What Killed Brittany Murphy? a Look Past the Coroner's Autopsy Report

While the coroner's office is still yet to make it as final conclusion as to the actual cause of Brittany Murphy's death it is known that she did suffer from a cardiac arrest. While it wouldn't be unusual for a cardiac arrest to kill someone, when that someone is a 32-year-old seemingly healthy actress there is obviously more at play than what meets the eye. The website TMZ stated that many drugs were found at Brittany Murphy's home on Tuesday, among the drugs found were Topamax, Klonopin, Ativan and Hydrocodone, all of which are well known drugs in dealing with addiction.

Most of these drugs are at a form of opiate, which are basically relaxants that are used to treat everything from anxiety, to stress caused when quitting other drugs. There has been some suggestion that Brittany Murphy was also dealing with a addiction to heroin and or cocaine. While it was known that Brittany Murphy carried on a rampant nightlife, much like Lindsay Lowhan, has over the last few years, she did not garner the sort of media attention as Lindsay has, and was able to keep it out of the public eye much better.

Brittany Murphy is the latest star in a seemingly non-ending list of stars that have recently had early deaths that, at least in some ways was attributable to prescription drugs, the stars include Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, and more. At some point the focus is going to turn away from the stars that are being hurt by these prescription drugs and towards the medical staff that are apparently able to be attained by the stars to get the prescriptions that are killing them.

In Brittany Murphy's case there is a little bit of a difference, not only was she known to be dealing with drug addictions, however she was also known to have a weight issue and recently commented that her weight was a little less than she would want at a sparing 109 pounds. There has been much speculation that Brittany Murphy suffered from severe anorexia and that certain times had trouble on set due to sporadic behavior that was attributed to her problems with malnutrition.

So while the exact details as to what killed Brittany Murphy may still be forthcoming from the coroner's office, there are long line of suspects, and no matter which actually killed her, made the end of her life a tragic and sad thing for any 32-year-old woman to have to deal with. In a year that has seen many well-known stars pass away, not the least of which being Michael Jackson, let's hope that the lesson that can be learned from this poor girl's suffrage does not go unnoticed. And while her husband has requested that a toxicology report not be released to the public perhaps, with the knowledge that these prescription drugs can be, and are dangerous, other lives can be saved in something good can become of all of this.