Well wrote on June 11, 2009 05:53 PM: If he's a Christian, it couldn't have been an overdose.

PK Smith wrote on June 11, 2009 02:43 PM: dear Gans Fan,

Danny Gans was probably all of the wonderful things you say. that does not mean he couldn't have been addicted to drugs, or at least abusing them (the definition of abuse is using them in any way other than prescribed way). addiction does not discriminate. we are all eligible. it has nothing to do with character, status in life, money, fame or any of the rest of it.
I speak from experience. I am a teacher, a good citizen and 21 years sober. I got to be an alcoholic despite all the good things about me.
hopefully this old myth of addiction being a character flaw can be dispelled a bit more by this incident.
on another note, many of us who have written about this are not judging Mr Gans. rather we are disgusted with the coroner for thinking we are all so gullible as to fall for his medical explanation. take a lesson from the Sheriff in the recent tragic car accident. he manned-up and when the facts were in, he told the truth.

Gans Fan wrote on June 11, 2009 02:12 PM: It is a sad commentary on the state of our society that people cannot believe that someone as good as Danny could have had a reaction to a medication that caused his death. Why are so many of you trying to make him out to be a drug addict that overdosed? Why can't you accept the fact that he was a decent, loving Christian person who was incredibly talented. Why try to make him out to be a drug addict. And to Norm Clark, I am surprised & disappointed that you made the comparison to Elvis who we all know had a drug problem. Please leave Danny's memory and family alone. Enough is enough.

Well wrote on June 11, 2009 08:48 AM: Lookie, the Sun has some balls! Even more logic right here: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/11/report-raises-questions-pain-specialists/

Physician says "He overdosed. Plain and simple."

It's ok to love the guy BUT HE OVERDOSED.

RickyBobby wrote on June 11, 2009 08:10 AM: He overdosed on skullpoppers. So sad.

Well wrote on June 11, 2009 01:41 AM: If you don't have cancer and you are taking cancer medicine (that's 5x more powerful than morphine) and you die it's an OD. ALL UNAUTHORIZED PHARMACEUTICAL DEATHS ARE ACCIDENTS. But let's call a spade a spade. Danny died from doing something he wasn't supposed to do.

For those of you trying to scold people for making this point, back up your opinion with logic. Great person or not, he died from misuse of a type 2 narcotic.

SRK wrote on June 10, 2009 09:28 PM: Thank you Steve T.. well said Mr Gans has done so much for Vegas and does not deserve these type of comments. I guess they are building up their own shortfalls by trying to knock down someone who has done some good for us as a community. Idiots

Steve T wrote on June 10, 2009 04:15 PM: To all you self righteous jerks with your rants about what you claim is a fact that he ODed, all I can say is have you done as much for the community as he did? Sure it doesn't make a wrong right (if there is even a wrong there), but we all have feet of clay and can stumble. You have no clue how he got to where he was. A wise man said take the board out of your own eye before you try to take the dust speck out of someone else's eye.

Ken wrote on June 10, 2009 03:19 PM: Does it really matter, Kevin, if people put IMHO before their rant on Gans overdose? If anyone believes for a minute that there is any point of reference behind these comments then they are troubled. Especially if they need IMHO to be written so they can say, "Oh, it's just their opinion."

Oh and Jennifer, it does come out of our pocket. Insurance rates rise for everyone when people make claims for benefits they are not entitled to.

Gans may have been a great person but he messed up big time and insurance should not be paid if it is determined that he recklessly popped pills. The coroner tried to put a positive spin on it but I guarantee the insurance company won't.

vegas resident wrote on June 10, 2009 03:17 PM: While I am sad for the family, I have to ask myself, Was Danny thinking of them or himself???

What he was taking is a comfort drug for cancer patients in their last days, not golfers at 3am home alone. Unless he was (it appears he wasnt) trained and very knowlegable about the use of opiates he wouldnt have used too much of it or any for that matter the are better alternatives.

No matter how nicely they word it the facts are the same, he used a drug that was related to his premature death. Was his pain that bad that nite? It dosent appear that he called for his wife to help him before he ingested the drugs and was having difficulties with his breathing.

I'd love to see the toxicology report and see how close he was to the "LD 50" levels of Dilaudid in his blood were. The term refers to the LD50 or median lethal dose, a pharmacology term meaning the dose amount of a medicine required to kill 50% of a tested population. If we knew that number then there would be a basis to determine weather Mr. Gans Od'ed or if it was as they described it so nicely in the media. (cough cough).


Its a terrible loss either way, and there is a lession to be learned, lots of lessions, but sadly they wont. Elvis (remember him) had a liking for Dilaudid 40 years ago, things people do...

just another voice in the vally that will go unnoticed....my best to the family....

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