Jim Hutton, 60, partner of the late Freddie Mercury
Matthew Kruk
From GayNZ.com
International Daily News
Freddie Mercury's partner dies
By GayNZ.com Daily News staff
9th January 2010 - 06:54 pm
The partner of the late Freddie Mercury died on New Year's Day and was
laid to rest in Ireland yesterday.
Jim Hutton died after a battle with cancer, just three days short of his
61st birthday.
He lived with Mercury for the last six years of the singer's life and
was present at his bedside when he died in November 1991. Mercury died
from broncho-pneumonia induced by AIDS after publicly acknowledging he
had the disease the day before his death.
Hutton tested positive for HIV in 1990 but didn't tell Mercury for
nearly a year. Hutton was buried in his hometown of Carlow, Ireland.
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: From GayNZ.com
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: International Daily News
: Freddie Mercury's partner dies
: By GayNZ.com Daily News staff
: 9th January 2010 - 06:54 pm
:
: The partner of the late Freddie Mercury died on New Year's Day and was
: laid to rest in Ireland yesterday.
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: Jim Hutton died after a battle with cancer, just three days short of his
: 61st birthday.
Not to be confused with the actor (1934-1979).
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islanders
>
> Not to be confused with the actor (1934-1979).
>
> -=-=-
Since the actor is dead for 30 plus years, confusion is doubtful.
Steve Hayes
So how come he lived 20 years longer than Fereddie Mercury?
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Larc
| On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 00:14:54 -0700, "Matthew Kruk" <nob...@home.com> wrote:
|
| >http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/3/article_8377.php
| >
| >From GayNZ.com
| >
| >International Daily News
| >Freddie Mercury's partner dies
| >By GayNZ.com Daily News staff
| >9th January 2010 - 06:54 pm
| >
| >The partner of the late Freddie Mercury died on New Year's Day and was
| >laid to rest in Ireland yesterday.
| >
| >Jim Hutton died after a battle with cancer, just three days short of his
| >61st birthday.
| >
| >He lived with Mercury for the last six years of the singer's life and
| >was present at his bedside when he died in November 1991. Mercury died
| >from broncho-pneumonia induced by AIDS after publicly acknowledging he
| >had the disease the day before his death.
| >
| >Hutton tested positive for HIV in 1990 but didn't tell Mercury for
| >nearly a year. Hutton was buried in his hometown of Carlow, Ireland.
|
| So how come he lived 20 years longer than Fereddie Mercury?
Being HIV positive is no longer an inevitable route to death. Some people are
living with it for many years and eventually dying of something unrelated.
Larc
Turban Joe Balasootoe
Not so fast--not everyone is as smart as youze.
islanders
> > Since the actor is dead for 30 plus years, confusion is doubtful.
>
> Not so fast--not everyone is as smart as youze.
I know that
Steve Hayes
So was it ever an inevitable route to death?
Larc
| >| >Hutton tested positive for HIV in 1990 but didn't tell Mercury for
| >| >nearly a year. Hutton was buried in his hometown of Carlow, Ireland.
| >|
| >| So how come he lived 20 years longer than Fereddie Mercury?
| >
| >Being HIV positive is no longer an inevitable route to death. Some people are
| >living with it for many years and eventually dying of something unrelated.
|
| So was it ever an inevitable route to death?
Probably not, but at one time it was thought to be. Medical scientists involved
with AIDS research were earlier surprised to find some people had been living
with HIV without having it develop into AIDS longer than they originally
anticipated anybody would.
Perhaps I misunderstood your earlier question about why Jim Hutton lived 20
years longer than Freddie Mercury. Was there any particular reason other than
HIV/AIDS that caused your question about why he would have lived that much
longer?
Larc
Brigid Nelson
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:34:34 +0200, Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> | >| >Hutton tested positive for HIV in 1990 but didn't tell Mercury for
> | >| >nearly a year. Hutton was buried in his hometown of Carlow, Ireland.
> | >|
> | >| So how come he lived 20 years longer than Fereddie Mercury?
> | >
> | >Being HIV positive is no longer an inevitable route to death. Some people are
> | >living with it for many years and eventually dying of something unrelated.
> |
> | So was it ever an inevitable route to death?
>
> Probably not, but at one time it was thought to be. Medical scientists involved
> with AIDS research were earlier surprised to find some people had been living
> with HIV without having it develop into AIDS longer than they originally
> anticipated anybody would.
It would be interesting to see statistics on the average time between
aquisition of HIV and the progression to full-blown AIDS. There might be
some data from African countries. Annecdotally speaking, most of the
people I knew (in the mid 80's) who were HIV+ didn't find out until they
were actually sick and dying from AIDs related complications. I did know
of one who survived for at least 10 years after his partner died and
didn't "get sick" during that time. I've since lost touch and have no
idea how it turned out.
b
Steve Hayes
No other reason -- it's just that it seems to be conventional wisdom that HIV
eventually develops into Aids, and that Aids is incurable and invariably
fatal, though it can be controlled by antiretrovirals. One would have expected
him to have died several yrars ago, if that were the case.
PyrateJohn
for HIV in 1991 and appears to be going strong to this day.
--PirateJohn--
www.PirateJohn.com