Brittany Murphy dies from apparent heart attack

[Knoxville]

Actress Britney Murphy, best known to fans for her roles in "Don't Say A Word," "Clueless," and "8 Mile," died of a heart attack Sunday morning. She was at a Los Angeles-area home belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, where a call was made to emergency services 8:00 AM local time. Murphy was 32.

TMZ reports that Murphy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

Murphy's death has not been confirmed by her publicist.

Story developing.

A heart attack for someone in reasonable health at her age seems an odd cause of death to me

RIP

[mikerr]

The wikipedia editors don't want to believe it, and have locked the article in a state before her reported death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Br...Reported_death

[Terbinator]

A heart attack for someone in reasonable health at her age seems an odd cause of death to me

RIP

Aren't they all in reasonable health before they die :\

[Knoxville]

Aren't they all in reasonable health before they die :\

Michael Jackson, Tony Hart, Wendy Richard, Jade Goody, Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze.... No, not really. Stephen Gately is one of the few that I'd have said was in good health before he passed on.

[Terbinator]

I meant the young-un's. I cant ebelieve you can cast jade goody in the same light as some of them above :O

[Knoxville]

I don't like even like capitalizing her name to be honest but it helped make the point. With the young-uns it's usually drug related or suicide and not that I was Brittany Murphy's best mate or anything but I don't see that being the case here, it just seems strange.

[=assassin=]

Aww what a shame, I always thought she was cute. Far too young to die :/

[steve threlfall]

Can't believe this. RIP

[Stoo]

Her name was "Brittany Murphy" guys..

[bsodmike]

For a moment there I was like "Oh, the actress that looked like a duck". Dunno why but that's how I've always remembered her, guess she pouted much. RIP!

[Lucio]

The death is certainly unusual, especially given the lack of details so far. However it could be a case of the hospital wanting to wait for the post mortem results to be compelted as it might be a case of Sudden Death Syndrome (yes that's a stupid name for a real set of symptoms)

[malfunction]

Wasn't she struggling with anorexia though? That can certainly contribute to a heart attack

[lazimutha]

I'm guessing drugs may have a part to play. Anyone else think there are loads of celebs dying these days? And I'm not talking about those that are in their 80s.

[bsodmike]

Off the top of my head: Ledger, Jackson, and now her? eek!

[Saracen]

With this type of thing, until the facts come out, who knows what caused it.

Death at that age is unusual, but certainly not unknown. A guy I knew years ago dropped dead in the office at 35. He was walking across the room, said he felt a bit woozy and went down. He didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't even touch mild "drugs" like tea or coffee let alone the proper stuff, was a vegetarian health nut and an exercise freak. He was, apparently, as healthy as extensive efforts can get you. And apparently a vein in his brain blew out, and they reckoned he was dead when he by the time he the floor. But did it happen when he was running a marathon, or pumping weights? Nope, just walking across the office.

It was suggested it was a weakness that could have gone in his childhood, or years later than it did. No way to know it was there, and no way to do anything about it.

The grip any and all of us, celeb or not, and old or not, have on this existence is rather more tenuous than we like to think.

[Lee H]

The grip any and all of us, celeb or not, and old or not, have on this existence is rather more tenuous than we like to think.

Indeed - thats why you should all enjoy life each day as it comes as you never know when the grim reaper is going to come knocking.