Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), better known as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. He is known as the “King of Rock and Roll” and is considered as one of the twentieth century’s most significant cultural leaders.
Presley’s energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performing style, al ong with a singularly potent blend of influences across color lines amid a revolutionary moment in racial relations, brought immense popularity as well as initial controversy.
When and where did Elvis Presley die?
Elvis Presley was pronounced dead at Baptist Hospital on Union Avenue, at 3:30 p.m. on August 16, 1977. He was found on the floor of his upstairs bathroom at Graceland and was taken to the hospital by a Fire Department ambulance.
He was allegedly in excellent spirits early that morning, and he was due to fly to Portland, Maine, that night to resume his 1977 concert tour. He was 42.
What killed Elvis Presley?
The Shelby County Medical Examiner, Dr. Jerry Francisco, who conducted an autopsy that day with a team of six pathologists, announced on Aug. 16 that Elvis died of cardiac arrest. (The Presley family had a history of heart problems: Elvis’ mother, Gladys Presley, died of a heart attack on August 14, 1958, at the age of 46.)
According to Francisco, Presley had “mild hypertension” and “coronary disease that had gone undetected,” and he “died in a matter of four short minutes of coronary arrhythmia, an irregular beating of the heart.”
According to the publication, Francisco determined that “there was no evidence of any drug use contributing to his death.”
Did drug use contribute to Elvis Presley’s death?
Beginning shortly after Presley’s death and continuing for several years, various investigations and reports began to attribute Elvis’ cardiac arrest to “polypharmacy” (the concurrent use of multiple drugs), which harmed what medical personnel variously referred to as Presley’s “enlarged” heart, “clogged” arteries, and “hypertensive heart disease.”
According to the Commercial Appeal, 14 narcotics were found in Presley’s blood at the time of his death, including “near toxic levels” of codeine, morphine, Placidyl, and other prescription drugs. The “overdose of depressants” likely caused him to pass out in a slumped “foetal” position, and “he died when the drugs, in combination with pressure from his body weight, brought his respiration to a halt,” according to the Memphis Press-Scimitar evening newspaper.
Presley’s drug addiction is now widely regarded as a contributing factor to his death. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Elvis Presley died of a heart attack caused mostly by drug usage in 1977.
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