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Atleast our brother isn't suffering anymore. When people are in the last stages of a debilating disease, sometimes it's best that they make that transition rather than continuing to "hold on". Too often it's the family that keeps them when they are ready to go. I was having a conversation about him with a doctor yesterday and we were talking about how he...like so many other boxers....took repeated blows to the head. But Ali was especially famous for his "rope a dope" where he just took so much punishment in order to wear his opponent down. Most of these boxers don't know that many of those blows give the brain "mini-concussions" that turn out to affect them later on in life. I also believe all of the pain killers Ali and other professional atheletes take contributes to the neurological problems so many of them develop after their careers. When there's millions of dollars and championships at stake, a lot of young people will readily put their health at risk and push past the pain with medications for a temporary boost not caring (or knowing) about the drastic effects it may have on them later on in life. Concussion....the movie in which Will Smith played a doctorr who investigated brain injuries related to NFL players could have just as easily been done about boxers.