9 years ago, on this day, he was diagnosed with AIDS.

RIP CHUCK

uhmmmm whuuuuut?

wasnt it brain cancer????

They claimed the cause of death was pneumonia, actually.

Wow, where have I heard this before?

afaggotsayswhat???

this thread wasn't funny last time, either.

Ah, if it's not funny, it's not true! hipsters talk that way but Dave, I know you're not a hipster.

seriously, aren't we all forgetting what happened last year when ian mackaye got run over outside of a show?

RIP, ian, you will always be out of step in our hearts

Ian Mackaye is Emo jesus, and all emo after him is Emo Saul.

Science knows that many HIV-infected individuals like Chuck Schuldiner die of "pneumonia" as the final stage of their full-blown AIDS:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15735422/