He was on a new medication huh?   And again, i have to be very careful about how my words seem, i am not making fun, but the pattern is just odd...........some of these might have been accidents, again, investigate, i doubt this was an accident, but re examining means investigate,,,,,,,playing devil's advocate, not assuming one way or the other.......look deeper........i remember about a year ago, maybe like 9 months, where a black man on death row, i think in Oklahoma..........was given "new medication combinations", ones "that had never been tested on a human being before"......the man suffered for an hour, writhing on the chair after the 3 injections.............1st of all i am against the death penalty, 2nd of all, i do not think that the time to try 3 new injections is then...............this is beyond disgusting.........




Speaking of a heartbreaking moment between her younger sister, Rhonda, and the 50-year-old actor-comedian – who succumbed to complications from pneumonia in a Chicago hospital at 2 a.m. Saturday – Mary Ann Grossett says that the night before Mac died, "He struggled for his life. He couldn't breathe.

"He opened his eyes on his own and looked at Rhonda. She called his name, and he opened his eyes and nodded to her. She smiled at him and told him, 'Don't leave me … 'I'm waiting for you to come back.' He shrugged his shoulders, and she said that's when she knew he was tired. He signaled to her that his body was tired."

Rhonda, Mac’s wife since 1977, and their 30-year-old daughter, Je'Niece, were with him when he died. "[The doctors] were working on him," says Grossett. "They tried to resuscitate him two times. One time he came back for about an hour. Then he went into cardiac arrest the second time."

Prior to that, the couple had last communicated on July 31. "He told his wife [non-verbally] that he could breathe on his own, and he wanted the ventilator out. He motioned that he wanted it out," says Grossett.

Lung Disease Contributed

The sister-in-law says Mac's inflammatory lung disease contributed to his death. "He had sarcoidosis, but it was in remission," she says. "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."