Tom Petty’s Daughter Posts To Instagram, Confirms Her Father Is Not Dead

ETCanada ^ | October 2, 2017

[SMGFan]

Initial reports Tom Petty had died at age 66 were inaccurate.

The LAPD tweeted to clarify earlier reports:

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Petty’s daughter posted to Instagram on Monday evening confirming her father is not dead. (Warning for language)

[refreshed]

I’ve been there. Recently. What a person really is comes out in times like these. I will pray for Tom Petty and his family, and that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be glorified through what happens.

[Parley Baer]

“Apparently he has no brain function.”

I guess they did not pull the plug on him after all. We will just have to wait and see what the medical updates are.

[BBell]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Really? Letting loose with a tirade of disgusting language sounds like a typical grief-stricken daughter to you?

She was angry at a magazine which pronounced her father dead while he is still alive. That's not something we will ever have to experience - I would not be so quick to judge. She's a distraught young woman whose grief is being disrupted by premature claims of her father's death - I can't imagine how many people have contacted Petty's family to offer their condolences while he's still alive. My sympathies for the young woman.

[refreshed]

Sometimes the body continues on for quite awhile after the “plug” is pulled. No brain function, but the body fights.

[americas.best.days...]

People do not necessarily die upon removal of “life support” which can include several things.

Sometimes they don’t die at all, which can be just as devastating.

It is a sickening thing that the media misreported this.

TMZ was accurate, CBS was not. Crazy times.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Maybe it’s just me, but if a family member of mine was in a bad situation like this I wouldn’t say I would sh!t down someone’s throat.

If a national magazine announced that your famous father had died while he was still living, triggering an avalanche of articles, social media activity, and condolence calls to you and your family while you're in the hospital trying to deal with what is happening and the decisions which must be made, I'd venture to say you might get pretty upset. I know I would.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

No brain function, but the body fights.

Yup. I've unfortunately had to spend a vigil like this at the hospital - though life is no longer possible because one part of the body has died, the rest of the body doesn't know it - it goes on striving and fighting to live.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Vile language. I've seen TP a few times, but I quit supporting when I read this from August:

• "More than 100 celebrity artists, including Lady Gaga, Tom Petty and R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, recently got involved in a new project to support the abortion group. They autographed a guitar that will be raffled off in May as part of a larger benefit for Planned Parenthood, according to Under the Radar Magazine."

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  Really sad for Tom and his family. He made some great music, but his position on abortion is a glimpse into how he valued human life.

[garandgal]

Oddly, this IS something my family experienced. My Grandmother was pronounced dead, family & close friends were called (I was assigned to call my cousins). When my Dad arrived at the facility about 45 minutes later, HE noticed she was still breathing.

Obviously it was not a media spectacle...but my Dad was extremely angry with the nursing staff and let it be known. I had to call my cousins back (very odd phone call to say the least)...Grandma lived for a few more good months...and we never told her:)

Hope this has a similarly good outcome.

[Bookwoman]

That’s how it happened with my mom. No brain function, but her body was so strong it took her almost a day to die. It was excruciating. These folks need their privacy in his final hours. Prayers up.

[Bookwoman]

That’s how it happened with my mom. No brain function, but her body was so strong it took her almost a day to die. It was excruciating. These folks need their privacy in his final hours. Prayers up.

[Jaded]

We report...you decide.

I think it was TMZ that killed him multiple times.

[Hotlanta Mike]

You haven’t read any of her foul mouthed postings...

[Hotlanta Mike]

The blond...

[RooRoobird20]

She has a right to be upset.

Nonetheless she is a filthy mouthed ugly skank. Grief does not excuse this kind of trashy behavior.

[ohioman]

Who cares. Though a good musician, Petty is a liberal POS.

[avenir]

“I don’t believe any of it anymore.”

Getting there myself.

[SteveH]

being on the receiving side of a family member in a hospice situation is very difficult. it was difficult for me with my family member (3 weeks off of life support, while control had passed to other relatives who were not present).

an aside, my understanding is that tom petty, as much as i enjoy his great music, is a flaming liberal. still, i hope he shows the world, recovers completely, and goes on tour again.

[John S Mosby]

It is true that enough involuntary brain function can be preserved in what is called hypoxic (low oxygen) condition of a short duration (from 3-10 minutes) while no-oxygen condition (in the case of drowning, or a cardiac arrest in which the heart is fibrillating— that is an un-organized quivering mass of muscle with out any rhythm and thus not pumping out any blood directly from the oxygenating lungs)can result in permanent brain damage and/or brain death. The respirator, if the heart is nominally restored to some kind of rhthym or induced rhythm from another device, can maintain oxygen to what cells are not killed off. Sorry, but this is clinical (can look this up online under hypoxia/anoxia).

If he was in complete Ventricular fibrillation (zero rhythm of any kind) for 3-9 minutes fully depriving the brain of oxygen, the brain has a reserve of some oxygen (and glucose stored) to keep some brain cells alive, perhaps 3 minutes. The upper brain (temporal lobe- where memory is located) is often affected first and then the lack of circulation/blood sugar continues down into the brain stem/cerebellum which controls muscular activity. So, cognitive parts of the brain may only partially survive or not, and breathing and heart normal rhythm possibly restored. But the memory loss can be permanent.

If— (and it seems unlikely, though we don’t know) CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, which everyone should know how to do properly) was administered rapidly after the first signs of cardiac arrest, there would be a chance of recovery. Like in a heart attack (where the muscles affected actually die), some function could be saved. But we don’t know who found him, and how soon or during a heart attack it was.

From the outside looking in- his prognosis is not good, and the experience of such a debilitation is not something a typical rocknroll child of LA can really face, having largely been living in a pampered bubble in the shadow of a great famous artist. Very much a shame if any of this happens to him for lack of CPR. Why we now have defibrillators in airports and other public places. The phrase, terrible as it is: “time is tissue”.