A pneumothorax can be caused by: 1  Chest injury. Any blunt or penetrating injury to your chest can cause lung collapse. 2  Lung disease. Damaged lung tissue is more likely to collapse. 3  Ruptured air blisters. Small air blisters (blebs) can develop on the top of your lung.  Mechanical ventilation.
Pageant, January 1975. ON THE NIGHT of December 30th, 1971, handsome, 31-year-old Pete Duel left his girlfriend in bed, walked naked into the front room of his house--and blew out his brains. Cerebral destruction, are the grim words of the police report that I read in the office of the local coroner.
Pete Burnsâ Changing Looks: âRight Roundâ Singerâs Plastic Surgery Obsession in His Own Words. Over 35 years after splashing onto the â80s British pop scene as the frontman for Dead or Alive, Pete Burns has died at 57 following a heart attack. The band was set to release a new compilation, Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI, on Oct. 28.