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originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: MotherMayEye
I also get why he mentioned it. It's not normal for a person to lay down with a pillow over their head, to most people. That may be how he normally slept, but to the reporter it was unusual, even to me it's unusual, but not necessarily nefarious.
originally posted by: megabogie
I'm late to the game and not sure if it's been mentioned but Patton had no autopsy either. And we're still talking about that all these years later
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: MotherMayEye
I'm saying that most people don't sleep with a pillow over their head, so it seems unusual. That doesn't mean nefarious though. I didn't say crap about heart problems, or weight, now did I thank you, so you can drop your snark. Some people sleep differently, and this may have been how he slept for years. It was mentioned in an interview, so the reporter included it, as it seemed unusual IMO.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: MotherMayEye
Unless he sat down on the bed, to take his shoes off or something, and had a massive heart attack, or some kind of event that killed him almost immediately, and fell back onto the bed, and appeared like he was asleep.
originally posted by: muse7
So if he was found with a pillow over his head why aren't his friends more upset about it?
He was either found with a pillow over his head or the newspaper didn't do a good job of quoting his friend.
I know if I found my friend with a pillow over his head and dead in bed I would be raising hell and not calmly giving out interviews to news papers.
But Garner said Scalia never mentioned any other ailments other than that he was dealing with a "head cold."
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: MotherMayEye
But all they said that I saw was that he was laying on the bed with the pillow over his head. He's still laying on the bed, even in that case.
"If it had been me . . . I would want to know,” Juanita Bishop, a justice of the peace in Presidio, Tex., said in an interview Sunday of the chaotic hours after Scalia’s death at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a luxury compound less than an hour from the Mexican border and about 40 miles south of Marfa.
In a statement Sunday, the U.S. Marshals Service, which provides security for Supreme Court justices, said that Scalia had declined a security detail while at the ranch, so marshals were not present when he died.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: MotherMayEye
I knew a guy that was severely overweight, with the related health issues, including severe sleep apnea, that slept flat on his back every night.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: Zaphod58
But, then again, I am skeptical of that. The man supposedly had a severe heart failure issue and was overweight. He would have had some degree of shortness of breath lying flat -- probably pretty bad.