Dash Crofts Is Dead

[toobfreak]

Has no one heard that Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts died yesterday? He was 85 but actually died from complications from some sort of heart surgery he was having and not just "old age" instead. I was never a huge fan of the duo, but they had a lot of good music.

Jim Seals died four years ago at the age of 79 after suffering a stroke in 2017 forcing him into retirement.

Dash Crofts - Wikipedia

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[pknopp]

I didn't see that. I was a fan.

I won a radio call in based upon them.

"what is the first names of Seals and Croft"

 

[lg325]

They put out the type of songs needed for that violent time in the world.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[1srelluc]

Consider this, if your are 85 and have a heart condition, it really does not matter if you die of "complications", you died of old age.

 

[toobfreak]

Consider this, if your are 85 and have a heart condition, it really does not matter if you die of "complications", you died of old age.

What I really wondered was what the point was? What is the point of operating on a person's heart at 85 years old? If you have some condition bad enough to require heart surgery at that age:

1. The strain of just the surgery alone could likely kill a person at that age.
2. Healing and recovering from such surgery at that age will be long, slow, and difficult.
3. What will the surgery do, add a few years to his life so he lives to be 89? At that age, if the heart doesn't get you, likely something else will shortly thereafter. I might have opted just to live out my life naturally without going through the pain, expense and risk of heart surgery just to add 6 months or 2 more years to my life.

 

[HikerGuy83]

What I really wondered was what the point was? What is the point of operating on a person's heart at 85 years old? If you have some condition bad enough to require heart surgery at that age:

1. The strain of just the surgery alone could likely kill a person at that age.
2. Healing and recovering from such surgery at that age will be long, slow, and difficult.
3. What will the surgery do, add a few years to his life so he lives to be 89? At that age, if the heart doesn't get you, likely something else will shortly thereafter. I might have opted just to live out my life naturally without going through the pain, expense and risk of heart surgery just to add 6 months or 2 more years to my life.

You can say the same thing about chemo in older patients.

 

[toobfreak]

You can say the same thing about chemo in older patients.

Yeah, probably. At some point, I suspect some of this medical treatment becomes more an attempt by the medical community to experiment, test and try out stuff just to see how it works or to just milk the insurance companies and buoy profits.

I mean, what is the point of doing a high-risk million dollar operation on a person already 86 years old to extend their living farther? Statistically, not many people live that old, fewer live to be 90, and much fewer live to be 95 or 100.

So had the heart surgery succeeded, what might it have bought him, two more years? Five?

 

[HikerGuy83]

Yeah, probably. At some point, I suspect some of this medical treatment becomes more an attempt by the medical community to experiment, test and try out stuff just to see how it works or to just milk the insurance companies and buoy profits.

I mean, what is the point of doing a high-risk million dollar operation on a person already 86 years old to extend their living farther? Statistically, not many people live that old, fewer live to be 90, and much fewer live to be 95 or 100.

So had the heart surgery succeeded, what might it have bought him, two more years? Five?

It's not the years, IME.

It's the quality of life associated with those years.

Five good years is a big deal.

Five years in a bed?......

 

[HikerGuy83]

Has no one heard that Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts died yesterday? He was 85 but actually died from complications from some sort of heart surgery he was having and not just "old age" instead. I was never a huge fan of the duo, but they had a lot of good music.

Jim Seals died four years ago at the age of 79 after suffering a stroke in 2017 forcing him into retirement.

Dash Crofts - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I enjoyed their music.

R.I.P.