Actress Brittany Murphy dead at 32

[cali]

Brittany Murphy Dies

Posted Dec 20th 2009 1:37PM by TMZ Staff

Brittany MurphyBrittany Murphy died early this morning after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived, multiple sources tell TMZ.

She was 32.

A 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, the Los Angeles City Fire Department tells TMZ.

We're told Murphy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

Murphy starred in such films as "Clueless," "8 Mile," and "Don't Say a Word."

Story developing ...

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/20/brittany-murphy-dies-cardiac-arrest/#ixzz0aG3NDWA3

[Oregone]

1. Drugs? Anorexia?

[kaylynwright]

2. That's exactly

That's exactly what I was going to ask, but I didn't want to sound too crash.

That info will probably be out pretty soon. But her husband was a little sketchy I believe, and there's been speculation about drugs and an ED in the past.

[Oregone]

4. "I didn't want to sound too crash"

Yeah, but Im on a roll so fuck it

[kaylynwright]

6. "I'm on a roll"

You just said what I wanted to. :-)

[Lex]

22. OMG, that's awesome. nt

[blueamy66]

91. Isn't is crass, not crash

?

[kaylynwright]

98. Yep

I definitely jumbled those words. :-)

[Onceuponalife]

128. ED=erectile dysfunction....?

[freeplessinseattle]

137. eating disorder n/t

[joeunderdog]

148. I don't think so.

You'd have to be dead...

[rucky]

3. Mixing prescription drugs seems to be the trend with these.

I guess we'll know soon enough.

[kaylynwright]

5. Sounds likely

Sounds likely. Hopefully with so many big-name deaths caused by prescription drugs, the doctors who are handing them out like candy will start getting some heat. Drugs aren't to be taken like candy, prescription or not. And sadly, when non-famous people die of this, it's pushed under the rug.

[girl gone mad]

131. Likely drugs. Her husband was just hospitalized recently..

with a similar health issue.

Shame. She was talented.

Edit: I can't spell today.

[PatrynXX]

146. ironically I ripped out a pic this morning about 4am out of Us Weekly

which I canceled because I can't stand them, thinking she was way too thin. But they don't go into sudden death 4-5 hours later.... I'm on Ritalin LA which has such a black box warning.

if one takes a look on pix here (the latest ones) http://www.bombgirls.info/Brittany_Murphy or just change that to lazygirls.info in the middle, bombgirls is for us uncensored people... she's looking thin below the waist.


Hate the fucking rumor mill though. which indeed up above says drugs... to the hubby gave her drugs to suicide to idiots on imdb.com claiming to be in the shower with her when she died. Souless pricks those comments are.

All I know is this nice cute angel is dead and the rumor mill is going(including the latest that the husband doesn't want an autopsy, which anyone who watches CSI... knows, it's the law, it must be done.) I will attest if that husband did actually cause her death, he's in a world of hate.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

153. A neighbor that saw her on the stretcher when she

was removed from her home said, her face was covered with a mask, but from what she saw she looked like an old woman.
That sounds like anorexia.

[Libertas1776]

7. I especially remember her as

the voice of Luanne on "King of the Hill." How very sad.


It seems likely that it could be drug related. Although, people younger than that have died of various heart ailments both diagnosed and undiagnosed so it can't be immediately ruled out.

[Warpy]

16. I know of a 20 year old who blew out a third of her heart muscle

smoking a cigarette. She was healthy, drug free, and had clean coronary arteries. The nicotine caused a spasm just as a clump of blood cells was moving through and she had a massive heart attack.

It's highly unusual for this to happen in the young, but it's certainly not unheard of.

Sympathy to her family, especially her husband.

[Cleita]

18. Seems to me like anorexia to me, which can cause fatal heart attacks in young people.

This is very sad and this is an industry that forces young women to be ten pounds underweight for the camera. However, we are just speculating until the coroner's report comes out.

[XemaSab]

124. Ten pounds underweight?

More like 30 lbs underweight for most of those girls. :(

[spoony]

26. To me, too.

I usually watch King of the Hill every night during the Adult Swim lineup.

[Sparkly]

8. Oh, I am so sorry to hear it.

:(

[tridim]

9. Whoa! So young.

Is King of The Hill still in production?

[Libertas1776]

10. No, actually, they ended

the series this past fall.

[mopinko]

15. i don't think so.

seems to me there was a final episode recently. funny show.

[tridim]

19. I liked some of the early shows, but much like the Simpsons it ran its course.

Good to know that Judge wrapped it up before it started getting really bad.

I can't even watch the Simpsons any more. :(

[tammywammy]

11. She was so young

Everything I've seen with her in it, I've liked it. Very sad.

[inna]

12. I'm shocked. What happened??

RIP.

[charlie]

13. Looks like the only movie I've seen her in is Sin City

So, I don't really know who she is.

However, I just found that she was the voice of Gloria in Happy Feet, which I love. WOW, could that lady sing.

[otohara]

14. She Was Adorable

this is sad news indeed.

[earth mom]

25. I just watched the movie The Groomsman a couple of days ago and Brittany was in it.

She was really adorable in this Tears for Fears video called "Closest Thing to Heaven": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_5X7oUZWQ

RIP Brittany. :cry:

[Iggo]

136. Goddam right she was.

It really is just too too sad.

[inna]

17. I liked her a whole lot.

This is so sad.




:cry:

[inna]

84. Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany_Murphy

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. Very sad.

She seemed like a nice person, too.

[Deja Q]

21. way too young

[Blue_In_AK]

23. This is sad

but not a huge surprise. I loved her so much in Clueless, but she seemed to be having a really hard time of late, just from appearances.

[spoony]

24. Damn, damn damn

Right before Christmas too, I know how much that adds to the grief.

[janedum]

27. OBVIOUSLY Anorexic. Probably STARVED herself to death.

[CatWoman]

28. kick

[wndycty]

29. Brittany Murphy Dies

Source: TMZ

Brittany Murphy died early this morning after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived, multiple sources tell TMZ.

She was 32.

A 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, the Los Angeles City Fire Department tells TMZ.

We're told Murphy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
-snip-

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/20/brittany-murphy-dies-cardiac-arrest/

[inthebrain]

30. I'm shocked

Just read that 15 minuted ago.

Only 32? Really sad.

[Patsy Stone]

31. Wow.

That's shocking. Peace to her family.

[BeyondGeography]

32. She looks skeletal in that photo

[Kahuna]

49. She definately looks like she had an eating disorder as she was not

a naturally thin girl. Unfortunately she may have suffered the same eating disorder and consequences as Karen Carpenter.

[Hepburn]

59. When I heard it was a cardiac arrest...

...my first thought was "anorexia...just like Karen Carpenter."

[DesertRat]

125. My first thought as well

I guess that dates us. ;)

[niyad]

159. and my first thought, as well. in karen's case, she was actually attempting to heal from the

disorder when she died.

[MineralMan]

33. I always liked her. Too bad.

First saw here in Clueless, one of the films on my list of "Perfect Movies." Stupid, but perfect.

[malaise]

133. Loved that movie

and that's where I first saw her.

[PopSixSquish]

34. Oh Goodness!

Bless her family in this terrible time...

[Itchinjim]

35. Not to be unsympathetic, but who is Brittany Murphy?

[proud2BlibKansan]

38. An actress

[DavidDvorkin]

40. Actress, apparently.

[PeaceNikki]

44. Pretty long resume for being only 32

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005261/

[CatWoman]

45. I had the same question

:shrug:

[stopbush]

52. One of the few avowed Republicans in Hollywood.

Also a religious nut Xian and a buy American spokesperson. She was a good actress.

[ButterflyBlood]

58. I saw that on a parody blog but nowhere else

She was a Christian but never saw any evidence she was a fundie or Republican. Would be odd doing movies like "Spun" if so.

RIP.

[soleft]

67. She was also in If These Walls Could Talk II

Where she played a gay woman kicked out of the military.

[Romulox]

70. Buy American? The monster! nt

[ButterflyBlood]

158. It's not even true. He's probably confused and thinking of this:

http://shelleytherepublican.com/2007/04/26/strs-role-model-of-the-week-brittany-murphy.aspx

A clear case of satire. The stated interview is real and she was a Christian, but I've never seen any evidence of her being a fundie or Republican.

[spoony]

163. Thank you for clearing that up. nt

[inna]

142. this is really in bad taste.

[ButterflyBlood]

157. It's also not true

The only thing of the sort I found referring to this is here: http://shelleytherepublican.com/2007/04/26/strs-role-model-of-the-week-brittany-murphy.aspx

That blog is obviously satire if you read further.

[PeaceNikki]

36. Oh no!!

:(

[Donnachaidh]

37. did you see the picture at the link?

As thin as she was, I wouldn't be surprised if anorexia was the cause of the problem. Look at her shoulders! :wow:

[liberalmuse]

39. That's really sad.

She was into drugs and I could never understand why she married that slimeball. He was just in the hospital a couple weeks ago - likely related to drug use. That's just too young to die.

[girl gone mad]

132. Yep.

He was so sleazy looking. She could have done much better. I thought at the time maybe he was her connection or dealer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. Oh how sad

[rsmith6621]

42. A Beautiful Hollywood Hottie Has Left Us

RIP

[question everything]

43. So young! Was she in the movie with Eminem? (nt)

[sixmile]

46. From King of the Hill

Luanne (Hank's niece)

[Mojambo]

47. Hard living.

RIP.

[CoffeeCat]

48. Look at the difference between these pictures...

Just another girl trying to live up to the images in the magazines...

This is when she was in Clueless...


Now...

[Bucky]

51. I wonder if it's the weight loss or the chemical help she used to get the weight loss

But the change from the round faced kid to the skel-n-skins look in that picture on TMZ's site is striking.

[mrbarber]

80. Judging from the second photo, I'm going to say drugs.

This is heartbreaking to me, I've really liked her since I first saw her in Freeway. A really big fan of her voiceover work. Amazing singer also.

May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

[euphoria12leo]

50. Really sad to hear

RIP Brittany.

[sasquatch]

53. Poor girl

[skoalyman]

54. rip

;(

[Bluenorthwest]

55. That is sad news

She was a talented woman. I enjoyed her work very much. We are fragile things.

[bluevoter4life]

56. No mean to be an insensitive prick

But I haven't seen it on any of the more reputable news sources. Not even Fox. I'll wait until I get confirmation.

[PeaceNikki]

60. HuffPo is reporting it, too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-groner/brittany-murphy-was-recen_b_398594.html

Mind you, it links to NY Daily News which cites TMZ. They may be "trashy", but they're usually good at scooping this stuff.

[BeyondGeography]

61. TMZ wouldn't be in business if it got these stories wrong

Anyway, take your pick:

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GZAZ_enUS346US348&q=brittany+murphy+dies&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&ei=x4AuS5HKCpLwsgOcvo3FBA&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAwQsQQwAA

[PeaceNikki]

83. On the AP now

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9386321

[chrisa]

57. Wow. Unreal.

RIP

[upstandingcitizens]

66. She was hot

what a shame to die so young.

[rd_kent]

73. .

[PeaceNikki]

74. Uh, it was combined.

There was an LBN link that was moved and combined in this thread. In fact, the post to which you replied was an OP in LBN.

[rd_kent]

76. Yep, I see that now. deleting.

[Name removed]

87. Deleted sub-thread

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[AngryAmish]

62. She was outlived by Shane MacGowan

THat is just embarrassing.

[asjr]

63. That is what happened to the singer Karen

Carpenter. She was anorexic and died of heart failure. She had a wonderful voice and I still hear her records played on the radio.

[shadowknows69]

64. What a damn shame. Too young. RIP Brittany

And as far as the speculators go? Sometimes young people do die of things other than drugs and eating disorders. Granted, in Hollywood these things usually end up being tragedies, but can we wait for the body to get cold?9

[Catherine Vincent]

79. What's the difference?

If a poster will be an ass and disrespect the dead, let them. You of all people should know. :eyes:

[shadowknows69]

155. Last I checked Brittany didn't diddle little boys like your God probably did.

[Catherine Vincent]

164. As I said..

be an ass disrespecting the dead. You're so good at it.

[soleft]

65. She was very talented.

[Blue_In_AK]

68. Did anyone but me see a movie called

"The Dead Girl," in which Brittany played the title role? Foreshadowing perhaps?

[soleft]

69. Brilliant little movie - she was incredible

[Blue_In_AK]

71. She WAS incredible in that movie.

I was very moved by it.

[Gwendolyn]

82. That was a great flick! Definitely worth a watch.

She was lovely in her movies, always evoked a vulnerability.

[TexasObserver]

95. Yes, she was excellent in "Dead Girl," and likewise in "Spun."

After her early success in Girl Interrupted, she seemed obsessive with getting and staying thin.

She looked and behaved as if she might have a problem with uppers/meth/coke.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

72. Too bad. She was good in CLUELESS and GIRL INTERUPTED

[endless october]

75. i always liked her work.

RIP.

[Mad_Dem_X]

77. So sad.

Condolences to the family. 32 is way too young. :(

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

78. very sad

I enjoyed her work and thought she was way more talented than a lot of the hollywood poptarts.

Too young. RIP

[Regret My New Name]

81. Pretty damn young...

[bridgit]

85. It is sad, we were talking about her work in Sin City & Spun, it can all be tough sometimes

[gauguin57]

86. She lost so much weight so fast several years ago. She looked skeletal.

I'm afraid that's a definite possibility. So sad when someone this young dies.

[spanone]

88. lot's of bill fristing going on in this thread

:shrug:

[cali]

90. well, yeah, but it is understandable that people would speculate

about why a 32 year old woman would die from a heart attack- particularly as she was very, very thin.

[asdjrocky]

93. The difference?

We're not on the Senate floor, we're not Senators, and we're not passing legislation that will effect millions of people, and we're not doctors.

Other than that, yeah, it's exactly the same.

[Gwendolyn]

89. She was also great in an Ed Burns flick - Sidewalks of New York.

Very funny ensemble movie, mocumentary style, about love and intersecting relationships.

TMZ also reported that her husband was rushed to the hospital only a few weeks ago straight from a flight from Puerto Rico. People thought it was strange that she didn't want the paramedics to take him and the rumors were it was all about drugs. That seems to be the grist of the rumor mill here too.

Very sad.

[alp227]

92. R.I.P...and until the coroner's office confirms, let's stick to the facts and not speculation

So far I'll just say it was cardiac arrest, but I'd rather not guess what caused it. However, it's a fact that Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest, and he was getting anorexic and had drug problems before he died. The only Murphy film I've seen was 8 Mile, but I watched that because I'm an Eminem fan.

[CBGLuthier]

141. wouldn't that be nice

I think some of the children here don't know that people drop dead at all ages for no cause other than an undetected defect. Certainly not people close to their ages. Only "old" people like John Ritter die like that.

[L0oniX]

94. Cocaine ...my bet.

[inna]

96. :facepalm:

nice comment/profile. not.

:wtf:

[Malikshah]

97. She was brilliant in Love and other Disasters-- a fun movie that my partner and

I can watch endlessly...

R.I.P.

[Kerrytravelers]

99. Actress Brittany Murphy, 32, dead from cardiac arrest

http://www.tmz.com/

Brittany Murphy died early this morning after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived, multiple sources tell TMZ.

She was 32.

A 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, the Los Angeles City Fire Department tells TMZ.

UPDATE 3:11 PM ET -- Sources tell TMZ Brittany Murphy's mom discovered her unconscious in the shower. We're told when paramedics arrived, they quickly determined Murphy was in full cardiac arrest and immediately administered CPR. They continued CPR in route to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center -- several miles away -- and Murphy was unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

We're told the LA County Coroner's is picking up Murphy's body from Cedars later today and will launch an investigation.

A friend of mine worked with her recently. He and his wife, who also met with her, are so sad about this. They called to tell me. (I do not know her.) And then I found this on TMZ.




Here are some additional sources:
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/coroner-brittany-murphy-dead-at-32/32963?nc

http://www2.turnto10.com/jar/entertainment/local/article/report_birttany_murphy_dies_at_32/28597/



http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/los-angeles-police-have-opened-an-investigation-into-circumstances-surrounding-the-death-of-actress-brittany-murphy----polic.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/20/brittany-murphy-dead-dies_n_398576.html

[edhopper]

100. So sad

I loved here work in Happy Feet.

[Oregone]

101. You read TMZ?

[Kerrytravelers]

104. No, but it was one simple source. I found out through a friend who worked with her recetnly.

I edited my OP to add some additional sources.

[Blasphemer]

102. Oh wow... R.I.P. Brittany... nt

[vadawg]

103. i got no idea who she is, sad though when someone dies young..

[DailyGrind51]

108. She co-starred in "Clueless" and "The Devil's Arithmetic".

She is also the voice of Hank's niece LouAnne on "King of the Hill".

[PeaceNikki]

105. So young and talented.

You made me think of a strange (unrelated) scenario. There were already a couple threads on this combined here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7281629 - would/could mods combine a thread into an ignored user's already existent thread? Would it just appear to have been deleted to the user whose thread becomes the "child" to a parent thread started by an ignored user?

I have to image that happens at times, right? It'd be easy to "dupe" when you're ignoring someone or many someones.

[Kerrytravelers]

150. Gee. I don't know how that would work.

I'm not ignoring anyone, so my thread was easily combined.

Generally, we don't mind dupes, except in LBN, so I honestly don't deal with combining very often (I'm in Lounge and Political Videos.)

I would think that we could combine two threads of users who had one another on ignore. Since the action is coming from someone other than the two members who are ignoring one another, I don't think the move would be rejected by the program.

In terms of how it would look to the two DUers themselves, just the posts written by the ignored member would be blank. All the other posts would show up just fine, I would assume.

I am not a techie, in terms of formatting and functioning on computers. I just click the little button and it goes *poof* and magical things happen! :rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

106. Looks like Cali posted this two hours ago. Her link is below:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7281629

[Nikki Stone1]

111. Yeah, but this OP has a personal link to the star via friends, so I like this thread better.

:evilgrin:

:hide:

[Kerrytravelers]

117. It's all about who you know, baby!

:rofl:

[glinda]

107. She looks awfully thin. Saw her on Craig Ferguson and did not recognize her at all.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

110. She was adorable in Clueless. Very sad.

[K8-EEE]

114. I have to admit the first thing I thought of was Karen Carpenter

I believe she also died of a heart attack in the shower but it was brought on by her eating disorder.

Although I'm sure some people just have heart attacks young because they have an undiagnosed heart problem, she has been looking skinny the last couple of years.

[Blasphemer]

122. It is believed that she suffered from an eating disorder... very sad... nt

[Syrinx]

109. sad

[unabelladonna]

112. what is it

that makes people who seemingly have everything feel the need to escape? rhetorical question......it's so sad.

[stopbush]

113. Please check for DUPES. Yours is the 5th post on this today.

[PeaceNikki]

115. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7282339&mesg_id=7282445

[Kerrytravelers]

116. Yes, thank you. I am aware of that now. When I posted, I ran a search, but it did not come up.

Perhaps I spelled her name incorrectly. Anyway, I've already alerted to have my thread combined. When the forum mods get to my self alert, they will take care of it.

And really, you don't have to click on a repeated topic. ;-)

[Bluebear]

118. If one is ignoring a poster, the search will not reveal anything, for example.

Sorry you're irritated but that is one possible scenario.

[TorchTheWitch]

123. I don't think mods can have anyone on ignore

otherwise they wouldn't be able to access any posts that they may need to moderate.

[Kerrytravelers]

130. I have no one on ignore.

[blondeatlast]

119. And your response kicked it up. Let adults talk about what they want to talk about,

okay?

[lib_wit_it]

120. Yes, but I agree that it is hard enough to try to keep up with everything, and dupe topics make it

more so, imho.

[Kerrytravelers]

121. This happens, which is why the moderators have an option to combine threads.

Since GD is not my assigned forum, I am not comfortable combining my thread. I'll let the GD mods take care of that. I alerted on my own OP, and when the forum mods get to my alert, they'll take action. When you see duplicate topics, go ahead and just alert. It's no big deal. Responding just kicks the thread and doesn't get the attention of the moderators (ok, it did this time because it is my thread, but normally, you can't reply of this to get the moderators' attention. Alert is your friend!)


Or, you could just click that little "x" next to the thread. Before I was a mod, I did this all the time on topics that didn't interest me.

[lib_wit_it]

134. Just about everything interests me! : ) Sometimes I think it's better to have more than one thread

on a topic, as once they get really long it's hard to follow. But when there are many multiples it gets confusing. But then, I'm easily confused...

Thanks to you and all the mods for all you do. :)

[Kerrytravelers]

138. I am the same way. When a thread goes on and on and on with ten million subthreads...

... it is hell to get through sometimes, even if the topic is totally interesting!

I usually take the opportunity, when it arises, to lay out some housekeeping options, like alerting, combining, etc.

:hi:

[cali]

140. please check the time on a post before concluding it's a dupe, dear.

Mine was the first post on this. Way to make yourself look foolish though. go for it.

[inna]

143. His/her post is most informative so far.

No reason to be bitter. :shrug:

[proteus_lives]

126. R.I.P.

I loved King of the Hill and Clueless.

She was in a bunch of good things, very underrated.

Prayers and good thoughts for her loved ones.

[calico1]

127. I am sorry to hear that. She was a very talented young

actress.

[O is 44]

129. shockingly sad.. n/t

[Feron]

135. That's very sad.

I liked her and I was hoping that she would make a comeback. :(

[mrs_p]

139. this actually makes me sad

for some reason. RIP and prayers for her family.

[freddie mertz]

144. Horrible. MUCH too young.

Great voice work on King of the Hill.

[BeHereNow]

145. Too wierd. A class mate of my daughter had the same name. Died at 21.

I was thinking of her today... and now this.
http://www.christianmemorials.com/tributes/brittany-murphy/

BHN

[Kerrytravelers]

151. How sad. Twenty-one is way too young to die.

Take a look at the wall where you can leave a message. People are not paying attention and writing as if this young lady is the actress Brittany Murphy.

[BeHereNow]

160. I saw that... people mistaking her for the Brittany who died today.

I would think that would be hard on the family.
People leaving messages, not ever taking the time to read about
the Brittany who the memorial page was intended for.
I remember her well, a very talented artist and a beautiful girl.

I have to tell you, I was totally freaked out that
the actress of the same name died today at such a young age also.

I had been thinking about the other Brittany today, just a year older than
my daughter, wondering how in the hell a family gets through the holidays
with such a loss...

To both, who share the same name and the fate of dying much too young;
Rest in Peace.

BHN
:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Blandocyte]

147. Rest in peace, "Sug"

short for sugar.

[REP]

149. She'd just been fired from a movie for disruptive behavior about 3 weeks ago

Judging from that, and her vowing to wreak havoc on the set after being fired, sounds like drugs.

[Libertas1776]

152. Natural causes...

according to this latest release, M.E. thinks she died of natural causes; autopsy planned.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34500671/ns/entertainment-celebrities/

At 32, that sounds really strange, but of course as I said in an earlier post, it was probably some kind of heart defect. Poor dear, such a shame.

[cbdo2007]

154. Nah, things here are too strange.....her husband was hospitalized a few weeks ago

after a flight and Brittany didn't even want to call 911 though he was unconscious? That sounds familiar to what's happening here with her husband not wanting an autopsy?? They're hiding something.

http://www.tmz.com/category/brittany-murphy/

Scroll down there at TMZ to read their strange past couple of weeks. Too many strange circumstances to be "natural causes" here.

[Kerrytravelers]

156. When my brother-in-law was 33, he died of cardiac arrest.

He died at home, early in the morning, with his wife and children there. It was tragic. And completely unexpected. Due to his age and the circumstance of dying at home, the San Diego ME required an autopsy, which no one in the family objected to, as we all wanted to know what happened, too. It turns out, he had an enlarged heart and no one ever knew. It was ruled a natural cause.

[Libertas1776]

161. So tragic

Sorry for your loss. Things like that indeed frighten me how someone apparently in the prime of their life, fit, young, and healthy, can have a ticking time bomb in their chest that no one knows about. I remember hearing on the news a few years ago about a 12 year old boy scout dropping dead in his tracks at a summer camp or something to that effect. He too had an undiagnosed heart defect.

No matter how young and healthy and skinny you may be or feel, it is always pinnacle to be mindful of your body and subtle warning signs (although, sadly, sometimes even this isn't even possible)

[Kerrytravelers]

162. You are so correct.

Since the death of his brother, Mr. kt has been very mindful of his health. After the death, he went to our doctor, who ran a whole battery of tests on his heart, etc., just to be sure and for Mr. kt's peace of mind.

And even with all this, you just never know. It is terribly sad. And if she did take too many prescription pills, wasn't eating properly or any number of things, the family will forever blame themselves for not stopping her, even though she is an adult and can do as she chooses. We often feel that way about my brother-in-law. He wouldn't go to a doctor for even the most routine check up. And now look. A 29 year old widow and three kids without their daddy.