Cause of Death...
Nov. 16th, 2005 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prowler1971Taken from http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/causeofdeath
The above came from Eddie's wife, Vickie.
There have been a lot of wrestler deaths due to heart failure. In many cases, drugs or alcohol have been suspected. As I suspected, past drug use combined with their schedule can kill them early. I wonder if there was anything they could have done. How much of it is steroid related (they'll never admit to that). How long until they have a tribute show for HHH. I wonder how other wrestlers deal with this sort of thing. Do they cut back? I look at Shawn Michaels and how much smaller his build is than other wrestlers of his relative height. I look at Flair who has been wrestling longer than I've been alive (PWI Rookie of the Year in 1971). How does HIS body cope?
Eddie wasn't the first, he won't be the last. But he will be missed like few others.
“It was heart failure. It was from his past – the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that’s what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep.
As soon as they saw his heart, they saw the lining of his heart already had the heart disease. There was no trauma, and Eddie hadn’t hurt himself in any way. It answered a lot of questions. I knew Eddie wasn’t feeling very good for the last week. He was home and kept saying he wasn’t feeling good and we thought it was just “road tired.” So we thought he just had to rest. It answered a lot of my questions, too, because he was just so exhausted. She said it was normal because the heart was working so hard.
The above came from Eddie's wife, Vickie.
There have been a lot of wrestler deaths due to heart failure. In many cases, drugs or alcohol have been suspected. As I suspected, past drug use combined with their schedule can kill them early. I wonder if there was anything they could have done. How much of it is steroid related (they'll never admit to that). How long until they have a tribute show for HHH. I wonder how other wrestlers deal with this sort of thing. Do they cut back? I look at Shawn Michaels and how much smaller his build is than other wrestlers of his relative height. I look at Flair who has been wrestling longer than I've been alive (PWI Rookie of the Year in 1971). How does HIS body cope?
Eddie wasn't the first, he won't be the last. But he will be missed like few others.
