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The caption on the original says:
This PDF of a New York death index from the same year lists two entries for Charles Black, one of whom was 44 and died on 19 December 1949 -- roughly a month after this photo was taken.
Coincidence? Probably. Charles Black doesn't seem like a unique name.
Orrrrrr... this man died a month later, presumably from complications related to eating a whole fucking turkey on a commercial flight.
He died while many never truly live.
He looks like he's finished, and also done eating
He died a week before Christmas. I hope he doesn't have a family because that's a hard way to end one year and meet a new one.