While the autopsy report indicated Billy Mays' death was heart attack related and not head trauma caused by luggage that came out of the overhead storage during a landing that blew front tires of the plane he was returning home from. I can't help but think his widow was already contacted by the airlines to accept some form of settlement (and gag order) prior to the announcement made public from the autopsy report.
Damage control. The airline stands too loose more by not making a first offer than to risk waiting and finding a chance that it did indeed link them to his death and have a lawsuit against the airlines wind up in the courts.
The initial autopsy reports aren't 100% certain... the Medical Examiner has performed tests and the official cause of death will be issued after toxicology and other tests are completed. This usually happens in eight to ten weeks.
I did find it interesting to read he was scheduled to have hip-replacement surgery the Monday after he returned home from his flight and he was taking the prescription painkillers for hip pain.
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Fayvorite
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Jun 30 @ 8:32PM
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I think I would have had a heart attack too if on an airplane that blew a tire.
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Loreli
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Jun 30 @ 8:41PM
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I would have had heart failure right then....
But they said he had an enlarged heart. Hard telling what may have set something off. He could have died during his hip surgery. 
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SpiritOrnery
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Jun 30 @ 9:05PM
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Interesting. Maybe some pharmaceutical companies may be getting sued again.
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chatillion
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Jun 30 @ 9:25PM
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Interesting you say that. Remember the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx ?
Many years ago I injured my lower back boarding up some second floor apartment balcony sliding glass doors before a hurricane. I took the normal anti-inflammatory drugs and nothing was working. So, I ended up with 2 MRI's and a trip to a neurologist who gave me a prescription for Bextra (in the family of Vioxx) and the pain literally disappeared in 3 days. That was 20mg per day for 3 days.
They took Vioxx off the market because of some deaths and I looked into some of the lawsuits. One guy was taking 300mg of Vioxx daily for 18 months...
Yeah, don't blame the medicine. Blame the doctor for prescribing it in such high doses for such long periods of time. There wasn't anything wrong with the medicine... other than it's misuse.
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Naraku
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Jun 30 @ 10:54PM
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The thing about pills is a question of who is truly guilty. The people who make them? The people who market them? The people who pescribe them? Or the desperate people who take them?
The people who take these pills, no matter what the desperation. seek them out. People are afraid of their mortality, so they take pills to extend their lives. People fear pain and suffering. 200 years ago we didnt have this and mankind suffered. They were stronger for it. Granted it sucked, but they did it, so why cant we? Are we self entitled not to feel pain? Life extending drugs? When our heart fails, we take drugs to make it work. When our brain fails, we take prozac, lithium, ritalin, tylenol, advil, and too damn many others. Stupid, fat? We have a pill for both. Grandpa cant get a boner? We have a pill for that too.Grandma cant get turned on? Guess what? A pill for that too. *sings* This is the list that never ends, it goes on and on my friends. *stops singing and bows* We seek the out for fear of above mentioned.
The bump on the head thing? As my father says, "shit happens". Religious? "god was calling him home". Excuse me while i puke for typing that. Fate? Maybe it was just his time to go.
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