2007-02-02 01:39:26 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Olympics
Yes.
In 1998, Griffith Joyner died in her sleep at her home in Mission Viejo, California. On October 22, the sheriff-coroner's office announced the cause of death as: "1) positional asphyxia 2) epileptiform seizure 3) cavernous angioma, left orbital frontal cerebrum".[1]
The cavernous angioma referred to a brain abnormality discovered during the autopsy that made Joyner subject to seizures. It is in fact, a congenital defect, having developed at birth.[2] In 1990 she had, according to a family attorney, suffered a grand mal seizure and had been treated for seizures in 1990, 1993 and 1994.
The cause of death : Heart seizure
in effect said that she had suffocated in her pillow during a severe epileptic seizure
2007-02-02 02:37:44 · answer #1 · answered by moglie 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋