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I have heard from several different people and websites that bob marley had a soccer accident and injured his toe, but for religious reasons wouldnt have it removed. The infection spread throughout his body and died.
But than I also heard that he had either a brain tumor or brain cancer.
And I've even heard he had a cancer in his toe which spread throughout his body and gave him his brain cancer.
PLEASE HELP IM SOOOOO CONFUSED!!!

2007-08-14 18:54:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health Diseases & Conditions Cancer

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BOB MARLEY died of lung, liver, and brain cancer at age 36 on May 11, 1981, in Miami, Florida, shortly after being awarded the Order of Merit by the Jamaican government.-

2007-08-15 02:10:17 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 0 0

Cancer diagnosis

In July 1977, Marley was found to have malignant melanoma in a football wound on his right hallux (big toe). Marley refused amputation, citing worries that the operation would affect his dancing, as well as the Rastafari belief that the body must be "whole":
“ Rasta no abide amputation. I don't allow a man to be dismantled. ”

—From the biography Catch a Fire

Marley may have seen medical doctors as samfai (tricksters, deceivers). True to this belief Marley went against all surgical possibilities and sought out other means that would not break his religious beliefs. He also refused to register a will, based on the Rastafari belief that writing a will is acknowledging death as inevitable, thus disregarding the everlasting character of life.

Collapse and treatment

The cancer then metastasized to Marley's brain, lungs, liver, and stomach. After playing two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of his fall 1980 Uprising Tour, he collapsed while jogging in NYC's Central Park. The remainder of the tour was subsequently cancelled.

Bob Marley played his final concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 23, 1980. The live version of "Redemption Song" on Songs of Freedom was recorded at this show.[5] Marley afterwards sought medical help from Munich specialist Josef Issels, but his cancer had already progressed to the terminal stage.

Death and posthumous reputation

While flying home from Germany to Jamaica for his final days, Marley became ill, and landed in Miami for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981 at the age of 36. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life."[6] Marley received a state funeral in Jamaica, which combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafari tradition. He was buried in a crypt near his birthplace with his Gibson Les Paul, a soccer ball, a marijuana bud, a ring that he wore every day that was given to him by the Prince Asfa Wossen of Ethiopia (eldest son of HIM), and a Bible. A month before his death, he was awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.

2007-08-14 20:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by Natalie Hainsworth 1 · 1 0

He developed cancer in his big toe from an injury he sustained while playing soccer. The cancer metastasized and spread throughout his body. Its all on the official website.

http://web.bobmarley.com/index.jsp

2007-08-14 19:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by deb 5 · 0 0

it was a mole under one of his toe nails and it got infected.


COBRA, THAT WAS MARVIN GAY

2007-08-14 19:03:32 · answer #4 · answered by cincopointganstar 1 · 0 0

he got shot by his father...............

2007-08-14 19:01:58 · answer #5 · answered by Twinkie Thief 7 · 0 2

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