{"id":84442,"date":"2017-01-10T00:37:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84442"},"modified":"2017-01-10T00:37:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:37:01","slug":"carrie-fishers-death-certificate-confirms-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/10\/carrie-fishers-death-certificate-confirms-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Fisher&#8217;s death certificate confirms heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84443\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/313782_173189042760420_1307321837_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84443\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/313782_173189042760420_1307321837_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued the death certificate in the name of Carrie Frances Fisher (Pictured). It was obtained Monday by The Associated Press (Photo: Carrie Fisher\/ Facebook)\" width=\"241\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/313782_173189042760420_1307321837_n.jpg 241w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/313782_173189042760420_1307321837_n-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued the death certificate in the name of Carrie Frances Fisher (Pictured). It was obtained Monday by The Associated Press (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carrieffisher\">Carrie Fisher\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013Carrie Fisher&#8217;s death certificate confirms that the actress died of a heart attack, but it says more investigation is needed to try to determine the underlying cause.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued the death certificate in the name of Carrie Frances Fisher. It was obtained Monday by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Under \u201ccause of death\u201d it says \u201ccardiac arrest\/deferred.\u201d The \u201cdeferred\u201d designation indicates that more investigation is needed by the county coroner, usually in the form of toxicology tests that can take several weeks to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher&#8217;s daughter Billie Lourd is listed as the notifying party.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher had the heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles on Dec. 23. She died at age 60 on Dec. 27 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the certificate says.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother Debbie Reynolds died the following day at another Los Angeles hospital, after having her own medical emergency while making memorial plans for her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The death certificate lists \u201cwriter\u201d as the occupation in which Fisher spent most of her life.<\/p>\n<p>It also says Fisher had been in the entertainment business for 46 years, and her highest level of education was 10th grade.<\/p>\n<p>The information in the certificate was first reported by TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher, star of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d saga, and Reynolds, the \u201cSingin&#8217; in the Rain\u201d actress, were mourned in a joint memorial at their neighbouring homes on Thursday, and had a joint funeral at a Hollywood Hills cemetery the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives have said they are now planning a public memorial for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013Carrie Fisher&#8217;s death certificate confirms that the actress died of a heart attack, but it says more investigation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[13039,13249,13250],"class_list":["post-84442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-carrie-fisher","tag-death-certificate","tag-ucla-medical-center","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}