# Carrie Fisher has massive heart attack on plane \[UPDATE: RIP\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 23, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482 "2016-12-23T21:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/101 "2016-12-27T20:57:42Z")
I was under the vague impression her condition had become stable so this is really sad. I haven’t seen any of Fisher’s work other than Star Wars but at the end of the day that is what she will be remembered for. It is a great example of the sum being greater than the parts where somehow those stock characters with their famously awkward lines blended to form an irresistible cocktail of fun and adventure. Her Princess Leia will never be forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/102 "2016-12-27T20:58:59Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > I heard it on the radio – it started “Carrie Fisher” and I thought maybe the next line would be “has left the hospital” but unfortunately no. I actually thought “Noooo” like in whatever prequel that bad line was in (it expressed my feelings perfectly) Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith, IIRC. Just after Anakin had been transformed into Darth Vader and Palpatine had told him that Padme had died. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/103 "2016-12-27T21:00:50Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I saw a statement from Debbie Reynolds. I had no idea she was still living. What a thing to bury your daughter. Debbie is very much alive at 84, one of the all-time sweetheart celebrities. If Carrie was a Princess, Debbie is a Queen. My heart goes out to her. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/104 "2016-12-27T21:01:29Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Well at least she didn’t die on Christmas Day itself. Granted that’s probably not much comfort for her family who spent Christmas praying for her to pull through. Four more days until 2017. > > Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk It’s Hanukkah too and her dad Eddie Fisher was Jewish so she dies on Hanukkah and Carrie was Jewish . ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/105 "2016-12-27T21:06:24Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > And yet, Henry Kissinger lives on… The Devil takes care of his own. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/106 "2016-12-27T21:22:54Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > I was under the vague impression her condition had become stable so this is really sad. . . . That was what Debbie Reynolds said, not any medical professional (not that they could). And ‘stable’ when someone is in ICU isn’t necessarily a positive sign. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/107 "2016-12-27T21:26:15Z")
I will miss her for Star Wars of course but even more I will miss her because she was amazingly funny and insightful. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/108 "2016-12-27T21:27:19Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Care to offer an explanation for Keith Richards? He’s more drugs now than man. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/109 "2016-12-27T21:29:59Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > That was what Debbie Reynolds said, not any medical professional (not that they could). And ‘stable’ when someone is in ICU isn’t necessarily a positive sign. Right. “Stable” could mean no change her condition, for better or worse. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/110 "2016-12-27T21:38:54Z")
[Slightly NSFW image](http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/01SGJ30mrDKX04Q9UaVeVTiYkvA=/950x534/filters:quality(90)/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F330624%2F8e217ecb-ee15-4462-8839-6f23bb17340d.jpg) (not sexually graphic or anything like, just an image some might consider offensive) posted in case anybody needs a cover picture for Facebook regarding 2016’s celebrity massacre. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/111 "2016-12-27T21:42:42Z")
Some twitter comments from various SW folks: > **['Star Wars,' Cast, George Lucas React to Carrie Fisher's Death](https://ew.com/movies/2016/12/27/carrie-fisher-dead-star-wars-cast-mark-hamill/)** > > In the wake of Fisher's death, Mark Hamill and other stars paid tribute to their former costar I picked a few: Mark Hammil: no words #Devastated JJ Abrams: You didn’t need to meet Carrie Fisher to understand her power. She was just as brilliant and beautiful, tough and wonderful, incisive and funny as you could imagine. What an unfair thing to lose her. How lucky to have been blessed with her at all Colin Trevorrow \ Always Brian ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/112 "2016-12-27T21:49:14Z")
[Carrie Fisher’s thoughts on her slave costume:](http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/carrie-fisher-really-wanted-you-to-know-she-hated-the-m-1790526914) > [@](#): > > The father who flipped out about it, “What am I going to tell my kid about why she’s in that outfit?” Tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn’t like it. And then I took it off. Backstage. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/113 "2016-12-27T22:13:17Z")
Am I the only one who irrationally thinks, ‘She can’t be dead! I just saw her on _Graham Norton_!’ ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/114 "2016-12-27T22:14:39Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Care to offer an explanation for Keith Richards? I would think it obvious from his pictures. He had himself embalmed ahead of time. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/115 "2016-12-27T22:17:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Am I the only one who irrationally thinks, ‘She can’t be dead! I just saw her on _Graham Norton_!’ She was flying back from that promo tour ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/116 "2016-12-27T22:19:57Z")
Fark’s headline feels hopeful to me: “Carrie Fisher has become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” May the force be with you, Carrie Fisher. Always. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/117 "2016-12-27T22:21:53Z")
We’re now in the sharing of Facebook tributes phase, to be soon followed by the “waaaah! what about the soldiers that die without publicity?” phase of Facebook posts. I only knew her from the Star Wars role, but it’s sad to see someone relatively young die. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/118 "2016-12-27T22:24:11Z")
It seems silly to say “My heart goes out to her mother and her daughter” since I’ve never met either of them and the closest I ever came to Carrie was in a mobbed ballroom at Dragon Con and there’s already a huge outpouring from actual friends and fans across the world, but wtf ever: my heart goes out to her mother and her daughter. And also to her BFF, Penny Marshall, who must also be devastated. (They used to host a joint birthday party [their birthdays are a week apart, though Penny’s about 13 years older] and have been best buds for decades.) And to her cute little dog, Gary. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/119 "2016-12-27T22:32:54Z")
I do hope they don’t Tarkin her into the new movie. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482/120 "2016-12-27T22:49:31Z")
Thanks, Carrie, for letting us all know [there’s no underwear in space](http://www.blastr.com/2010/08/how_george_lucas_convince.php). > [@](#): > > “{George Lucas} explained that in space you get weightless, and so your flesh expands. What? But your bra doesn’t, so you get strangled by your bra. That’s why I couldn’t wear a bra in the first Star Wars. George actually came backstage when I did the show in San Francisco and told me that.” > > As if that clarified everything after all these years. Fisher responded sarcastically, “Really? Now I understand it.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-has-massive-heart-attack-on-plane-update-rip/775482.md?page=7)