Which part of their head and what they hit are key. Sorry, but I've seen multiple people fall from standing height and hit their head then die of a brain bleed. They also insist that such speculation is disrespectful to Saget’s memory and to his grieving family. Some people said they know of people who died of brain bleeds after falling from a standing height. Just as quickly as those ideas are mentioned, others immediately reject them. The conspiracy theories around Saget’s death have been getting dark and not surprisingly include the specter of foul play and homicide. Rumors and conspiracy theories tend to thrive on unanswered questions and gaps in information, experts have long said.
One person tweeted, “I think there’s a bigger elephant in the room here,” “That’s where people begin to question whether there is more to the story,” Freeman said. “I doubt he thought, ‘I’m just going to sleep this off,'” Jeffrey Bazarian, an emergency physician and concussion expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center, told the New York Times.īazarian also said one blow to the head, in just the right place, could have caused Saget’s injuries, including those in the front of his head, but even if that’s in the “realm of possibility,” Freeman said the report raises questions about what investigators found that they may not have mentioned. The injuries would have left him confused, in extreme pain or unconscious. The severity of the head injuries made it difficult for experts to imagine how he could have just shrugged them off and gotten himself to bed, as his family said in their statement, the New York Times reported. Saget also had an enlarged heart, and there were signs of the coronavirus on a PCR test, but the autopsy didn’t suggest that either contributed to his death. He was found on the bed, according to the report, with his “left arm was across his chest while his right arm was resting on the bed.
The room was “orderly” with Saget’s items on the nightstand, TV stand, closet and bathroom. The autopsy report also painted a relatively peaceful scene in his hotel room, according to news reports. Police sources who spoke to TMZ initially suspected he suffered a heart attack, stroke or some other sudden medical emergency. He also was scheduled to fly home that Sunday, but when Rizzo didn’t hear from him again, she called the hotel and security was sent up to his room.Īuthorities have said all along that there was no evidence suggesting drug use or foul play. 9, Saget talked to his wife, Kelly Rizzo, by phone and he sounded “so excited coming off a great show,” a source told People in January. In the early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. The night before he had performed a two-hour set in nearby Jacksonville. Saget was found dead in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida on Jan. He said the fractures, particularly to the frontal and orbital bones, are more typically seen in “high-impact traumas,” such as a car accident or other “blunt force” trauma. In an interview with MSNBC, Washington D.C.-based neurologist Jason Freeman agreed that Saget’s injuries “go beyond” what are seen in “typical slip and falls” that occur in the bathroom, when someone hits the back of their head on the shower or bathroom floor.
“This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.” “This is significant trauma,” Gavin Britz, the chair in neurosurgery at Houston Methodist, told the New York Times. His injuries were “more reminiscent” of those suffered by someone who falls from a considerable height or get thrown from their seat in a car crash. Neurosurgeons interviewed by the Times said it would be unusual for a typical fall to cause Saget’s set of fractures. The significance of his injuries has “complicated the picture” of Saget’s death, the Times reported. The blow caused bleeding across both sides of his brain. The autopsy also showed that the 65-year-old suffered a significant blow to the head, which fractured his skull in the back, right side and front of his skull, including around the roof of his eye socket, the New York Times reported. The chief medical examiner of Orange and Osceola counties in Florida, said that his death was accidental, most likely from “an unwitnessed fall backwards” during which he struck the back of his head, the New York Times said.