Death
Larson died unexpectly before his opening night on broadway. Larson died of an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, in the early morning on January 25, 1996. New York State medical investigators concluded that if the aortic dissection had been properly diagnosed and treated, Larson would have lived.
He had been suffering chest pains and also had nausea for several days prior to his death, but doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital could not find signs of a heart attack and so misdiagnosed it either as flu or stress.
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