This ran yesterday as I was packing up and leaving Santa Barbara, but since I ran a Chris Penn item when he passed I need to put a cap on it. The primary cause of death was “nonspecific cardiomyopathy [plus] an oversized heart that weighed 700 grams with the effects of multiple medication intake,” according to a coroner’s statement. Promethazine with codeine “featured predominantly in his death,” according to coroner investigator Craig Harvey, who called his passing “an accident.” That’s b.s., of course. Penn committed slow improvised suicide through overeating and too much booze and too many drugs.
