# What killed Whitney Houston? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 12, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581 "2012-02-12T03:51:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablo_O_Malley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/1 "2012-02-12T03:51:46Z")
:DNo cause of death has been reported yet for Whitney Houston so let’s try to guess before it is, as this remains a mystery for now here’s what’s known, according to news accounts: the body was found in a bathtub, no evidence of drug use, meaning no pill bottles or drug residue or paraphernalia at the scene, no evidence of foul play, meaning no visible marks on the body such as stab wounds, gunshot wounds, bruising i’m going with heart attack…not necessarily from drug overdose tonite or last nite, but years of coke abuse and whatever else caught up with her on this nite…if she was doing coke there’d be residue and/or paraphernalia likely…if it was a suicide, which happens frequently in a tub when one cuts one’s wrists, there would be wounds on the wrists and lots of blood and a blade or knife around…none of that reported what is your guess? the online sportsbooks that take bets on this sort of thing have already posted odds: drug overdose 3-1, heart attack 4-1, suicide 6-1, murder 10-1, accidental drowning 30-1, poisoning 50-1 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/2 "2012-02-12T04:00:14Z")
What, Whitney Houston is dead? It must have just happened. :: scurries off to check news sites :: ---
**Author:** ![CTburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@CTburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CTburns)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/3 "2012-02-12T04:02:15Z")
I would agree with you that some type of cardiac event related to her years of drug abuse is what killed her. I also find it likely that she may have committed suicide or suffered an accidental drug overdose. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/4 "2012-02-12T04:02:38Z")
After all, it was you and me. ---
**Author:** ![Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablo_O_Malley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/5 "2012-02-12T04:11:02Z")
don’t forget one thing: los angeles county coroner’s office are the same clowns who screwed up the john belushi death investigation a few yrs back…in fact the head clown of that dept coronor tom noguchi got his ass shitcanned after that fuckup…so don’t beleive anything or everything u hear out of that office ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/6 "2012-02-12T04:12:36Z")
Lack of oxygen to the brain. ---
**Author:** ![Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablo_O_Malley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/7 "2012-02-12T04:25:06Z")
me or whitney? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/8 "2012-02-12T04:30:42Z")
The minute I heard she was found in a hotel room in the city she lives in I was thinking drug OD, addicts who are hiding their use or relapsing after a long dry spell often go to hotel rooms to use so as to hide it from their family/friends. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/9 "2012-02-12T05:04:11Z")
Since until a cause of death is announced this must involve speculation, let’s move this to IMHO. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablo_O_Malley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/10 "2012-02-12T05:11:26Z")
its informed speculation, which is good enough for fox news to report so why not us ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/11 "2012-02-12T05:29:47Z")
> [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](#): > > don’t forget one thing: los angeles county coroner’s office are the same clowns who screwed up the john belushi death investigation a few yrs back… If your definition of “a few years back” extends to “ **thirty** years ago”, then, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/12 "2012-02-12T05:49:24Z")
> [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](#): > > its informed speculation, which is good enough for fox news to report so why not us You can speculate all you want, but the forum for speculation is IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Freakin\_Back\_Is\_Killing\_Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@My\_Freakin\_Back\_Is\_Killing\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Freakin_Back_Is_Killing_Me)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/13 "2012-02-12T05:50:10Z")
> [@grude](#): > > The minute I heard she was found in a hotel room in the city she lives in I was thinking drug OD, addicts who are hiding their use or relapsing after a long dry spell often go to hotel rooms to use so as to hide it from their family/friends. I’m pretty sure she was staying at the hotel in order to attend the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party tonight. Which, by the way, is going forward while her corpse is still on the fourth floor of the same hotel since the scene is still being investigated. Kind of Creepy, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/14 "2012-02-12T06:27:07Z")
Who had her in the CDP? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/15 "2012-02-12T06:45:27Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Who had her in the CDP? No one worth mentioning (meaning not me). ---
**Author:** ![Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablo_O_Malley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/16 "2012-02-12T06:56:43Z")
They cant cancel the freaking party…all those canapes they made, theyll go to waste…not to mention the baked alaska will melt cbs is creaming in the pants…tomorrow’s grammys show will be the highest rated ever…one crack ho’s corpse means money in the bank at 57th st ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/17 "2012-02-12T06:59:21Z")
Drug overdose. No determination if accidental or suicidal is my bet. Case closed. Similar to Marilyn Monroe death. ---
**Author:** ![Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablo_O_Malley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/18 "2012-02-12T07:17:12Z")
Monroes death aint closed, theyre still speculating about it ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/19 "2012-02-12T07:19:35Z")
> [@grude](#): > > The minute I heard she was found in a hotel room in the city she lives in I was thinking drug OD, addicts who are hiding their use or relapsing after a long dry spell often go to hotel rooms to use so as to hide it from their family/friends. Exactly. They said she’d spent the last four days in the Beverly Hills Hilton with whatshisname. Had to have been partying. I’m thinking accidental overdose. She was in the tub so she might have been trying to clean off the “stank” of four whole days…not using _at the moment_ but had been, heavily. IMHO And no, it wasn’t a shock. Over the last few years it’s been like watching a slow death. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/20 "2012-02-12T07:24:03Z")
> [@My\_Freakin\_Back\_Is\_Killing\_Me](#): > > I’m pretty sure she was staying at the hotel in order to attend the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party tonight. Which, by the way, is going forward while her corpse is still on the fourth floor of the same hotel since the scene is still being investigated. Kind of Creepy, IMO. Not at all. Shit happens. The show must go on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581.md?page=2)