The Please Give My Character A Fatal Disease Post!

[charisma]

Hi - meet Gus, an aging rockstar in his mid-forties. During the band's heyday (they were a hair metal band in the late 80s) he spent a lot of time boozing and doing a wide variety of mind-altering substances along with the rest of his band

Comments

[firecrackergrrl]

Attack his junk maybe? Prostate or testicular cancer?

Or it could be out of control diabetes which can lead to amputation, blindness, etc.

[derylykt]

How about lupus?

It's not universally fatal, with the "survival rate" being about 80-90%, but there are cases where the lupus attacks an organ, and those numbers diminish dramatically. People with lupus can work and live normal lives, but flareups of the disease can cause fatigue, sores, etc. A flareup could get progressively worse as the tour wears on.

Just a thought.

[abusesink]

Mesothelioma - a cancer brought-on by exposure to asbestos, often with no symptoms until decades after the exposure (character could have worked on car brakes when in teens or twenties). Killed Warren Zevon, Steve McQueen.

Hodgkin's Disease.

[kvschwartz]

In your final plea, did you mean "inflict" or "afflict"?

[charisma]

Afflict . Or inflict it upon him, I suppose. =)