What Happened to Janis Joplin: How did she die?

Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was a singer and songwriter from the United States. She was one of her era’s most popular and well-known rock artists, with powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and a “electric” stage presence.

In 1967, Joplin rose to notoriety after performing as the lead vocalist of the then-unknown San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Monterey Pop Festival.

How did Janis Joplin die?

According to the book, Noguchi has studied several fatal drug overdoses in Los Angeles when friends thought they were performing a favor for the decedents by removing the evidence of narcotics, then they “thought things over” and returned to put the evidence back. Noguchi performed an autopsy on Janis Joplin and discovered that she died from a heroin overdose, likely exacerbated by alcohol.

According to John Byrne Cooke, Joplin was given heroin that was far more strong than what she and other L.A. heroin addicts had received previously, as evidenced by overdoses of several of her dealer’s other customers on the same weekend. Her death was ruled to be an accident.

According to the book, previous to Joplin’s death, Noguchi researched several fatal drug overdoses in Los Angeles when friends thought they were performing a favour for the decedents by removing evidence of narcotics, then they “thought things over” and returned to put the evidence back.[106] Noguchi performed an autopsy on Joplin and decided that the cause of death was a heroin overdose, possibly exacerbated by alcohol.

According to John Byrne Cooke, Joplin was given heroin that was far stronger than what she and other L.A. heroin addicts had previously received, as evidenced by overdoses of several of her dealer’s other customers on the same weekend. Her death was declared an accident.

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