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Kate Harloe

Kate Harloe Jul 11, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>:Joan Rivers died on Thursday, after going into cardiac arrest following a minor throat procedure on August 28. According to the New York Times, the State Health Department is investigating the “circumstances that led to her death.” The Daily Beast’s Tim Teeman interviewed Rivers in 2010 and asked her</p></h2>
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            <p>:Joan Rivers died on Thursday, after going into cardiac arrest following a minor throat procedure on August 28. According to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/arts/television/joan-rivers-dies.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">New York Times</a>, the State Health Department is investigating the “circumstances that led to her death.” The Daily Beast’s Tim Teeman <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/04/joan-rivers-queen-of-comedy-dies.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">interviewed</a> Rivers in 2010 and asked her about death. “I don’t fear it," she said. "With plastic surgery the general anesthetic is like black-velvety sleep, and that’s what death is – without waking up to someone clapping and going, ‘Joan, wake up, it’s all over and you’re looking pretty.’”Rivers was a comic pioneer. For a taste of her talent and presence, check out <a href="http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/554xm8/joan-rivers?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">her conversation</a> with Stephen Colbert back in 2012. “I’ve had so much plastic surgery,” she once <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/04/joan-rivers-quotes_n_5730396.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">said</a>, “when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”</p>
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:Joan Rivers died on Thursday, after going into cardiac arrest following a minor throat procedure on August 28. According to the New York Times, the State Health Department is investigating the “circumstances that led to her death.” The Daily Beast’s Tim Teeman interviewed Rivers in 2010 and asked her about death. “I don’t fear it," she said. "With plastic surgery the general anesthetic is like black-velvety sleep, and that’s what death is – without waking up to someone clapping and going, ‘Joan, wake up, it’s all over and you’re looking pretty.’”Rivers was a comic pioneer. For a taste of her talent and presence, check out her conversation with Stephen Colbert back in 2012. “I’ve had so much plastic surgery,” she once said, “when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”

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By Kate Harloe

Kate Harloe is Crosscut's Community Manager &amp; Editorial Assistant. After graduating from Hamilton College, Kate completed two seasons of work for the Southwest Conservation Corps before moving