Well, in this context, "resting comfortably" can be construed as being true. And his condition is stable....
I confess to being interested due to my, well, predilection with cardiac conditions -- would a portable defibrillator (assuming, of course, it was used correctly) have saved his life? I'm doubtful -- hell, he went through enough stress by the time he was ten than most of us see in a lifetime, and he had enough peripheral conditions and treatments that I can see a body falling apart under the strain. Still, by any metric, 50 is still too damned soon.
(My sister-in-law was telling me about the publicly-available portable defibrillators they had in airports up in her woods for just such emergencies that had very simple instructions -- only problem was that their pulse sensors were either badly tuned or just not working, because even when you put the sensors on a living, breathing, viable person, the machine would howl out "DEAD BODY DEAD BODY DEAD BODY" at an insane and nerve-racking volume....)
And we haven't had a real dead pool in a long time -- not since Bob Hope was still around. But MJ wouldn't have been on my list -- Farrah, Swayze and Cronkite, sure, but those are almost gimmes. When I get worried that it's getting macabre, that's a warning sign.
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I confess to being interested due to my, well, predilection with cardiac conditions -- would a portable defibrillator (assuming, of course, it was used correctly) have saved his life? I'm doubtful -- hell, he went through enough stress by the time he was ten than most of us see in a lifetime, and he had enough peripheral conditions and treatments that I can see a body falling apart under the strain. Still, by any metric, 50 is still too damned soon.
(My sister-in-law was telling me about the publicly-available portable defibrillators they had in airports up in her woods for just such emergencies that had very simple instructions -- only problem was that their pulse sensors were either badly tuned or just not working, because even when you put the sensors on a living, breathing, viable person, the machine would howl out "DEAD BODY DEAD BODY DEAD BODY" at an insane and nerve-racking volume....)
And we haven't had a real dead pool in a long time -- not since Bob Hope was still around. But MJ wouldn't have been on my list -- Farrah, Swayze and Cronkite, sure, but those are almost gimmes. When I get worried that it's getting macabre, that's a warning sign.