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.
(CNN)Pete Burns, lead singer of the 1980s British pop band Dead or Alive, has died. He was 57. All of his family and friends are devastated by the loss of our special star, the statement read. A native of England, Burns was working in a record store before he founded a musical group called the Nightmares in Wax in Liverpool in 1979.