Tina Turner, upon learning of her health issues, planned her funeral in advance.
According to RadarOnline, the renowned vocalist desired a larger funeral than her longtime rival in the music industry, Aretha Franklin.
Tina and Aretha "were fierce rivals in life," according to a source close to the musician, and Tina "was not going to let Aretha upstage her in death."
Tina Turner was already struggling with health issues after her spouse Erwin Bach donated a kidney for her transplant.
Tina Turner previously stated that she does not mind the thought of dying," with an insider disclosing that she wanted her funeral to "eclipse Aretha Franklin's."
Beyoncé's reference to Tina Turner as "The Queen" at the 2008 Grammy Awards ceremony did not go over well with Aretha, who called it a "cheap shot."
"Her ego must be enormous for her to believe she was unique!"
Tina responded after becoming aware of Aretha's remark.
In 2018, a source said that Tina Turner is selecting a designer wardrobe for her to wear while in repose, a custom hearse, a string of top performers, and an incredible gravesite that will surpass Aretha Franklin's.
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It will be Tina's final and greatest performance ever. Before Tina and Ike's divorce in 1978, it was rumored that Aretha had been having an affair with him behind her back, igniting the rivalry between the two vocalists.
Meanwhile, before her untimely death, the legendary vocalist Tina Turner issued a health warning that could help others avoid some of the problems she encountered and is also a timely rebuke of the nation's public health education and medical system.
"If I had known how high blood pressure and kidney disease are connected," the late performer wrote in an Instagram post more or less three months before she died. She added that she could have avoided a lot of suffering. As physician and medical epidemiologist Lisa Fitzpatrick notes in an article for Forbes about the devastating warning, it is shocking to learn that even a celebrity of Turner's stature, "with access to state-of-the-art healthcare," was unaware of these risks.
According to Fitzpatrick, the failure of the healthcare system to prioritize health communication and medical literacy is a damning indictment.
Turner wrote in her post that her kidneys were suffering because she did not realize that her hypertension should have been treated with conventional medicine.
She added that she has put herself in grave danger by refusing to accept the fact that I require daily, lifelong medication therapy.
As reported following her demise at age 83 last month, Turner had suffered from high blood pressure and kidney disease, with the latter leading to a kidney transplant in 2017.
According to Fitzpatrick, healthcare literacy, which is severely deficient in the United States, could have "enabled [Turner] to comprehend how her blood pressure was harmful and why inaction would inevitably lead to kidney function loss."
Fitzpatrick noted that health messaging is frequently submerged in a "sludge of corporate jargon" and that there is frequently no clear and agreed-upon method for communicating health information.
Despite the abundance of readily available information, this is all that can be said. According to the American renal Fund, high blood pressure is the second leading cause of renal failure in the United States, accounting for 28 percent of new cases. Up to one-fifth of American adults with hypertension are at risk for kidney disease. Fitzpatrick, like Turner before her, is correct in highlighting the significance of healthcare messaging and how, with improved messaging, millions of people would have a better chance of confronting these issues head-on.
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