# The Passion - Viewer Dies of Heart Attack after the Cruxifixion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411 "2004-02-27T03:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/1 "2004-02-27T03:45:24Z")
A film-goer at Wichita, Kansas, collapsed during the Cruxifixion scene in the Passion and died shortly afterwards, apparently of a heart attack. ☹ That does it. I’m definitely not seeing that movie! :eek: [Woman Dies of Heart Attack](http://www.fox23news.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=2647B1DE-826F-4CE2-A408-5C1C8D956D31) ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/2 "2004-02-27T03:55:33Z")
Not to be callous but so what? What I would like to know is how many people die in movie theatres every year. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/3 "2004-02-27T04:20:52Z")
Hmmm. Let’s check back on her in a couple of days. Maybe she will “rise again.” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/4 "2004-02-27T04:22:31Z")
The news scroll this afternoon said they’re already talking about a possible lawsuit on her family’s behalf. ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/5 "2004-02-27T04:25:40Z")
Hmm, interesting. Was she the first born? ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/6 "2004-02-27T04:31:34Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > What I would like to know is how many people die in movie theatres every year. My guess is not many. Severely ill people will not be in movie theatres, and most victims of heart attack or stroke would survive long enough to be taken to a hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/7 "2004-02-27T04:35:20Z")
I wonder if the ratings people could be held responsible for giving such a terribly violent movie only an “R” rating. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/8 "2004-02-27T13:25:10Z")
If she had died during a showing of, say, _Pee Wee’s Big Top_, do you really think it would have gotten any attention at all? My day was 50 when he had a sudden heart attack and died at work. He was in otherwise good health, much as the woman in KC was, according to other accounts of her death. Heart attacks happen to all kinds of people, in all degrees of healthiness, at all times of the day, in all sorts of places. If she had her heart attack in the car on the way to work, or in the parking lot of the quickie mart where she gets her morning coffee, or while she was sleeping, I really don’t think that it would have gotten any attention at all, nationally. Losing someone suddenly (even not so suddenly) at such a young age is extremely difficult. To blame it on a movie is grasping at straws. ---
**Author:** ![JaxBeachBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@JaxBeachBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaxBeachBoy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/9 "2004-02-27T15:16:19Z")
I heard on the radio this morning that the lady is an employee of Clear Channel. I’ve always heard how Clear Channel is the work of satan, I guess now we have proof. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/10 "2004-02-28T01:25:23Z")
It’s my educated **guess** that it is very probable that seeing the movie triggered the fatal attack. However, it’s also my educated guess that she was most likely a heart attack waiting to happen, and the event would likely have happened soon anyway. That’s life for you. I guess I’m done with this post. ---
**Author:** ![Fang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@Fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fang)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/11 "2004-02-28T07:13:35Z")
You know, I haven’t seen it yet. You could have put in a spoiler warning. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/12 "2004-02-28T14:56:38Z")
Hey, the sister of chorographer Jerome Robbins died of a heart attack at the opening of “Fiddler on the Roof”: [http://www.broadway.com/template\_1.asp?CI=34419&CT=38](http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=34419&CT=38) But you don’t see me starting a thread about it. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/13 "2004-02-28T14:59:28Z")
Did anyone die during _Schindler’s List_ or _Saving Private Ryan_? And it’s not like there’s been absolutely no publicity about the move, and how graphic it is. Yes, it’s sad, but I hope the lawsuit gets thrown out. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/14 "2004-02-28T15:30:35Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Hey, the sister of chorographer Jerome Robbins died of a heart attack at the opening of “Fiddler on the Roof”: [Broadway Tickets | Broadway Shows | Theater Tickets | Broadway.com](http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=34419&CT=38) > > But you don’t see me starting a thread about it. Okay, I started one. Cause it is so ironic…[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4590164#post4590164](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4590164#post4590164) ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passion-viewer-dies-of-heart-attack-after-the-cruxifixion/231411/15 "2004-02-28T21:14:25Z")
Wonder which way she went, up or down?