You can understand why if you think about how division and multiplication are related. 12 divided by 6 is 2 because 6 times 2 is 12 12 divided by 0 is x would mean that 0 times x = 12 But no value would work for x because 0 times any number is 0. So division by zero doesn't work.
At the time of his death, Keith was suffering from emphysema and terminal lung cancer, as well as mourning the recent gunshot suicide of his 27-year-old daughter, Daisy Keith, ten weeks earlier. He committed suicide after he returned from a stay at a hospital.
Report Abuse. John Coltrane died of liver cancer on June 17, 1967. His heavy heroin and alcohol use in the 1940s and 1950s probably were the root causes. Heavy drinking in particular can cause liver damage.