# Hosni Mubarak has been declared clinically dead \[maybe\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681 "2012-06-19T21:39:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/1 "2012-06-19T21:39:06Z")
[Story here.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/hosni-mubarak-clinically-dead_n_1610343.html) > [@](#): > > AIRO, June 19 (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years until overthrown by a revolution in the “Arab Spring” last year, was declared clinically dead by his doctors on Tuesday, the state news agency MENA said in a report confirmed by a hospital source. > > Mubarak was 84 and had been sentenced to life in prison earlier this month. * * * Yes, I know there is a typo in the title. Can’t edit it, will ask a mod to assist. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/2 "2012-06-19T21:49:36Z")
Pharaohwell. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/3 "2012-06-19T21:49:53Z")
So…folks are dying to escape Egyptian prisons? Always sad to see a dictator pass away. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/4 "2012-06-19T22:00:23Z")
Is he merely dead, or really most \*sincerely \*dead? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/5 "2012-06-19T22:01:48Z")
I don’t like to think **Eve** and I think alike (she’s weird, but not THIS weird), but I almost went with the munchkin coroner riff as well. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/6 "2012-06-19T22:04:09Z")
They’re now saying he’s on life support, but whatever the exact deal is, he’ll be completely dead soonish. In one article Egyptian authorities were quoted as saying Mubarak’s heart had stopped but that he was “resurrected.” Given Egypt’s long history with mummies I thought that was a great choice of words. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/7 "2012-06-19T22:04:41Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I don’t like to think **Eve** and I think alike (she’s weird, but not THIS weird), but I almost went with the\*\* munchkin coroner \*\*riff as well. Jesus, don’t give those SVU/CSI/NCIS writers any more weird ideas. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/8 "2012-06-19T23:24:37Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > They’re now saying he’s on life support, but whatever the exact deal is, he’ll be completely dead soonish… I can’t take him like that. It’s against regulations. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/9 "2012-06-19T23:31:40Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > They’re now saying he’s on life support,… He got better? ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/10 "2012-06-19T23:34:32Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > They’re now saying he’s on life support, but whatever the exact deal is, he’ll be completely dead soonish. In one article Egyptian authorities were quoted as saying Mubarak’s heart had stopped but that he was “resurrected.” Given Egypt’s long history with mummies I thought that was a great choice of words. I dunno… his wikipedia page has been updated to list him as dead. I don’t think there’s any comming back from that one. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/11 "2012-06-20T00:11:33Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > I dunno… his wikipedia page has been updated to list him as dead. I don’t think there’s any comming back from that one. As an obituary writer, I have learned the hard way that “wiki-dead” is not \*really \*dead; “_L.A. Times_ dead” is _dead_. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/12 "2012-06-20T00:52:37Z")
He’s only _mostly_ dead… ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/13 "2012-06-20T01:29:04Z")
Awfully coincidental timing of his imprisonment and sudden decline. If he wasn’t being poisoned, it sure looked like it. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/14 "2012-06-20T01:31:42Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > I dunno… his wikipedia page has been updated to list him as dead. I don’t think there’s any comming back from that one. I dunno about your I dunno…I’m sensing a Facebook, The Resurrection story brewing here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/15 "2012-06-20T01:31:43Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Is he merely dead, or really most \*sincerely \*dead? Naaaah, he’s merely spending the next year dead for tax reasons. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/16 "2012-06-20T01:37:44Z")
The sequence of event’s is just how they are reporting the mummification. Soon he’ll be back up and about cursing people and such. Expect a terrible movie or series of movies documenting the events. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/17 "2012-06-20T01:39:29Z")
Mubarak was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was then taken to a better hospital, where his condition was upgraded to “alive.” ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/18 "2012-06-20T02:00:45Z")
He’s pining for the fjords. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/19 "2012-06-20T02:57:42Z")
[Samir Nagheenanajar] Back up in yo ass with a resurrection [/Samir Nagheenanajar] ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681/20 "2012-06-20T03:01:51Z")
If he does wind up lingering on for some considerable period of time it will be kind of weird (in addition to all the “Mummy” jokes) on account of the continuing [Ariel Sharon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon) situation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hosni-mubarak-has-been-declared-clinically-dead-maybe/625681.md?page=2)