Comedian Bernie Mac Dies at 50

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On Aug 1, Mac was admitted to a hospital at Northwestern Memorial

hospital with pneumonia......

30 years of hard work, Mac says, caused him to " miss out on so much,

you know, and you live in all these hotels – I was on the road 47 weeks

out of the year...

In February 2005, Mac, then 47, revealed that for the previous two

decades he had suffered from sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease that

causes inflammation in organs such as the lungs or lymph nodes. " It has

not altered or limited my lifestyle, " he said at the time.

(http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20216986,00.html)