.