Sad to see such a talent taken away at a relatively young age with a terrible disease.
Reading the Twitter and Facebook reactions, I couldn't help noticing something: which Swayze role you thought of first differs wildly, depending largely on your age, gender, life experience, political views, etc. The big three, of course, are "Dirty Dancing," "Road House," and "Red Dawn," but I'd imagine many will remember him most for "Ghost," or for "Point Break," or his hilarious "Donnie Darko" cameo, or for his famous "Chippendales" sketch with Chris Farley on SNL:
Watching that reminds me of watching a classic WWF match from the '80s or '90s and suddenly realizing in the middle of it, "hey, they're both dead."