Posted on 08/12/2022 11:34:03 AM PDT by Ebenezer
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Actress Anne Heche died today at age 53 years after being disconnected from life support one week after being in a serious automobile accident that left her in a coma.
Her family made this difficult decision following a brain-death diagnosis.
It was said that Heche decided how to dispose of her organs since she was a donor.
Her closest relatives thanked her fans who had sent the actress messages of support during the past few days and especially praised the work done by "the staff and the wonderful nurses" who cared for her at the hospital.
Anne Heche was seen in early August driving recklessly on the streets of Los Angeles. Minutes earlier, she had hit another vehicle and, later, a garage she fled from while a neighbor yelled at her.
Believe or not, that house in that location (Mar Vista, West LA) was probably worth close to $2 million; obviously, the house will never be the same, but it’s the dirt that is valuable. Hopefully she had insurance, and she’ll probably get a settlement from Heche’s estate. In the end she’ll have a pot of money and/or a brand new house.
The woman whose home was destroyed can file a lawsuit against Heche’s estate. It’s probably already in the works.
She'll do alright financially. Already there's a Go-Fund-Me account and it's not like Heche was financially indigent. She received some minor injuries and all her pets were saved. Her loss was possessions special to her but, while not making light of that, it is no different than anyone who has a house tragically lost to fire.
That’s what I was thinking. With her chronic substance abuse how would her organs be viable and who’d want them?
RIP Anne.
Hopefully her organs could go to those who need them.
All that stuff metabolizes in your system pretty fast. It’s no different than the meds they give a non-drug user to manage their pain until they harvest their organs.
Her family denies that account she gave.
Maybe after 7 days she had metabolized them. I don't know.
It seems that she had a very troubled life and a troubled end. It is a shame. RIP.
And hardly a word about the woman who she nearly killed and whose house and all worldly possessions she destroyed, while driving drugged out, 60mph and having already run into one building shortly before. GMAFB.
I feel for the poor lady who she almost killed, one she’s made completely whole from the estate I might start to give a rip.
The cocaine is much less of a concern than the damage done to her organs from lack of oxygen. Her lungs were reportedly in very bad condition due to smoke inhalation. If you saw the photos of her being loaded into the ambulance, her hair and clothes were full of soot. Her feet were charred black, burned to a crisp.
Very sad.
RIP Anne
A person is 100 percent responsible for what they do when they get behind the wheel of a car. ALL DUIs should be prosecuted as attempted murder and none of them should EVER drive again, the same goes for *any* mind altering substance.
I’ve had family members and friends killed by speeding drugged/drunk drivers, they can take every last stinking one of ‘em and lock them up forever, no pity, no remorse, no redemption, thugs and murdering sickos no better than the most violent low-life gang banger if they get behind the wheel unable to drive.
Ditto...she could have been headed toward my house and family coked and drunk out of her mind. One more dopehead off the board, my family is safer. I’m amazed at the sympathy here.
I don’t mean to sound cold blooded. I am the least interested in movie stars and the drama.
Salmon Rushdie is stabbed in the neck and is medivaced to a trauma center and someone cares about Anne Hache?
on the other hand, if you’ve worked in a hospital with severely ill patients near death, then you know that there is another group of families, families that want their relative to die quickly.....I am not kidding....they want morphine and ativan and whatever else given IV very frequently and keep asking the doc “when is she going to die”....sometimes they don’t even want the patient to be turned and repositioned....
You “guess”?
Or you could do a bit of research before making (I won’t say) comments.
To cover the various bases:
Long term organ damage from drugs / drinking is certainly a concern when it comes to organ donation. (The organs could be still be donated to “science” if the family was willing or if Ms. Heche had signed off on that previously.)
Most substances along the lines of drugs or alcohol in Ms. Heche’s system would have been metabolized fairly quickly. That would including strong pain killers she may have received at the hospital.
As for smoke and / or heated air inhalation, it can cause severe lung inflammation that just gets worse, the lungs gunk up and one essentially has critical pneumonia: Oxygen levels drop too low even with intubation, and organs, esp. the brain, start dying. In extreme cases of course death is quick, but, very often the burn victim hangs on, lungs declining, for a time. I can only hope for Ms. Heche that she went unconscious or was put into a coma early on.
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