Professor Vergara
ENG 1020
September 8, 2014
Joan Rivers dead at 81: Tragedy Ends Life of Legendary comedian and “Fashion Police”
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One of the most loved and hated women in the fashion and comedy industry died on September 4, 2014 Joan Alexander Molinsky (Joan Rivers). Joan Rivers was also an actress, writer, producer, and television host. How did Joan Rivers die? Some people might say “We just seen her on Fashion Police doing a segment on The Emmy’s and MTV Awards”. You just never know when it’s time you can be here today and gone tomorrow. One thing I can say is Joan Rivers lived her to the fullest, no heart aches and no pains.
Joan Rivers famous for her unapologetic love of plastic surgery as her barbed humor, never recovered after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest August 28, 2014. Later that day Joan Rivers was put on life support from that point on I knew Joan Rivers wasn’t going to make it. Joan Rivers died quietly Thursday afternoon in a Manhattan hospital suite. The room was filled with music, flowers, plants and bows after Melissa Rivers reached the heartbreaking decision to take her mother off life support. “It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers,” the comic’s only child announced in a three-paragraph statement. “She passed peacefully at 1:17pm surrounded by family and friends.
At the age 81 and going under surgery is a risky chance, don’t forget she had Osteoporosis and multiple plastic surgeries which she was still getting done. I believe all of that put a toll on her body and things just began to fail but also I think if she didn’t undergo that biopsy she would still be here making us laugh, and keeping us up to date with celebrity fashion. Joan Rivers left behind her only daughter Melissa Rivers and a grandson Edgar cooper Endicott. Her daughter made sure her hair and makeup were done before the final moments inside Mount Sinai Hospital.
Joan was the Queen to me, she was the