When is the last time...

........that you heard someone died of "natural causes?"  You don't just die of old age anymore, do you?  Old age is not considered a scientific cause of death, albeit age-associated illnesses and conditions do contribute to death in older persons.  If the "unnatural causes,"   homicide, suicide, accident, or yes, legal execution, did not cause Gary's death, why is the media, enmasse, quoting he died from natural causes, not from complications of surgery, heart attack, kidney failure, Alzheimer's, MRSA, chronic alcoholism,  or contaminated steroid injections.  At the age of 74,  the heart stops beating, and you exit this life, as simple, and natural, as that?    Well, maybe that's how he, or his family, wanted the obit to read.   At least it didn't say he died "surrounded by his family."  That term  never fails to conjure up an image of suffocation.