Pretty typical to try and get the family to the hospital.
He may also have been an organ donor. It takes time to get all that together.
I was following the Luke Perry situation closely, as I saw firsthand a death after a stroke. In the situation I saw, it was initial stroke, bad stroke after 2 days, then 2 weeks to pull life support, then about 2 weeks to death. Death was more of a "process" than an "event", and parts of the body would seem to recover even though the brain was never going to come back.
RIP Luke Perry. I never heard any stories about him taking drugs or talking politics, he seemed like a regular work-a-day actor.