"The tragic and comic component of this whole situation is that I caught a disease, which (let's not say how and why) makes a man quite stinky," Suchilin wrote, according to a translation from the original Russian....
July 2, 2018
"A man whose overpowering odor caused a Transavia Airlines flight to make an emergency landing in Portugal last month has died from tissue necrosis..."
"The passenger has been identified as 58-year-old Russian rock guitarist Andrey Suchilin," CBS News reports.
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The tragic and comic component of this whole situation is that I caught a disease, which (let's not say how and why) makes a man quite stinky
When I first read that, I thought the let's not say how and why referred to catching the disease instead of referring to makes a man quite stinky.
Got me to wondering what he had been up to.
Leave it to a Russian to see the comic side of it.
In an episode of Married With Children, Al Bundy is on an airplane. When he takes his shoes off, the oxygen masks come down.
Prayers up. I admire his ability to find the humor in a dreadful situation.
"When I first read that, I thought the let's not say how and why referred to catching the disease instead of referring to makes a man quite stinky. Got me to wondering what he had been up to."
Me too!!
Dying Human tissue stinks. Probably a consequence of intravenous drug use.
It probably was necrotizing fasciitis. Given that he was a rock guitarist it makes sense when you read the risk factors.
Isn't this likely due to injection of drugs using contaminated needles? I saw a TV report on this being a growing problem in Russia.
A story I read said he infected by a flesh eating virus, and the smell was his rotting skin.
A century ago nearly everyone would have recognized the smell of gangrenous tissues.
Poor guy. Talk about adding insult to injury.
Transavia airlines has just the right name for such an incident, too, doesn't it?
He asked to be identified only as "President Pee Pee."
My younger brother (now passed away) contracted necrotizing fasciitis on Vancouver Island some 15 years ago. British Columbia and Vancouver Island have a relatively high incidence of such cases. Doctors there are familiar with the disease and can respond promptly.
At its fastest pace it can eat an inch of flesh an hour. He was hospitalized for several weeks in Victoria and ultimately flown home on a medical jet to the Bay Area where he lived. The disease was ultimately stopped and some flesh regrew, but the wound never completely healed. He ultimately died of other causes a dozen years later. I can imagine that doctors in the Canary Islands and in Portugal don't see very many cases--so the initial diagnosis can be wrong.
It's well known that Transavians bathe only once every fortnight, so this passenger must've been especially stinky.
Wasn’t Johnny Depp just over in Russia, slinging his electric guitar?. He’s looking mighty slim these days.
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