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R.I.P. Olivia Newton-John

Singer and Actress Olivia Newton-John, who has suffered from cancer for 30 years, has died at age 73. She died peacefully at her home in California, surrounded by her family. All the U.S. obituaries I've read focus only her career.

One article, The brave words with which Olivia Newton-John faced death and reassured her family, from InfoBae, google-translated, adds these details from her niece:

"It wasn't just the cancer, but other complications, being in a hospital and having a very sensitive immune system ," Totti Goldsmith told an Australian channel. “ She had secondary infections. She fell apart in the last five or six days.”

The woman shared that Olivia had turned to medical cannabis to cope with the illness before her death, but her pain level continued to escalate and the medication provided little relief by the end. “ It really helped her, but then it wasn't enough ,” she explained. and she added that Olivia " really struggled through a lot of pain."

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Aware of her aunt's continued discomfort, Totti said she wa.s not surprised to learn of Olivia's death. " It wasn't a surprise, we knew how sick she was ," he noted, " especially the last five days."

....Didi Conn, Olivia's cast partner in "Grease", gave an interview in which she told how the singer's last days were . In dialogue with the Good Morning America program, the actress revealed that her great friend “could no longer walk. Her husband John and her daughter Chloe were by her side the whole time.”

Her family asks that contributions be made to the alternative cancer treatment foundation she created, the ONG Cancer Center which has helped so many people.

It may be that Olivia Newton-John did not want to be treated with opioids. That's her decision. But for severe pain, most people do require opioids. Strong ones. That doctors now tell you to take ibuprofen after a root canal or minor surgery is a joke. What is not a joke is that today Endo, the Irish company that makes Percocet, announced it was going bankrupt due to the massive number of lawsuits brought against it by state and federal government entities, over its now-discontinued drug Opana. Purdue Pharma LP and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals have done the same thing due to the pre