I guess maybe the combination would bring on cardiac arrest?Leslie?
My biggest worry through all of this was the concern that Heath might have been unhappy or depressed in the time leading up to his death. Given the amount of prescribed drugs he had in his possession, I still worry about what led him to feel the need for them... again, I'm just purely worried that he might have been unhappy.The family's statement that they recently had a nice, long visit with Heath is certainly reassuring in regards to this question.
When you're exhausted, and you're ill, sometimes you'll try anything... and the fact that all the medications were prescribed gives a false sense of safety.We don't know how much time elapsed between the ingestion of each drug. I wasn't suggesting he downed a handful of every drug all at once.
He was also really ill with pneumonia, according to his co-star Christopher Plummer, and the scenario that seems most plausible to me is that he might have had a high-grade fever and that can make you really feel weird and fuzzy in your head, and because he was alone, he could have woken up and thought that he had to take a pill because it had been a few hours, when in fact it had only been an hour or so.
All of those drugs actually suppress the respiratory system, not to mention numbing certain signals in the brain... such as the ones telling your lungs to breathe. The Restoril I think is a muscle relaxant as well. He just basically halted his bodily functions by putting them all in a kind of coma, I think.this is all too much.
So he might just have stopped breathing?
Does anybody know or remember if the initial autopsy report said anything about pneumonia? They must have examined the lungs, but I don't remember reading anything about confirming that he had a respiratory infection at the time he died.
When you're exhausted, and you're ill, sometimes you'll try anything... and the fact that all the medications were prescribed gives a false sense of safety.
