Anne Heche In Coma, ‘Extreme Critical Condition’ Following Car Crash | HuffPost Latest News
What a terrible accident. So sorry for the woman whose house had burned down. She lost everything. Sad for Anne Heche, but nothing good can happen driving 90 miles an hour with cocaine in ones system.
That link is old news. She died.
I always like Anne Heche as an actress and thought she was beautiful. Unfortunately, she had some demons in the form of mental health and substance abuse issues that ultimately got the better of her. Hopefully the insurance coverage will be enough to enable the homeowner to rebuild.
No she hasn’t. On life support. Too bad she did this and it sounds like she had enablers or co irresponsible friends…like her podcast co host who admitted they got liquored up.
This article says she died.
She’s no longer on life support. She died.
Very sad.
Brain dead (defined as dead under California law), but still on life support to preserve organs for donation, according to the TMZ article linked above.
This is such a sad story. She clearly had some mental health/addiction issues which is sad and among others she leaves 2 young sons.
RIP Anne Heche
I’m not a doctor, but as she is being wheeled on a stretcher into the ambulance, post-accident, she can be seen by cameras overhead from news coverage as being distraught or upset about something (obviously), but to see her dead within a few days doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Just surprising to me given that she was obviously emotional after the accident and now she’s dead according to the posts above.
There is not really anything surprising about that. People can have injuries in the moment and still move around or behave strangely, then die soon thereafter.
She could have had a head injury that resulted in bleeding in the brain-death doesn’t necessarily occur instantly in that scenario. She could have had lung damage in the fire that resulted in lack of oxygen to her brain, resulting in eventual brain death. Hypoxia can cause people to be confused/restless/agitated.
There are plenty of legit reasons why someone could be conscious and appear “upset” or agitated at the scene of an accident and later succumb to their injuries. Happens all the time.
I once worked at the trauma ICU of a large county hospital. Car accidents and what they do to the human body terrified me. Saw a lot of brain dead patients there. I eventually had to get out-I couldn’t emotionally distance myself the way most nurses and doctors could.
Terrible news.
The entire event is tragic and should have been preventable.
I really hope the survivor who lost their house and possessions is getting the financial and mental/emotional help they need.
It’s a real tragedy that this is the final memory her sons are left with. I hope they’re getting the help they need as well.
May her memory be for a blessing.
It seems so strange to me to declare someone dead, but still have them hooked up to machines. I really hope they are able to use some of her organs so someone else may live.
It happens often in cases of brain death where organ donation is being contemplated. It’s hard to be the medical staff under these circumstances-blood pressure has to be maintained so that you don’t lose the organs, and sometimes keeping it up high enough is a real challenge. It is strange to consider the patient “dead” while still caring for their physical needs.
I will never forget my first patient that was in that situation. She was a beautiful young woman visiting the US for a conference of some kind when a car ran a red light and t-boned the car in which she was a passenger. I could not believe the callousness of the surgical resident who spoke to the young woman’s mother to tell her about her daughter’s accident and that she was brain dead. The patient was from South America, and the doctor didn’t even really consider that there might be a language barrier of any kind or consider the shock and grief of the moment before barreling in with the request for organ donation. I’ve often wondered if that doctor ever became a mother herself and had any kind of self reflection on that moment.
Anne was a contestant on Season 29 of Dancing with the Stars. The season premiere is 9/19, so I expect they will add a star on the ballroom floor on that date, joining Cloris Leachman, Florence Henderson, Valerie Harper, and Mary Wilson.
Condolences to her family. RIP.
Thank you, sincerely, for sharing your experiences.
I’m certainly not excusing the callousness of the doctor you described but he may have been working on an extremely short timeline to harvest organs.
She.
There is almost always a short timeline, yet most doctors/staff approach family in this scenario with compassion, grace, and empathy. This incident happened over 25 years ago, and I still remember it to this day. I wish her attending had been present so that this could have been a learning experience for her.
It’s easy to criticize people but like I told my kids a thousand times, human are not perfect.