Ozzy Osbourne’s Cause of Death Revealed
The details of what felled the 76-year-old heavy metal icon's passing were included in a death certificate filed in London this week.
Two weeks after his passing, Ozzy Osbourne‘s cause of death has been revealed. According to The New York Times, a death certificate filed at a registry in London submitted by Osbourne’s daughter, Aimée Osbourne, cites cardiac arrest and coronary artery disease among the causes of a heart attack that felled the 76-year-old music legend; the death certificate also noted that Osbourne had Parkinson’s disease.
Specifically, the certificate, which listed Osbourne’s occupation as “songwriter, performer and rock legend,” noted that Osbourne died of “(a) Out of hospital cardiac arrest (b) Acute myocardial infarction (c) Coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction (Joint Causes).”
Osbourne died on July 22, with the certificate revealing that an air ambulance flew to his home near the village of Chalfont St. Giles in Buckinghamshire, England that day to provide “advanced critical care.” According to the Times, after stopping near Osbourne’s home, the ambulance flew approximately eight miles to Harefield Hospital in the London suburb of Uxbridge, where it spent “about an hour” at the hospital with its engines running.
The singer’s family did not reveal his cause of death when they announced his passing, though Osbourne had been open in the years before about treatment for Parkinson’s and spinal damage — and subsequent surgeries — he’d undergone on his spine and neck. Unable to stand or walk, Osbourne performed what as billed as his, and his former band Black Sabbath’s, final show on July 5 in their hometown of Birmingham, England.
The all-star Back to the Beginning concert, which reportedly raised more than $190 million for charities, included Osbourne playing five songs from his solo career and four more with his original Sabbath bandmates while seated on a black throne. In the lead-up to the all-day show, Osbourne repeatedly stressed that while he could not walk, he was determined to “do the best I can” at the concert at Villa Park stadium.
Fans flocked to the streets of Birmingham on July 30 for a funeral procession for Osbourne, who was later laid to rest in a private family ceremony in the city.
