Music
2007-08-30 04:41:49 · 7 answers · asked by pembertonkaleem 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
Government Official Agent Like His Songs Would Say
Or Just Cancer To The Head And Lungs Problem…
2007-08-30 04:52:05 · answer #1 · answered by Joe Red 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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." 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. 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." 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.
2007-08-30 04:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by sanguis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He developed cancer from a football wound in his foot and the doctors encouraged him to have the toe removed. However, his so called rastafarian religion encouraged him to believe that doctors were witch doctors and couldn't be trusted. So the cancer ended up spreading to the rest of his body. By the time he decided to get treatment it was too late.
Urban mythology says he was injected with cancer by jamaican government people to silence his music.
2007-08-30 04:56:58 · answer #3 · answered by Tasha C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Wikipedia the free encyclopedia on the net!
Hope i helped!
2007-08-30 04:53:44 · answer #4 · answered by posh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancerous brain tumor. He was only 36!
2007-08-30 04:49:31 · answer #5 · answered by ga.peach67 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancer of the lungs and some where elese in his body
2007-08-30 04:46:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
DONT YOU MEAN DIED!
2007-08-30 05:02:54 · answer #7 · answered by ..: aubrey :.. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋