Comedian 'Joan Rivers' Dies at 81

Pioneering comedian and entertainer, 'Joan Rivers Alexandra Rosenberg' (née Molinsky) dies aged 81, on Thursday, September 4, 2014 at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York USA,  a week after suffering cardiac arrest.


Joan Rivers who has been on life support after the cardiac arrest eventually could not make it back..

Rivers suffered a cardiac arrest during throat surgery on her vocal cords at an outpatient clinic in New York on 28 August. She was rushed to Mount Sinai hospital on the Upper East Side, and was moved from its intensive care unit into a private room on Wednesday. She never regained consciousness.

The New York city department of health is investigating the circumstances that led to the cardiac arrest suffered by Rivers last Thursday. She was undergoing a minor throat procedure at Yorkville Endoscopy, which was established in 2013 and describes itself as a “state-of-the-art” facility. The health department investigation is said to be routine.

In the almost 50 years since she burst onto the scene on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rivers ascended to the pinnacle of American show business even as she skewered its excesses with her scathing wit.

A workaholic, Rivers had been hosting an online weekly talk show called In Bed with Joan, and had just filmed a special award-show episode of E!’s Fashion Police before being taken ill. She was frequently performing live stand-up, and had finished the fourth season of Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best, the reality show in which she starred with her daughter.

She wrote this to her daughter Melissa before undergoing the surgery “If anything happens, Melissa, I’ve had a great life. If I died this morning, nobody would say ‘so young.’ I’ve had an amazing life, if it ended right now — amazing life!

“You’ve been just great and you’ve come through so much, and how lucky we are,” Rivers stressed. “I love you so much.”

Rivers added, “Life is so much fun. It’s one big movie! Every minute this has been my life.”

Rivers died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, after suffering complications from a throat surgery procedure.

She is survived by her lovely Daughter Melissa.............

May her Soul Rest in Peace...........................