The late actor approved of his character's death scene, which will air in an upcoming episode of the soap opera

“We were rolling the dice, because it’s difficult to tell a story of someone’s death or a character’s death while the actor is still alive; albeit [Drake] was fighting, like a tiger, a very difficult disease,” Corday told Soap Opera Digest. “And I made the choice to, ‘Okay, let’s tell the story.’”

We knew from the season trailer the show just released at Day of Days that John would be disappearing soon, and we figured that would explain his inevitable absence. But it sounds like we’ll be saying goodbye to John sooner than we think — because his ...

John Black's death scenes were shot when Hogestyn was alive, and co-stars spoke out about filming them. The post Here’s How Drake Hogestyn Was Involved In Planning John’s Death On Days of our Lives ap

Before actor Drake Hogestyn died following a pancreatic cancer battle, he reportedly approved of his Days of Our Lives character also dying. “We were rolling the dice because it’s difficult to tell a story of someone’s death or a character’s death while the actor is still alive;