Death
On Saturday, September 25, 2010, Giraldo accidentally overdosed on prescription medication. Earlier that afternoon, he had been scheduled to appear at a concert at the 3rd Annual New York Recovery Rally, which was being held in New York City "to celebrate the reality of recovery from addiction and offer hope to those who have yet to find recovery." The concert was held between noon and 3 p.m., but Giraldo never showed up. After he failed to appear for a scheduled performance at the Stress Factory that evening, police officers found him in his hotel room at the Hyatt Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and rushed him to nearby Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. TMZ reported that he had been in a coma for five days when his family had life support removed. He died on September 29, 2010.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.—”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one’s own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.”
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