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| Greg Knox, 44, served two tours of duty in Iraq. |
Greg Knox, 44, a life-long resident of Tulsa, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday afternoon while checking his Facebook news feed.
According to friends, Knox, a veteran and father of three, used Facebook sparingly. "Greg was the kind of guy who put family first and he thought that Facebook was an unnecessary distraction," said life-long friend Peter Mikaelson. "Still, he was vulnerable to the things that we are all vulnerable to," said Mikaelson's wife Penny. "Every once in awhile he'd share a picture of a cute kitten or an inspirational quote, even if it was only inspirational to him."
The cause of death was released on Sunday evening after an autopsy. "When we examined Mr. Knox, we found that he died of a massive heart attack. Being a relatively young man and very healthy otherwise, we decided to check the environmental conditions around him at his time of death," said Tulsa coroner Paul Blanton.
Upon checking Knox's laptop, Blanton discovered that the last thing that the victim had viewed on his laptop was a meme on Facebook imploring people to "Like & Share this post for heart disease awareness."
"Apparently Greg made the fatal mistake of not sharing the meme with his friends, and God or the Universe or whatever you believe in struck him down for not doing so," said his wife Lisa.
Tulsa's emergency responders as well as politicians are now imploring those who use Facebook to Like and Share every meme that exhorts them to do so.
From Our Tulsa Bureau
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