By now you’ve probably heard that actor/comedian Bernie Mac has died at the shockingly young age of 50. While he’s in the past suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that manifests in tiny lumps on the body’s organs, his publicist claims that the sarcoidosis went in remission back in 2005, and he died of unrelated complications of pneumonia.

I don’t buy it, that can’t be the real reason Bernie Mac died, healthy 50 year olds don’t just die from pneumonia.

More likely, just as his publicist lied earlier in the week that Bernie was getting better, the publicist also is lying about Mac’s death being related to his previously disclosed immune system disorder. But why the publicist would lie about it, I have no idea.

Anyway, regardless of why he died, whenever Mac finished a show people went there goes a funny man, there goes a well dressed man.

He will be missed.

UPDATE: Bernie’s sister-in-law confirms to People Magazine, that sarcoidosis  was indirectly responsible for his death:

He had sarcoidosis, but it was in remission … But because he had it, his immune system was compromised. He had an infection … He was on a new medication that suppresses the immune system, and that’s where the pneumonia came from.

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