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Pat Quinn, co-founder of the viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, died Sunday at age 37, according to the ALS Foundation. The Ice Bucket Challenge, which was popular in 2014, was a multimillion-dollar movement to help find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive, neurodegenerative disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that makes a person’s muscles function. To participate in the challenge, people dumped a bucket of ice water over their heads, then challenged a friend to either do the same or donate money to the ALS Association. Nationally, 2.5 million people donated $115 million to the ALS Association in what the organization said at the time was “probably the single largest episode of giving outside of a disaster or emergency.” (📸: Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald/Getty Images)

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