[Baz]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

https://www.today.com/health/real-life-blue-man-dies-after-heart-attack-stroke-4B11243410

Thanks for the link!

Silver has antibacterial properties and has been used to fight infection for thousands of years. But it went out of use when the far more effective penicillin was developed in the 1930s.

Looks like he was a smoker - that probably didn't help:

“He didn’t like to go out in public much -- only when he thought he needed to, like to go to the bank or to pick up tobacco,” she said.