Sharjah24 – AFP: American actor Anne Heche was taken off life support on Sunday (August 14), nine days after suffering severe injuries in a fiery car crash, as a compatible person was found to receive her donated organs, a spokesperson said.
Heche, 53, had been legally dead since Friday (August 12), though still with a heartbeat, and was kept on life support to preserve her organs so they could be donated, her representatives said.
"Anne Heche has been peacefully taken off life support,"
spokesperson Holly Baird said in a statement.
Heche's Mini Cooper sped out of control, plowed into a house and burst into flames on Aug. 5, leading to an agonizing hospital stay with increasingly grave messages from her family and representatives.
On Friday, one of her two sons, 19-year-old Homer Laffoon, issued a statement saying: "My brother Atlas and I lost our Mom."
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