> Nothing is said about what killed him... From the article: > If the Plough provided him with a home in Boston and a community that was his own, it also help

> Nothing is said about what killed him... From the article: > If the Plough provided him with a home in Boston and a community that was his own, it also helped him toward his demise. When he died at 60 in 2017, booze played a starring role in his precipitous decline. Later in the article, the author also explicitly states that Richard was an alcoholic.