University president dies on podium rather than let others have their way

It sounds like she was sitting by her friend, I guess on stage, but wasn't giving a speech:

"Williams-Witherspoon, who had been sitting next to Epps before the Blockson event began, said Epps had been in good spirits and had just come from another meeting. The two were longtime friends, and Epps had told her she had read an article about Philadelphia’s new youth poet laureate and knew Williams-Witherspoon, a performance poet, would be interested.

After leaning forward to pick up some papers, Williams-Witherspoon noticed something seemed to be wrong with Epps. “I said JoAnne, are you OK?” Williams-Witherspoon recalled. “She didn’t respond. Her eyes were open. I touched her hand and said, ‘In the name of Jesus.’”

"In the name of Jesus!"

Video or it didn't happen

Respect to the lady for getting offstage just in time to spare the audience seeing her die

r4 It said she died sitting on stage - unless I misread

Snoop that I am, I went on Twitter to see if there was any video, and the first bunch of tweets all referred to the fact that Temple required people be vaccinated, implying the vaccine was to blame.

Oy, how stupid

Awkward for the audience, but at least she didn't suffer. There are worse ways to go.

Indeed, she was doing what she loved

It was probably a massive heart attack or an aneurism.

The person sitting next to her said that she leaned forward to pick up some papers, and then sat back with her eyes open, but was unresponsive.

Sounds like she died instantly.

Was Margaret White sitting next to her?

Talk about a metaphor for our current American political crisis.

Forgot to sign

xoxo,

Moment acting Temple University president JoAnne Epps, 72, rushes off stage before collapsing at memorial event - before dying in hospital

Rest in piece ate

Szhee died szchitting on shzhtage?

Szchimplee tragic!

But what a finizsh!

Very scary footage. She bolted from the stage when she fell ill

Was someone slapped?

I die on stage all the time

“What is a woman…” 🎙️

I'm not seeing the 'moment she was rushed off stage' - I'm obviously missing something!

R17 is lying, R21.

There is NO footage.

Well, it’s better than becoming frozen up there?!

r22 Figures

[quote] University president dies on podium rather than let others have their way

What are you talking about, OP? I didn't see anything in that article about her not "letting others have their way."

Where is that security officer when Mitch McConnell is giving a speech?

he was on a coffee break

[quote] What are you talking about, OP? I didn't see anything in that article about her not "letting others have their way."

It’s the Fake Headline Troll

It's quite sad actually. She really didn't want the job but was coaxed into when her predecessor was fired.

That school has had a horrible year. It's in the middle of a ghetto. One of the campus cops was murdered earlier in the year. Students have been assaulted, held hostage and killed in various incidents.

Understandably, enrollment is down.

“This is an assault on… ☠️ “

Maybe it was a sniper

A similar thing happened to a woman at my work near the end of the workday a few years ago. She was in a meeting with a colleague, and without sayin anything her head dropped down on her keyboard and she died right there. RIP to Ms. Epps (and my coworker).

Sucks in north philly

A friend of mine had the conductor having a heart attack during a performance (not his fault). Stuff like this is super weird.

Years ago a woman my sister worked with retired. They worked in an office that was half older people and half young women in their late teens/early 20s. A women Millie was an old Italian America widow. She used to bring in pans of lasagna and ziti for “the girls” because she missed cooking for more than one person. Then she retired and invited the girls to her house for lunch. She served lasagna, sat down in a chair with a cocktail, took a sip. Put her head back and stopped moving. The girls laughed because they thought she was playing a joke.

She just never moved again. They called work crying and my uncle (the boss) called police. The girls had to stay with her til police arrived and they were very distraught.

what a way to go

[quote] had the conductor having a heart attack

r34

Imagine if that retired Italian American widow died an hour after the girls left. Who knows when she might have been found?

How did they like the lasagna?

Heartstopper

I wish this was GergCake

R37 sorry. I meant,... He was a performer. I made it sound as if he hired a contract killer.

Surprised it's not actually on shared video. She lucked out to go that way - sounds very peaceful and quick.

R35 that's a nice ending.

R32, happened to a lady I know. She was eating her cereal, chatting with her husband who was washing dishes. She got suddenly quiet, so her husband looked over and she was slumped over the table. That’s how I want to go… quickly, while eating my Fruit Loops.

Or candy

I didn't know people drop dead like that in real life.

I thought it was just on TV and the movies for dramatic effect.

My uncle was a bus driver and had people sitting in the bus at the end of the line at midnight dead. So many troubled people would ride the bus back and forth to stay warm and catch some shuteye he wouldn't know who was still breathing when he went to clear the bus.

Sudden is not always peaceful.

Nor so sudden. Or public.

My mother's friend, Loretta who had polio, threw her parents a surprise 50th anniversary party and her father dropped dead of a heart attack when they yelled, "Surprise!!!"

True.

what a surprise!

Please! How much of a surprise could someone in an iron lung generate?

Loretta may have been an obnoxious cunt, but she wasn’t agile, silent, sneaky or devious enough to kill someone. They’d hear squeeking.

loretta lynn?

R35 That’s a great story. For some reason I picture it happening in the 60s or 70s.

Millie loved to cook for people and probably felt happy and at peace entertaining the young women. At least she didn’t die alone.

I remember John Ritter dropped dead on the set of 8 SIMPLE RULES. (Aneurysm?)

It was the fall of 2003, so twenty years ago already!

It was shocking because he hadn't been sick.

And he was only 55.

Very sad. RIP.

Lived a showboater, died a showboater.

Perhaps Loretta threw off her braces and danced badly.

Redd Foxx died on the set of his last sitcom with Della Reese. They thought he was doing his Fred Sanford impersonation of having a heart attack so they thought he was joking until he fell to the floor.

r60 I think he actually died in the hospital, after collapsing on set - not that it really matters.

shucks

The daily entrails had footage of the incident on their website. I didn't see the woman die in the recording, she ascending the stage, sat down behind the speaker at the podium and was immediately stricken by whatever killed her. She jumped up after sitting and left the stage, it is a 10 second clip

The daily entrails had footage of the incident on their website. I didn't see the woman die in the recording, after ascending the stage, sat down behind the speaker at the podium and was immediately stricken by whatever killed her. She jumped up after sitting and left the stage, it is a 10 second clip

[quote]The girls had to stay with her till the police arrived and they were very distraught.

But at least we got lunch.