I was amazed that he outlived Farrah Fawcett. Apparently, Patrick Swayze was a wonderful human being who touched so many lives. Whoopi Goldberg, (his co-star on Ghost) said on The View that he was responsible for getting her the part in ghost. Apparently, she was not selected and he insisted that she should play the role. She fondly remembers when he teased her on the set of Ghost by "mooning her" all the time. She tried to fight back the tears when she announced that Patrick Swayze was the one who got her the role in Ghost and he was the one who is responsible for her receiving an Academy Award. This is the first time I saw the comical Whoopi in tears. I hope his family are at peace with his death.
The controversy started. Suzanne Somers said Patrick did not die of cancer but died of "poising" due to chemotherapy. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991 and rejected chemotherapy in favor of natural treatments. She said: