why did harold hunter died?
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The New York Post reports that it was an apparent cocaine overdose.
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I cannot find anywhere where they actually say they found out what caused them to die.  One possibility was that sonar used by an american naval ship threw them off course.  \n\nI'm guessing...due to lack of interest in the results...that that might be the case because if it were anything else, I think the results would be posted everywhere!
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The power of internet rumors are what killed him. He is in fact not dead of an intentional heroin overdose as an email circulating around the 'net would have you believe. This rumour started from a story on Broken Newz which was suppose to be taken as satire.\n\nAnything else is just wishful thinking.
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Yes, it is such a huge loss. He was a very talented man. My prayers go out to his family, especially the children.
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that's very sad. i'm sorry to hear that\n\ni actually don't even know who lavert is, but everyone seems to be dying... what's going on\n\np.s. it's less ironic, more of a coincidence.
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Maybe you can tell from the picture.\n\nCarlos Norman Hathcock II (May 20, 1942–February 23, 1999) was a Marine sniper during the Vietnam War. He was the subject of two biographies, Marine Sniper and Silent Warrior, both by Charles Henderson.\nHathcock was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 20, 1942 and died on February 23, 1999 in Virginia Beach, Virginia after a long fight with multiple sclerosis.\nContents\n [hide]\n1 USMC career\n2 Civilian life\n3 Legacy\n4 External link\n[edit]\nUSMC career\n\nBefore his deployment to Vietnam he won many shooting championships, including the prestigious Wimbledon Cup—long-range shooting's most prestigious prize — in 1965. A year later he was sent to Vietnam.\nWidely recognized as the Marines' most proficient sniper, Hathcock had killed a confirmed 93 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong personnel. His actual total is believed to be well over 100, which the official count does not reflect. North Vietnam even put a bounty of $50,000 on his life, which was far more than other bounties put on U.S. snipers —typically only $50-$100 USD. The Viet Cong called him Long Trang, "the white feather sniper," because he always wore one in the band of his bush hat and only removed it once while stalking an NVA General.\nHis work demanded steady nerves and was exhausting. During one pursuit of an NVA general, he had to cover more than 1,000 meters of open terrain during three days and nights of constant crawling an inch at a time. Enemy patrols came within 20 feet of Hathcock, who lay camouflaged with grass and vegetation in the open. Late in life, he was awarded a Silver Star —the third-highest honor —for an incident that occurred nearly 30 years earlier, in which he killed 16 North Vietnamese soldiers.\nHathcock's career as a sniper came to a sudden end outside Khe Sanh in 1969, when the amphibious tractor he was riding on struck an anti-tank mine. Hathcock pulled seven marines off the flame-engulfed vehicle before jumping to safety. As was his way, he rejected any commendation for his bravery. He came out of the attack with severe burns over ninety percent of his body, forty nine percent of which were third-degree burns. He was evacuated to Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, where he underwent 13 skin graft operations. The nature of the injuries left him unable to perform effectively in combat with a rifle.\n[edit]\nCivilian life\n\nAfter returning from active duty, Hathcock helped establish a scout and sniper school at the Marine base in Quantico, Virginia. In 1975, Hathcock's health began to deteriorate and he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis —an incurable degenerative nerve disorder. He stayed in the Corps but continued to decline in health and was forced to retire just 55 days short of the 20 years that would have made him eligible for full retirement pay.\nHathcock once said that he survived in his work because of an ability to "get in the bubble," to put himself into a state of "utter, complete, absolute concentration," first on his equipment, then on his environment in which every breeze and every leaf meant something, and finally on his quarry.\nAfter the war, a friend showed Hathcock a passage written by Ernest Hemingway: "Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter." He copied Hemingway's words on a piece of paper. "He got that right," Hathcock said. "It was the hunt, not the killing."\n[edit]\nLegacy\n\nHathcock remains a legend within the U.S. Marines. The Carlos Hathcock Award is presented annually to the Marine who does the most to promote marksmanship. There is also a sniper range named for Hathcock at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.\nIn 1967, Hathcock set a record for the longest combat kill with an Browning M2 .50 BMG machine gun mounting a telescopic sight. The distance was
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Wakin_marman answered a few of my questions as well.  He isn't right in the head.\n\nI am sure that your friend once went to a school, you should have a specialist explain the situation with the death.
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No he died either this year or last year..heart attack I believe
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His middle name was Horace. Not Harold as some think.
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My friend had that. \n\nI'd ask him, but he died.\n\n:)
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His actual cause of death was pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that involves scarring of the lungs. Also, he was extremely overweight and had a history of heart problems so I'm sure that never helped either.
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As far as I know, it was Dick Cheney who shot his hunting partner (it WAS an accident) and they were in Texas. He has since had a heart attack because one of the pellets moved into his heart, but the doctors have said he will be ok and they are not going to operate.
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He died of a heart attack this year - Chris Penn did at least.\nIn the film his squib went off at the wrong time but Tarantino left it in to add mystery
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He was one of the toughest men to ever walk the streets of England. "The Guv'nor" as he was referred to after his third fight against "The Mean Machine" Rory Shaw in 1978 stopping him in the first round with eight unanswered straight right hands to the side of Shaw's head and face, I forgot to mention that this was a bare-knuckle boxing match.\n\n  He was in a few of Guy Ritchies movies and the roles he played didn't stretch too far from the truth. The very mention of "The Guv'nor" would indeed bring grown men to tears and on more than one occasion caused them top soil themselves.\n\nHe died of lung and brain cancer in July 1998.
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Link 1 is a forum devoted to NZ. While they would probably not know your Harold, they would know how to proceed.\n\nIn the US, you'd get Philip's birth certificate, which would tell you he was born April 1, 1933 (or some other date) to Harold J. Greenland of Aukland, aged 30, and Mary J. Smith, aged 28. It might even give you Harold and Mary's birthplaces. That gives you their birth years, to within a year or so.\n\nThen you'd look for Harold's death certificate; if you find one for a Harold born 1902 - 1904, you can assume it might be the one you are after. If you find one for a Harold b. 1890 or 1910, you can dismiss them.\n\nYou'd keep using birth, marriage and death certificates, obituaries, cemetery records, etc. until you got back to the very early 1900's or 1800's, when a wealth of on-line data would be available. \n\nI suspect you do the same in NZ, but the specifics are another matter.
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i completely agree with you...i think the hunters should be beaten to death with clubs so that they know how it feels like to die a painful horrible death...sadly human rights prevent this.
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It may have been Ken Caminitti. He played briefly for the Rangers, and I think he went back to the National League. He did die from a heart attack a few years ago, probably caused by his years of alcohol, drug, and steroid abuse. Sad.