# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/21 "2012-02-12T07:27:17Z")
She’s just Waiting To Expire. ---
**Author:** ![BeaMyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/22 "2012-02-12T08:01:25Z")
Bobby Brown ---
**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, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/23 "2012-02-12T08:18:50Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > She’s just Waiting To Expire. I really like this. i think it would make a better movie. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/24 "2012-02-12T08:33:02Z")
Waiting To Exhume ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/25 "2012-02-12T08:57:27Z")
> [@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… That was 30 years ago, not a few, maybe, just maybe they have fixed things in the three decades since then. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/26 "2012-02-12T09:13:56Z")
Her lifestyle no doubt. She survived longer than most. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/27 "2012-02-12T09:31:13Z")
This Whitney Houston was killed by hand with a sharp knife? ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/28 "2012-02-12T10:03:46Z")
I’m gonna go ahead and wager 8000 straightdollars that it was wrist cutting. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/29 "2012-02-12T10:38:41Z")
Where was her bodyguard?? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/30 "2012-02-12T11:35:09Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Lack of oxygen to the brain. This. It is pretty much the only cause of death. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/31 "2012-02-12T11:50:11Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > She’s just Waiting To Expire. A Whitney Houston zombie flick? ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/32 "2012-02-12T12:14:21Z")
Colonel Mustard in the Billiard Room with a crack pipe. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/33 "2012-02-12T12:38:24Z")
There is a movie in the works in which she plays a small part, due to come out later this year. My money is on some psychopath who thought: “well, if she dies, no-one would be surprised, and the movie would make about 3000 times more then it would otherwise, so lets make sure mrs. Houston has an accident in her hotel room” . That is _my_ juicy conspiracy theory and I’m sticking to it. > [@](#): > > In September 2011, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Houston was to produce and star (alongside Jordin Sparks and Mike Epps) in the remake of the 1976 film Sparkle. It was also reported that Houston would play Sparks’s “not-so encouraging mother.” Houston was to have had executive producer credits on top of acting credits according to Debra Martin Chase, producer of Sparkle. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/34 "2012-02-12T12:58:14Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > After all, it was you and me. Don’t worry, **Ludovic**. I got it. And you’re likely right. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/35 "2012-02-12T13:42:53Z")
I’m going with suicide by overdose. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/36 "2012-02-12T14:13:42Z")
The photograph they published a few days ago, with her walking out of a club looking like a black Lindsey Lohan, made me certain that she was back on hard-ass drugs. She was a fool to get mixed up with Bobby Brown. And she’s paid the price in spades. What a catastrophic shame. Such beauty, such talent…down the drain. I feel really bad for her mom and daughter. People who care for drug addicts have a really difficult lot. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/37 "2012-02-12T14:25:18Z")
She might as well go to the Grammys anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/38 "2012-02-12T14:26:47Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > What a catastrophic shame. Such beauty, such talent…down the drain. [If only we could have warned this kid.](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jX9QklC3G4E/TF9CtnieOAI/AAAAAAAADAs/kfwhF5VnKog/s1600/1985-whitney-houston-400.jpg) ---
**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, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/39 "2012-02-12T15:06:27Z")
I think she learned the truth about the moon landings and was killed by the real Men In Black. ---
**Author:** ![spankthecrumpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@spankthecrumpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankthecrumpet)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581/40 "2012-02-12T15:19:56Z")
I say drug overdose. If I had to guess I would expect benzodiazepenes of some kind, possibly with alcohol [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581.md?page=3)