On January 8, Elvis Presley would have been 89 years old. Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, at his Graceland home. He was only 42 years old. The world was shocked and couldn’t believe it.
Since Elvis Presley’s family chose to keep the autopsy results secret for 50 years, no one knows much about what happened before he died. This has led to a lot of talk about how he died. Some people say he died of a drug overdose, while others say he died of a heart attack, and so on.
Ginger Alden, his last girlfriend, wrote a book about what it was like when he was dying. Alden found the star’s body with his pajama bottoms around his ankles and his bottom in the air. Ginger, who was only 21 at the time, wrote in her memoir about the sad scene.
His arms lay on the ground, close to his sides, palms facing upward.
It was clear that, from the moment he landed on the floor, Elvis hadn’t moved,
the memoir added.
I gently turned his face toward me. A hint of air expelled from his nose.
She continued
The tip of his tongue was clenched between his teeth and his face was blotchy. I gently raised one eyelid. His eye was staring straight ahead and blood red.
After using drugs for many years, Elvis Presley was sick for the last ten years of his life. Some people say he died of a drug overdose, but coroner Joseph Davis put an end to that story when he looked into his death again in 1994.
The position of Elvis’s body was such that he was about to sit down on the commode when the seizure occurred. He pitched forward onto the carpet, his rear in the air, and was dead by the time he hit the floor,
he explained.
If it had been a drug overdose, Elvis would have slipped into an increasing state of slumber. He would have pulled up his pyjama bottoms and crawled to the door to seek help. It takes hours to die from drugs,
he added.
Forest Tennant, a doctor in California, had another important piece of information about how Elvis Presley died. Dr. Tennant said that the fact that Elvis’s whole body was getting worse was a big clue. Even though he used drugs and ate horribly, Dr. Tennant couldn’t figure out why his stomach, liver, lungs, heart, spine, eyes, and bowel were getting worse. He thinks it all started when the singer got a serious head injury in 1967, which led to an autoimmune inflammatory disorder that got worse over time. He says that the injury was so bad that it caused brain tissue to come loose and leak into his bloodstream. Dr. Tennant thought that the body saw the substance as foreign and started making antibodies to kill it. This caused a disorder of the immune system called hypogammaglobulinemia.
But the world won’t know what killed the legend until 2027 because the results of the autopsy will be kept secret until then.
