How did Karen Carpenter Died?

Answer 1

On February 4, 1983, less than a month before her thirty-third birthday, Carpenter suffered heart failure at her parents' home in Downey, California. She was taken to Downey Community Hospital, where she was pronounced dead twenty minutes later. The LA coroner gave the cause of death as "heartbeat irregularities brought on by chemical imbalances associated with anorexia nervosa." Her divorce was scheduled to have been finalized that day. The autopsy stated that Carpenter's death was the result of emetine cardiotoxicity due to anorexia nervosa. Under the anatomical summary, the first item was heart failure, with anorexia as second. The third finding was cachexia, which is extremely low weight and weakness and general body decline associated with chronic disease. Emetine cardio toxicity implies that Carpenter abused ipecac syrup, an easily obtained emetic medicine that is only meant to be taken by persons who have accidentally swallowed poison.

Answer 2

NO! Karen Anne Carpenter (1950 -1983, drummer singer), suffered from Anorexia Nervosa and possibly Bulimia. Anorexia Nervosa is an illness where a person thinks they are too fat and starves themselves to death, or serious injury. Bulilimia is where a person, after eating food, throws it up in order not to get fat. Karen Anne Carpenter was the first famous person to die from anorexia nervosa and her death made it well know to the general public.

Answer 3

Cardiac arrest (heart failure) due to anorexia nervosa.