R.I.P. Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)

Sad news coming out of Los Angeles, star Patrick Swayze has lost the fight against pancreatic cancer.  He was 57 years old.  In January 2008, Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He had been undergoing chemotherapy at the Stanford University Medical Center in California.  Even after his diagnosis, Swayze continued to shoot a television series for A&E, “The Beast,” in which he played a rogue undercover FBI agent. In an interview with Barbara Walters in 2008, he said he refused painkillers while shooting and had only missed a day-and-a-half of the show’s filming schedule.

“If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I’ve tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself,” Swayze told Walters, when asked why he decided to do the show. “And that keeps me going, that gets me up in the morning. My work … is my legacy.”  -Patrick Swayze; he will be missed.