what did lucille ball die of?
Aortic dissection
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 Monroe 's troubled private life received much attention . She struggled with addiction , depression , and anxiety . She had two highly publicized marriages , to baseball player Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller , which both ended in divorce . She died at the age of 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles on August 5 , 1962 . Although the death was ruled a probable suicide , several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death . 

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 Johnson had several health problems , including childhood tuberculous scrofula resulting in deep facial scarring , deafness in one ear and blindness in one eye , gout , testicular cancer , and a stroke in his final year that left him unable to speak ; his autopsy indicated that he had pulmonary fibrosis along with cardiac failure probably due to hypertension , a condition then unknown . Johnson displayed signs consistent with several diagnoses , including depression and Tourette syndrome ( TS ) . 

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 The suddenness of Bizet 's death , and awareness of his depressed mental state , fuelled rumours of suicide . Although the exact cause of death was never settled with certainty , physicians discounted such theories and eventually determined the cause as " a cardiac complication of acute articular rheumatism " . News of the death stunned Paris 's musical world ; as Galli @-@ Marié was too upset to appear , that evening 's performance of Carmen was cancelled and replaced with Boieldieu 's La dame blanche . 

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 In 1939 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and refused surgery , seeking alternative treatments . The following year , World War II separated her from Barney ; she fled Paris for England while Barney went to Italy with Brooks . She died in 1941 from causes that have never been fully explained , possibly a paraldehyde overdose . 

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 Bliss was left in the strong room for three weeks wearing a skullcap ( a heavy vice for the head ) , thumb screws , iron collar , leg irons , and irons round his ankles called sheers . One witness said the swelling in his legs was so bad that the irons on one side could no longer be seen for overflowing flesh . His wife , who was able to see him through a small hole in the door , testified that he was bleeding from the mouth and thumbs . He was given a small amount of food but the skullcap prevented him from chewing ; he had to ask another prisoner , Susannah Dodd , to chew his meat for him . He was eventually released from the prison , but his health deteriorated and he died in St. Thomas ’ s Hospital . 
