Image courtesy of Microse from DonLaFontaine.com

It was only a week ago today that we first posted about Don LaFontaine’s failing health. Over the past week reports from his family and friends were coming in that sounded hopeful - that sounded like Don was on the mend again. Maybe that’s why it seems harder to write that at 1:50PM on Monday September 1st, 2008, Don LaFontaine passed away from his illness at Cedar Sinai Hospital at the age of 68.

Don’s health has been touch and go over the past year due to throat and lung related illness. The official cause of death is still undetermined but his passing followed complications from Pneumothorax, the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity, the result of a collapsed lung.

More news will surely come out over the following days and in the meantime we can only give our best and send our prayers to Don’s wife Nita, his three girls and all his close friends. A Titan in a world of kings, Don will be missed.