Posted on 04/22/2018 7:50:39 AM PDT by Voption
Actor Verne Troyer, who was best known for playing Mini-Me in Austin Powers, has died aged 49, according to an official social media post.
Troyer was born in 1969 in Sturgis, Michigan with achondroplasia, a genetic condition that kept him at 2 feet 8 inches (81 centimeter's) tall.
The lesson here is whatever your size that if you smoke, abuse alcohol and use drugs, you will die young.
Mental illness at times seems like the cruelest thing God can give sanction to Satan. It can't touch one's soul but it inflicts unspeakable suffering on the mind. Even the most devout of Christ's followers can succumb to the pain.
May he find everlasting peace in the presence of God.
If I were a 2 feet 8 inch adult, I’d take every drug I could get my tiny little hands on.
May he find peace in the Lord.
Constant pain and confined to wheelchair.
And yes, he self-medicated A LOT
He sounds like a delightful person.
Go read some stuff from a couple years ago.
I am glad he became good with God. Redemption is there for everyone.
The condition that caused his dwarfism also causes immune deficiencies and can lead to malignancies. Many people with that condition die from infections as children.
From a medical standpoint, there is no mystery in why he died so young, even if no cause of death has been released.
Very sad.
If you commit suicide while young, you will die young.
"What did you say?"
Hopefully Verne is enjoying heaven with his new eternal body free of defects and limitations. If we all do not reject our God then He will not reject us and will bless us with an eternal blessing.
Short life .. RIP
Amen. Well said.
That’s a little shocking.
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