Few celebrity deaths have been the subject of such persistent rumor and self-interested speculation. Her death has been blamed on everything from crash dieting to drug and alcohol abuse to choking on a ham sandwich (persistent claim, but debunked) to eatiing a pro-inflammatory diet. Most sources cite an autopsy report listing cause of death from heart failure due to fatty myocardial degeneration due to obesity, but some cite a heart attack or cardiac conduction system anomaly.
Along with Jimi Hendrix.*
*hope that can be mentioned without a certain Doper leaping in to insist on his bizarre alternate theory.
I used to think this death, and where he was found, was mildly amusing. Then a person very dear to me was found passed in that manner. She was very old and simply went to sleep.
Catherine the Great and that unfortunate meeting with a horse?
All the more so since it’d pretty thoroughly believed by experts to be a scurrilous rumor circulated by her enemies, but is still commonly told by laymen such as myself.
There is a medical syndrome called “straining at stool” which is about what it sounds like. While huffing & puffing and pushing against relative constipation the victim gives themselves a stroke or similar. Oops. Thump!
I don’t know if that is what happened, I was not the one to find her, but my sister did. It must have been fast and relatively painless though, based on what sis said.
That’s interesting, I recently listened to a podcast with an eating disorder specialist who said she died from heart failure due to an eating disorder that caused her to severely restrict her food intake. Contrary to popular belief, fat people can and do starve themselves, to the point of heart complications and death, but it’s hard to get medical professionals to take their disorders seriously, even in severe cases.
The first name to jump to my mind was Stockton Rush, a guy I never heard of until he died in a spectacularly stupid way that neatly showcased all of his worst qualities.
He was elected because he was a war hero. First he fought Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe, and later fought admirably in the War of 1812.
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My contribution:
Brandon Lee, son of Bruce, most famous for being killed with a prop gun.
Assuming you mean Oliver (a very, very well known figure in British and Irish history), he didn’t die from being beheaded. I don’t know the Monty Python song but I assume it’s about his very posthumous beheading.
Yeah fuck, I’m actually remembering King Charles I as the song begins:
“The most interesting thing about King Charles the First
Is that he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign
But only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it
Because of…”
