Modified On August 9, 2008
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Bernie Mac has died at the age of 50 in a Chicago hospital. He had been suffering from pneumonia. We posted in 2006 that Mac had been diagnosed in 1983 with sarcoidosis. Mac’s publicist had been denying that his recent troubles were serious and had been predicting his imminent release from the hospital. Sarcoidosis attacks the lungs and the immune system.