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    Ohio man dies 2 months after winning $5M lottery

    LOGAN, Ohio (AP) — A southern Ohio man who had hoped to use a $5 million lottery prize he won in June to pay for treatment for kidney failure has died.

    The Logan Daily News (http://bit.ly/ojItGL ) reports that 54-year-old Phillip Withem of Logan died Tuesday at his home. His cause of death wasn't immediately available.

    The newspaper reports that Withem hoped to use that money to help with health issues, including kidney failure.

    Withem was entered into the state's Top Prize Drawing after he won $2,500 off a $20 instant ticket he purchased at a Speedway gas station in Logan in 2006. Winning Ohio instant lottery tickets on games that sell for $5 or more are entered into a drawing after the game ends.

    Withem then won $5 million in the Top Prize Drawing.

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    Information from: Logan Daily News, http://www.logandaily.com

     

    519 comments

    • Seattlegirl  •  9 mths ago
      I think this is terribly sad. Sad he couldn't enjoy his winnings, sadder that he couldn't get treatment.
    • Mimi  •  9 mths ago
      Life is good! Then...out of nowhere...you die. Moral of the story: live everyday, in a mental state, as if you have already won the lottery. Then, by chance you win, that is all just gravy.
      • Ellie 9 mths ago
        Understand this parable ?.......twice born and once to die!
      • BORED 9 mths ago
        couldn't have said it better!!!
    • yyz  •  9 mths ago
      That's sad. I guess good health IS really something money can't buy.
    • GeGe  •  9 mths ago
      If a person gets a Terminal Disease that money cant fix. Then the money means nothing at all.
      • Topper 9 mths ago
        GeGe you are 100% right if all it took was money to stay alive that Walmart guy would still be breathing among other dead billionaires.
      • Mel G 9 mths ago
        Amen, I was thinking the same thing. What good are worldly possessions if you don't have the good health to enjoy them? What good is it to have a awesome looking woman/man if you don't have sight to see them with? We should always be thankful for good health, and the use of our body.
      • GeGe 9 mths ago
        Amen to that Mel Also to Bruno.
    • dbcooper  •  9 mths ago
      everday i'm able to get out of bed and spend time with friends makes me feel like i won some kind of lottery
    • Nancy AsianFTy  •  9 mths ago
      Money aside, I would have made sure everyday of his life was the best day ever.
      • LARRY H 9 mths ago
        How can you make every day of your life the best when death is at your door. Nice thought but not very well thought out.
      • correctionsofignorance 9 mths ago
        I would love to make sure every day of your life is the best ever, you look amazing! Dinner? movie? marriage?
      • correctionsofignorance 9 mths ago
        Coming to los angles for a jewelry and watch show, wanna hook up?
    • not2day  •  9 mths ago
      If you are healthy~ YOU ARE RICH!
      • Jeanne 9 mths ago
        Amen to that.
      • Tom 9 mths ago
        If you are rich, you are healthy-fixed that one for you. Obviously if this guy was well-to do with good health insurance, he wouldn't have been on death's door. So sad, but you know it's true.
      • John 9 mths ago
        I have diabetes, gout,high blood pressureand trauma induced arthritis in most of my body. I am one broke S.O.B. I guess. At least I'm alive, yippee.
    • out a here!  •  9 mths ago
      Sorry to hear this. Watch all the roaches come out of the woodworks now.
    • julie  •  9 mths ago
      Sad story. RIP.
    • Jimmyp25  •  9 mths ago
      Money may buy happiness, but it cannot buy eternal life....
    • Ironhorse  •  9 mths ago
      R.I.P. Phillip Withem, you don't need the earth's fiat money system anymore, nor have to deal w/ crooked govt. and lying thieving people. Heaven doesn't have such....
    • avg.citizen  •  9 mths ago
      Many people awaiting organ donations. He probably was waiting his turn, and passed away before they could find him a kidney.
    • Carol  •  9 mths ago
      well at least he made it 2 months, alanis's version he died the next day...I hope his surviving family gets to keep whats left to pay for funeral expenses and lingering doctor bills but I bet the govt. will find some way to swindle it out of them
    • Ron  •  9 mths ago
      This is sad. Just hope he made arrangments for the money to go where he wanted it to. I remember him saying he had no children. RIP.
    • Peg  •  9 mths ago
      It would be nice if the lottery would look into his possible spouse, kids, or grandkids if any & still payout that money! This is so sad! May Phillip live happily in a place that is now priceless!
    • iCthruU  •  9 mths ago
      That is one of the saddest stories. Even the money could not alter his final destination. RIP
    • jo  •  9 mths ago
      He has more riches in Heaven than he could ever have here on Earth...I assure you, he has his Golden Ticket and isn't looking back :) Prayers to his family and loved ones that are left behind.
    • Roman  •  9 mths ago
      Some people say "money cant buy you health" I think that if he had that money early on....he could had treated his kidney or at least go on dialysis
    • w.ebey  •  9 mths ago
      so very sad
    • clint  •  9 mths ago
      I don't get it? He won in 2006, was entered in the drawing, but just got the money in June...Of 2011? Maybe if Ohio was a little more on the ball he would be alive. But, that's what the corrupt lottery officials want, you take the payout and wait 20 years to get YOUR money, and they only end up paying you a little of the interest they make off YOUR money. You take a lump sum, they #$%$ all at once. I bet a lot more people than we know die before the 20 years is up. I've read that you cannot leave the balance to relatives, also.
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