# Bettie Page Is In A Coma **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948 "2008-12-06T04:01:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/1 "2008-12-06T04:01:23Z")
> **[BETTIE PAGE has heart attack is in a coma](http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/39350)** > > Hey folks, Harry here Just got word from a friend that Bettie Page, the absolute queen of PIN UP BEAUTIES has had a heart attack and is currently in a coma. Wow. Brutal day. Let's all send the best wishes and hopes for a recovery. BETTIE... No details yet, other than she had a heart attack. I hope she pulls through… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/2 "2008-12-06T04:08:21Z")
Ddamnitt… first the news about Forry, now this. It’s a suxxorz day for fandom. I hope she pulls through and has many more happy years. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/3 "2008-12-06T05:47:04Z")
Bettie Page was a babe back in the day, but the first thing I thought of when I heard this news was, I know someone who is going in my [Celebrity Death Pool 2009](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=495515). Does this make me a bad person? ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/4 "2008-12-06T05:51:58Z")
She’ll live forever; she’s an icon. So distinctive, so daring, so dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/5 "2008-12-06T05:57:19Z")
Bettie Page is still alive? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/6 "2008-12-06T05:59:05Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Bettie Page is still alive? This. The thread title shocked me because I had thought she was beyond the point of being capable of being in a coma. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/7 "2008-12-06T06:09:05Z")
I looked her up on [Dead or Alive](http://deadoraliveinfo.com/) and found out she’s 85. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/8 "2008-12-06T14:24:11Z")
God bless you, Betty Page, and here’s hoping He gives you some added happy & healthy years. You’ve had a complex & fascinating life & we’d all be poorer without you. Man, Uncle Forry & one of my best friend’s cat dead & Betty Page not doing well at all. This is a Hellaweek. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/9 "2008-12-06T14:29:02Z")
> [@Ataraxy](#): > > Bettie Page was a babe back in the day, but the first thing I thought of when I heard this news was, I know someone who is going in my [Celebrity Death Pool 2009](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=495515). Does this make me a bad person? Have her for '08, so you know the mental turmoil I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/10 "2008-12-06T15:06:55Z")
[Its not looking good.](http://cbs2.com/national/Betty.Page.ill.2.881161.html) > [@](#): > > “She’s critically ill,” Mark Roesler of CMG Worldwide told The Associated Press. > > He said the 85-year-old had been hospitalized for the last three weeks with pneumonia and was about to be released when she had the heart attack Tuesday. Page was transferred to another hospital in Los Angeles and remained in intensive care Friday. > > A family friend, Todd Mueller, said Page was in a coma. When asked to confirm, Roesler said, “I would not deny that,” but he would not comment further on her condition. I suggest we all rub one out in her honor. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/11 "2008-12-06T15:46:21Z")
Wow, you guys _do_ realize that this is a PERSON we are talking about, yeah? Forget it; the “cool kids” don’t give a shit about anything but lame jokes. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/12 "2008-12-06T16:00:47Z")
Self-righteous, much? ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/13 "2008-12-06T16:11:06Z")
> [@freekalette](#): > > Wow, you guys _do_ realize that this is a PERSON we are talking about, yeah? > > Forget it; the “cool kids” don’t give a shit about anything but lame jokes. I hear a waaaambulance in the distance. Sorry to hear about Ms. Page but y’know, she’s 85 and no one lives forever. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/14 "2008-12-06T16:15:11Z")
> [@freekalette](#): > > Wow, you guys _do_ realize that this is a PERSON we are talking about, yeah? > > Forget it; the “cool kids” don’t give a shit about anything but lame jokes. Oh, take it easy. You have been plenty irreverent on this board in the past. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/15 "2008-12-06T16:19:56Z")
Not mocking the ill is self-righteous? Damn, I musta been doing it wrong all these years. Please forgive me if I think it’s in bad taste to say shit like that. I mean, she seems like a cool lady. Hell there is even a thread in the Pit right now, where folks are discussing random acts of assholishness. But I guess this doesn’t apply, since none of you are the target. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/16 "2008-12-06T17:07:58Z")
Oh please, she did soft-core porn 50 years ago. I’m sure she’s a very nice woman, but this isn’t exactly the kind of tragedy that casts a hush over the nation. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/17 "2008-12-06T17:14:40Z")
It’s called gallows humor. Look it up. Turns out people deal with sad things in lots of different ways. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/18 "2008-12-06T17:39:24Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Oh please, she did soft-core porn 50 years ago. And did it _well._ > [@](#): > > I’m sure she’s a very nice woman, but this isn’t exactly the kind of tragedy that casts a hush over the nation. Speak for yourself! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/19 "2008-12-06T17:40:02Z")
She went to high school at Hume-Fogg in Nashville and then on to Peabody College which had a very staid reputation. It’s funny to think of her there. Even H. Ross Perot could not get his daughter in. I went to Peabody first and then taught at Hume-Fogg for one year. And I look just like Bettie Page at her peak. (Excuse me, my pants have caught on fire…) Fool 'em all, Bettie, and keep on going! ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948/20 "2008-12-06T17:53:51Z")
> [@freekalette](#): > > Wow, you guys _do_ realize that this is a PERSON we are talking about, yeah? > > Forget it; the “cool kids” don’t give a shit about anything but lame jokes. “Life is no less funny when someone dies that it is less serious when someone laughs” – George Bernard Shaw Take note and then take it easy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bettie-page-is-in-a-coma/475948.md?page=2)