Was Elvis Presleys fatal heart attack caused by a drug overdose? Or was it caused by being a fat, out of shape lard ass?
Also, is it true that he suffered the heart attack while sitting on the toilet?
From what I’ve heard (not having been alive at the time), Elvis did die while on the toilet. As far as the other details, your guess is as good as mine.
He’s not dead. I saw him just last week.
My theory: fat, out of shape lard ass known to be taking a lot of drugs (not sure what his drugs of choice were, but I’d guess there were some opiates in there–does anyone know?) with a known taste for such healthy fare as fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. If anyone on the great planet Earth were ever constipated, it had to be Elvis.
So Elvis goes to the can, can’t seem to make things happen, strains with everything he’s got, pushes it too hard, and that’s all she wrote.
The Graceland tour does not include the toilet that Elvis died on. I asked.
Dr. J
So it’s true:
The King died on the Throne…
Weird. I was just thinking about this the other day.
Cecil wrote about this some years ago. To wit, it appeared in one of his columns circa 1991.
I remember it specifically since my roommate at the time, brought it to our attention that his brother (with some other co-writer for God’s sake) was the one who submitted the question.
The odd thing – though I own all of the SD books, I have yet to see this column featured.
What gives?
There was a book about it called, appropriately, “The Death of Elvis.”
According to it, the autopsy report showed he had 10 different drugs in his body. Of them, 7 were at lethal levels. He also had an impacted colon that must have looked impressive when they took it out of him.
According to his autopsy he was found on the floor of his dressing room.
Elvis Presley’s Death - as Reported in the Washington Post
Rock Idol Elvis Presley Dies at 42
By Larry Rohter and Tom Zito
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, August 17, 1977
(© 1977 The Washington Post Co.)
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Presley’s body was discovered at 2:30 p.m. Memphis time by his road manager, Jerry Esposito, in a bathroom in the singer’s multimillion-dollar Graceland Mansion.
I thought his heart attack was a result of an allergic reaction to codeine. I don’t think he was on the toilet but I will believe that he was found in the bathroom.
Here I sit all broken-hearted.
Came to shit, now I’m departed.
–Elvis
You know, it just goes to show you…Elvis had talent, looks, beautiful women at his disposal, and oodles of money. Yet, he was so desperately unhappy that he drugged himself to death.
There was talk that his physician should have been charged with a crime since all the drugs were legally prescribed, but nothing was ever done to the bastard IIRC. I mean, who needs a pusher when your doctor will feed your habit?
On a related note, I believe Michael Jackson’s plastic surgeon should also be held criminally liable for what he’s done to MJ’s face…clearly MJ is mentally ill and that surgeon should have respectfully declined to do more work. I mean, the man looks like Pinocchio.
According to the Weekly World News (America’s most impeccable news source:)) Elvis died from a diabetic coma in May of 1993, having gone into hiding after faking his own death (they have actual photographic evidence to back up their claim too!). So I suppose it’s safe to assume Elvis is really dead now.
By the way, do you know what Elvis would say if he were still alive today?
“Let me out of this coffin, dammit!!!”
(From “Elvis is Dead” by Peter and the Test Tube Babies)
I think you may have elvis death rumours and Bruce Lee death rumours mixed up 
Really? Hmmm, I don’t think I ever heard the Bruce Lee rumor. Or maybe I heard it and substituted Elvis in my head.
I can’t remember who used to do the joke, but it went like this:
Would you believe that was supposed to read
(Elvis impersonation: )
I went on the Graceland tour once (I highly recommend it). One case in the trophy room had all of the honorary police badges Elvis had been given (and there were many)). Right in the center, with pride of place, was his DEA badge. Poor dumb bastard – he had no idea he was a junkie.
–Cliffy
My parents, who despise rock and roll, vacationed in Memphis to visit friends and museums once (museums?). As a lark they went to Graceland and said they rather enjoyed it. These people still think Bing Crosby is the cat’s meow.
Who says Bing Crosby isn’t the cat’s meow?
Elvis was unhealthy, no question. His favorite meal was a peanut butter, banana and mayonnaise sandwich, deep fried. His arteries were probably clogged worse than, uh, something that’s really badly clogged.
But he was not as fat as his post-mortem legend has made him out to be. He never weighed more than 216, and he was fairly tall so that wouldn’t have looked all that fat.
PunditLisa, why must Elvis have been “desperately unhappy” to take so many drugs? Isn’t it possible he just didn’t know his own limits? People do other things that are pleasurable and sometimes overdo them unhealthily: sunbathing, driving fast, eating cake. But no one says a person had to be “desperately unhappy” to do those things.