Comments on: RIP Prince

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:47:29 +0000

The trend in medicine is to move from groups of symptoms called syndromes to etiologies. Often we discover that what we originally thought was one disease is several similar diseases with different etiologies.

With the term sepsis we are moving in the opposite direction from an illness caused by a serious bacterial infection usually with bacteremia back to a group of physical signs related to an infection of some type. The theory that the cause of sepsis is not so much damage by the infection as it is dysregulated host response has been around for years but the mortality rate is still very high especially as we enter the post antibiotic era. My guess is that if we ever obtain more effective treatments for the underlying infection the death rate from sepsis will improve rapidly.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2492881

By: mollynh

mollynh — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:41:08 +0000

The *flu* that is mentioned so often in these unexpected deaths most likely is the *early stages of heart failure*.
The heart gradually peters out. It is beginning to fail as a *pump* therefore fluid is beginning to accumulate in the lungs
To the average person & the victim it seems like the *flu or a cold*. They will experience fatigue too & erroneously think those are the flu symptoms, when all along more fluid is accumulating in the lungs. Eventually the failing heart will experience a fatal arrhythmia or the fluid filled lungs will have no room for oxygen & the person succumbs to pulmonary edema (drowns if you will). Sudden OD deaths are usually pulmonary edema too, cocaine is notorious for taking people out that way.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 13:59:34 +0000

Dennis: If you read my link about sepsis, you would see that the word "sepsis" can refer to a bacterial, viral, parasitic, or fungal infection, although bacterial is the most common.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:25:33 +0000

Technically if he died of the flu then it would be speaking loosely to say that he died of sepsis since sepsis is a bacterial infection but flu is a viral infection. If he died of sepsis associated with the flu that means that the flu weakened him enough to enable a bacteria to take over. Since the flu affects the respiratory tract a pneumonia is a common complication and often leads to sepsis. Another possibility is that he thought he had the flu but actually had a bacterial infection which had symptoms which resembled the flu.

By: groundhog

groundhog — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 04:48:21 +0000

As far as talent, I’ll take 1 Prince over a 1000 Kayne Wests and his ilk.

In fact, burying Kayne West instead would be a better idea.

By: parker

parker — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 02:38:50 +0000

Hank Williams, he came up from Montgomery
With his heart full of broken country songs
Nashville, Tennessee really didn’t understand him
Cause he did things differently
Then the way they were done
But when he finally made it to the Grand Ole Oprey
He made it stand still
He ended up on alcohol and pills.

— Fred Eaglesmith

Prince was IMO talented. He owed alot to James Brown and Michael Jackson, but he was his own pop/r&b genius. And he was a master at the guitar and wrote many tunes for other vocalist . His catalog of songs is impressive. He was a troubled soul. RIP.

By: Molly NH

Molly NH — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:49:31 +0000

Sadly chronic drug users are unaware that their abuse habit causes serious damage to the myocardium, (heart muscle).
Imperceptibly their heart muscle deteriorates becoming weaker over time and the aging process.
Elizabeth Taylor was actually a chronic user of pain meds.
And would insist on Percocet & other strong narcotics for the most minor of discomforts. She passed at 80 from *heart failure*, so they trade the easy way out of some pain for diminished cardiac capacity down the road.

By: Arnaud Amalric

Arnaud Amalric — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:33:34 +0000

Jaysus wept.

It’s times like this that I very much doubt John Donne got it right. I *am* an island where it comes to this departed drug addict, and do not feel remotely diminished by his passing. Didn’t like his music either. What an age of barbarism we have been cursed to live in.

Agree with the commenter who pointed out that these outpourings of emo are because godless airheads are being forced to confront (however briefly) the abyss every time one of their favourite celebrities dies.

By: Harry The Exremeist

Harry The Exremeist — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:26:54 +0000

Prince who? Was he on Trumps campaign staff?

By: JuliB

JuliB — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:15:31 +0000

For the first time, I was truly saddened by a celebrity death. I think Mr. Britain got it right: “No, this is about his generation being subconsciously confronted, through his unexpected death… with their own mortality. ”

Prince’s music took me through high school and college and hearing it brings me back to more fun days. His being 57 is a very young age to go, regardless of the circumstances.