As expected, the doctors in charge of actress Anne Heche, hospitalized since August 5 after a serious car accident in Los Angeles, disconnected the artificial respirator to which she was still connected. His death was announced and confirmed on August 12.
His spokesperson Holly Baird confirmed the information, Sunday August 14, to the American site People in a brief statement:Anne Heche was peacefully disconnected from her artificial respirator.“This medical procedure will allow her family to prepare for the funeral. She had been officially declared dead two days earlier under California law because she had lost all her brain functions but her heart was artificially maintained in order to keep her organs intact. . “It has always been his longtime choice to donate his organs.“, said his representative. Thus, the OneLegacy Foundation had time to seek out potential recipients for organ donations. According to Peoplea person was able to benefit from it but his identity remains unknown.
Anne Heche, notably seen at the cinema in the films toy boy, Donnie Brasco, 6 days 7 nights or volcano, had spent six days in a coma after his serious car accident. As a reminder, the host’s ex-girlfriend Ellen DeGeneres had crashed into a house in the Mar Vista neighborhood – a generous prize pool was thrown for the woman living there – with her car, “causing structural damage as well as a heavy fire“, according to the fire department of Los Angeles. After this accident, the police had opened an investigation and carried out blood tests on the actress. If the results did not show the presence of alcohol in her blood, the site TMZ revealed for his part that the star had however tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl…
Anne Heche leaves behind two grieving children: Homer, born in 2002 and the fruit of her love affair with cameraman Coleman Laffoon, and Atlas, born in 2009 from her relationship with actor James Tupper.