text: ron white (aka tater salad) alive or dead??   i heard there was some kind of false news report on the web about him dying some months back. i just could not believe it!! so i looked it up and it was there, seemed real. but no, he's not dead. he's very much alive and has been touring since that false story was reported. man, according to the net a lot of live people are dead, it's really sad!!