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[edit] His funeral
Just out of morbid curiosity, how was his funeral handled? Smerdis of Tlön 14:04, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I'd say closed casket.66.41.66.213 (talk) 01:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Radium Poisoning
According to this article, Byers has been marketing and personally consuming a lot of "Radithor" water containing approximately 2 microcurie of Radium per portion, three times a day. Byers disease and death raised public concerns about safety of radioactive waters consumption. However the theory of radium poisoning seems to be disproved. Apparently Byers died from blood diseases while no other patient that was consuming Radithor has ever suffered from anything similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.149.224.78 (talk) 12:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
- Those claims were made by the very physician responsible; an explanation rather obviously concocted to protect his professional reputation. The article itself states "Radithor is one of the few radioactive quack cures that can be unambiguously linked to someone's death" and does not directly dispute any of the information in the main article. Danny Darko (talk) 16:16, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Trivial mention
No place for this in the article, but I thought I'd mention that P. N. Elrod's novel Bloodlist mentions Byers' death obliquely in the sentence: Only four years ago there was a case of a Pittsburgh man who died horribly from ingesting a quack medicine containing radioactive salts. --Auric (talk) 14:22, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
