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What The Final 12 Months Of Johnny Cash's Life Were Like

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Country music legend Johnny Cash died at age 71 due to complications from diabetes on September 12, 2003. There was nothing easy about Cash's life — and his last year proved to be one of his most challenging. Here's what the final 12 months of Johnny Cash's life were like.

Johnny Cash spent most of the 1990s dealing with health issues. While he was originally misdiagnosed with Shy-Drager syndrome, his doctors later diagnosed him with autonomic neuropathy in 2000, a complication of diabetes. According to Johnny Cash: The Biography by Michael Streissguth, his neuropathy often resulted in bouts of pneumonia that forced him to spend a lot of time in the hospital.

In 2002, after he finished recording for his wife June Carter Cash's album Wildwood Flower, he fell ill again. By this time, he was finding it difficult to walk and had trouble with his eyesight too. He was taken to the hospital for what seemed to be an allergic reaction.

Legendary country star Merle Haggard, who was a close friend, told Rolling Stone,

"We knew he'd been sick, and we'd thought he was going to die so many times over the last couple years — if you want to get really serious, he'd been near death for decades. Johnny Cash lived in constant, serious pain."

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Declining health | 0:00
He never complained | 1:12
He never stopped working | 2:11
"Hurt" | 3:07
Going out on top | 4:07
Tragedy | 4:48
He never stopped recording | 6:02
Family ties | 6:40
The last song | 7:09
Icon | 7:57
The Man in Black | 8:53
Tributes to a legend | 9:47

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