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Mexican superstar Juan Gabriel dies at 66

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Mexican superstar Juan Gabriel died of a massive heart attack in Los Angeles on Sunday (Aug. 28), sources confirm to Billboard.

Juan Gabriel was in the midst of the U.S. leg of his MeXXico Es Todos tour, a 22-city arena trek that had him playing in 360 stages to accommodate sold out crowds.

On Sunday morning, sources close to him said, he was in Los Angeles, where had played The Forum Friday night. As he readied to go to the airport to fly to El Paso, the next stop in his tour, he suffered a massive heart attack.
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7487898/juan-gabriel-dead
 
I wish the media (broadcast & print) would stop using the phrase "massive heart attack" and "massive stroke." How can anyone know how massive such an event is? Does a pathologist count how many arteries were blocked and disclose this info? I doubt it.

Or are all massive events fatal, and if they don't kill you, they're not massive?
 
My understanding is that "massive heart attack" is better described as "sudden cardiac arrest" -- a stoppage of the impulses that cause the heart to beat. It results in far more widespread damage to the heart. It doesn't have to always be fatal depending on how quickly treatment begins.
 
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