On January 8, 2022, Elvis Presley was supposed to be 89 years old.
At the age of 42, the King of Rock and Roll passed away at his home in Graceland, shocking and devasting the whole world on August 16, 1977.
But because the renowned singer's family decided to keep the autopsy results confidential for 50 years, the details surrounding his passing have remained carefully under wraps.
This quickly sparked significant theories about Elvis Presley's cause of death.
Many people said that he overdosed on drugs, but other others claimed that he had a heart attack.
Ginger Alden, Elvis' final lover, detailed his final moments in a biography she wrote before he passed away.
Ginger was the one who discovered the "Can't Help Falling In Love" singer's body in the toilet, still wearing his pajamas around his ankles.
Elvis Presley's fiancée and last love, Ginger, who was just 21 at the time, described the upsetting picture in her biography, "Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story." She described how Elvis' arms were close to his sides and pointing upward.
She also wrote, "It was clear that, from the moment he landed on the floor, Elvis hadn't moved."
Ginger stated that she also made Elvis move his face toward her, causing him to blow air out of his nostrils.
"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 years of drug usage, Elvis Presley spent the last ten years of his life in extremely poor health.
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Some said he overdosed on drugs, but coroner Joseph Davis refuted such claims after launching an inquiry into the star's 1994 death autopsy.
He clarified that Elvis' body was in a position that indicated he was ready to sit down "when the seizure happened."
He fell forward onto the carpet with his back in the air and was already dead when he touched the ground.
The expert went on to say that since drug overdoses take a long time to occur, if Elvis had actually overdosed on drugs, he would have experienced increasing sleepiness, allowing him to pull up his pajamas and crawl to the door to call for help.
Elvis Presley weighed 25 stone and spent months eating cheeseburgers in his room in the months before his death. He apparently required a full-time caregiver and, since he refused to take a bath in 1975, his body began to develop sores.
The "Ground Hog" actor suffered from chronic constipation as a result of his poor diet, and a post-mortem revealed that he had compacted excrement that was four months old sitting in his intestine.
Seven months before his passing, he also used a variety of medicines and received 9,000 different prescriptions for pills, vials, and injections.
The results of the autopsy will not be released to the public until 2027, so fans will have to wait to find out precisely what killed Elvis Presley.
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