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Mays Autopsy Shows No Drugs, No Trauma

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(Newser) – Initial autopsy results suggest that infomercial celebrity Billy Mays died of heart failure, the medical examiner announced today. The autopsy didn’t reveal any head trauma or drug abuse, both rumored causes of the 50-year-old's death, but did find hardening of his arteries, the St. Petersburg Times reports. He was also taking pain medication following recent hip surgeries, but there was no evidence they would have caused his death.

In this Dec. 6, 2002 file photo,TV pitchman Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home.
In this Dec. 6, 2002 file photo,TV pitchman Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home.   (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
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TerrifiedCitizen
Jun 29, 09 1:09 PM CDT
The adventure he experienced during landing would probably give me heart failure. Reply
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riffran
Jun 29, 09 3:35 PM CDT
I hear ya TC. Maybe he threw a clot. You can be prone to such following hip surgery or even knee surgery. A PE or pulmonary embolus, or a clot hitting the ticker, or a vital center in the brain can also do you in Reply
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