Very similar to the demise of Stalin:
Stalin then went to bed, but only after saying the guards could go off duty and that they weren’t to wake him.
Stalin would usually alert his guards before 10:00 am and ask for tea, but no communication came. The guards grew worried, but were forbidden from waking Stalin and could only wait: there was no one in the Dacha who could counter Stalin’s orders. A light came on in the room around 18:30, but still no call. Eventually, plucking up the courage to go in and using the arrived post as an excuse, a guard entered the room at 22:00 and found Stalin lying on the floor in a pool of urine. He was helpless and unable to speak, and his broken watch showed he had fallen at 18:30.
A Delay in Treatment:
The guards felt they didn’t have the right authority to call for a doctor – indeed many of Stalin’s doctors were the target of a new purge – so instead they called the Minister of State Security. He also felt he didn’t have the right powers and called Beria. Exactly what happened next is still not fully understood, but Beria and other leading Russians delayed acting, possibly because they wanted Stalin to die and not include them in the forthcoming purge, possibly because they were scared of seeming to infringe on Stalin’s powers should he recover. They only called for doctors sometime between 7:00 and 10:00 the next day after first travelling to the Dacha themselves.
The doctors found Stalin partially paralysed, breathing with difficulty and vomiting blood. They feared the worst but were unsure. The best doctors in Russia, those which had been treating Stalin, had recently been arrested as part of the forthcoming purge and were in prison. Representatives of the doctors who were free and had seen Stalin went to the prisons to ask for the old doctors’ opinions, who confirmed the initial, negative, diagnoses. Stalin struggled on for several days, eventually dying at 21:50 on March 5th. His daughter said about the event: “The death agony was terrible. He literally choked to death as we watched.” (Conquest, Stalin: Breaker of Nations, p. 312)
http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/communistrussia/a/histmyths3.htm
Kim Jong Il Is Dead: Celebrities Tweet Reactions
Kirstie Alley, Jared Leto, a President Obama impersonator and more share their feelings on the death of the North Korean dictator
Terri Schwartz ON Dec 19, 2011 at 12:18PM
The death of North Korean dicatator Kim Jong Il on Saturday morning at the age of 69 has certainly rocked the world, but not many American citizens are too choked up about it. Celebrities took to their Twitter accounts to react to the leader's passing — which the state's news agency says was caused by “advanced acute myocardial infarction, complicated with a serious heart shock” — and some stars were flabbergasted to discover that North Korean citizens were actually upset about Kim Jong Il’s death.
Kirstie Alley didn't have many kind words to say about those who were upset about Jong Il’s demise. In fact, based on her tweet, the news got her pretty riled up.
“Have people become so blind to barbarism that they weep for mass murderers...please!...get a F#%king clue..cry for the Victims of Kimbo,” she wrote.
Actress Mia Farrow had a similar, albeit more humorous, response. The Rosemary's Baby star posted a video of a news program about Jong Il and tweeted, “N Korea: Ppl sobbing,wailing & thrashing about - as an actor I can say, they would never get hired.”.............
You can add S. Korea’s intelligence chief to the growing list of those that don’t buy the story of Kim Jong Il’s death -
2011/12/20 20:46 KST
S. Korean intelligence chief casts doubts over time, place of Kim’s death
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Yonhap) — The head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Tuesday expressed cautious doubts over the time and location of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s death, parliamentary officials said, raising questions over whether the communist North tried to beautify Kim’s death.