Illness and Death
Overweight during most of his adult life, White suffered from various health problems especially in his final years. In particular, years of living with chronic high blood pressure and diabetes caught up with him, and he suffered kidney failure in the fall of 2002. While undergoing dialysis and awaiting a kidney transplant, he suffered a stroke in May 2003, which forced him to retire from public life.
At around 9:30 on the morning of July 4, 2003, White died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering from total renal failure. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered by his family off the California coast. On September 20, 2004, he was posthumously inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York.
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