Mr. Conaway had been placed into an induced coma as a result of pneumonia related complications and the degenerative brain condition known as encephalopthy.
Mr. Conaway was famous for starring as Kenickie in Grease, Bobby Wheeler in the television show Taxi as well as starring in Babylon 5 and The Bold and The Beautiful.
Throughout his career however, Mr. Conaway battled with drug and alcohol addiction, which he claimed began after incurring a back injury during the filming of Grease.
It's actually extremely sad how many talented actors/actresses die from substance abuse related problems. Scratch that, it's sad how many people in any profession, in any place across the world, die each day from substance abuse.
And as hard as you try to tell somebody that it's not good for them, or try to convince them that it will kill them, humans always like to think in the, "it won't happen to me" mentality.
And then they die.
Like I said, it's sad really.
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