Bob Saget, RIP

I never cared much for him & his style of humour. However, after seeing all the tearful tributes from his peers & friends, I think there was much more to the guy than I ever suspected. I stand corrected & have a much deeper respect for him now.

 

Posted on Gilbert's Twitter.

 

Somewhat off-topic but were you ever involved with Full House, considering you also worked on Valerie, which Miller-Boyett also produced? Full House was produced at Culver City from 1987 to 1993, before moving to Burbank afterwards.

 

No, nothing to do with Full House, which was all videotape. I was strictly a film guy in those years.

 

'AFV' to Salute Bob Saget All Season With Weekly Segment - Variety

 

This makes me sad all over again.

Bob Saget Died From Brain Bleed After Hitting His Head

 

So would this be another Natasha Richardson or Billy Mays? I think those two died from something similar.

 

Bob Saget's Wife Kelly Rizzo Remembers Their 'Happy Place'

 

Billy Mays died from heart disease and Natasha Richardson died from a head injury.

 

That's the optimal death, though. Hit your head. Fall asleep. Never wake up.

If he was really in pain from whatever he hit his head on, he would have probably been awake, taking pain meds, or maybe calling an ambulance.

The point that he felt well enough to crash for awhile makes me think that he went out peacefully.

 

Sad indeed.

 

Wow. This is really surprising and scary. I would have thought stroke or heart attack. I never thought that Drugs, etc were the culprit because Saget stayed clean in those areas. I have smacked my head really good and just went on as normal. I'm sure thousands hit their head and go to bed without thinking about it. I believe the TV informercial pitch man, Billy Mays, hit his head on the ceiling of a plane getting out of his seat to exit and died a short time later.

I guess if one really hits their head good, it's best to seek medical attention or at least stay awake for a good while. Very sad situation

 

I have had a couple, maybe three good blows to the head, but it's been decades since the last one. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.

 

CNN: Bob Saget died from head trauma, family says

 

According to the autopsy, the cause of death was heart disease.

 

it must have been some hit to the head ! it sounds a bit strange to me !

 

if its just right it doesn't have to be hard. my uncle almost had something similar happen but luckily the brain bleed was slower than it sounds like bobs was and he went to the ER when his vision started getting blurry. literally went a few days with a slow bleed from a minor blow to the side of his head

 

I’m going to choose to believe that — that the last thing he felt was his high from doing a great show that night as he drifted off to sleep, and that he died happily in his sleep with no idea what was happening to him.

 

Like Ric Ocasek. He never even stirred in his sleep as he died. His wife was right next to him, she woke up the next morning, thinking that Ric was still crashed, but he had died sometime in the night.

I doubt that Bob had much of a struggle.

 

I just remembered that Robin Harris also died unexpectedly in his hotel room in 1990, after doing a show. And he was even younger than Bob when he died. In fact, it was because of Bob's death that I remembered Robin Harris.

 

Over 30 years ago, I was at a bar and somebody busted a pool cue over the back of my head. I had a fractured skull, the left side of my head was swollen several inches, I had a gigantic black eye and I went almost totally deaf in my left ear for 3-4 days, in addition to having the very worst headache imaginable. The ER doctor told me to have somebody wake me up every 20 or 30 minutes to make sure I hadn't lost consciousness. The cops were called but nothing could be done because nobody wanted to admit they saw the guy who hit me when my back was turned. I remember the cop said "This isn't over, you have a serious head injury. You could fall over dead in a few days." Real comforting!

 

How sad. Peaceful at least.

 

Natasha Richardson was hospitalized a few hours after the accident, but still died days later in 2009. It sounds like her condition rapidly deteriorated, and she was brain dead within hours after the accident. The articles seem to say if this condition can be treated quickly enough, by evacuating the blood from the area of the brain injury, it is most likely survivable.

Was Richardson's Death Avoidable?

Richardson declined treatment at first, until she started to feel more symptoms. The first Canadian hospital she was taken to was "unequipped" to deal with the injury. By the time she was transferred to the second hospital, she was already brain dead. It sounds like she was then transferred to a NYC hospital just to let friends and family see her before she was taken off life support.

Inside Natasha Richardson's Tragic and Shocking Death

Natasha Richardson - Wikipedia

On 16 March 2009, Richardson sustained a head injury when she fell while taking a beginner skiing lesson at the Mont Tremblant Resort, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) from Montreal.[20] At first, she refused any medical help but complained of a severe headache about two hours after the accident. She was flown to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where she died two days later from an epidural hematoma.[21]