Joan stressed that this is in keeping with Jewish traditions

Oct 20, 2014 11:11 GMT  ·  By

You might remember that last week the news emerged that Joan Rivers passed away during her botched operation because her brain was starved of oxygen and this caused her to go into a coma and eventually die in hospital while she was on life support.

Naturally, everyone was expecting for the official results of the autopsy to be made public, but the report we had was from a medical examiner who had conducted an investigation into the matter, it never came from the coroner.

Melissa refused to let doctors perform an autopsy on her mother, which means we will never know what actually killed Joan Rivers

Today, it's being announced that Joan Rivers' real cause of death might never be revealed after her daughter Melissa has decided that there isn't going to be any autopsy performed on the body of her dead mother, which is in keeping with Jewish traditions.

TMZ reports that the NY Medical Examiner has announced Melissa refused the autopsy and doctors were forced to accept her wishes, which is in accordance with New York laws that state such an examination is not compulsory if there is no evidence to indicate criminal activity led to the person's demise.

This is clearly in keeping with the Jewish faith traditions, but it poses a problem because doctors will not be able to clearly determine what actually killed Joan and all we will have are speculations. However, it is now strongly believed that something doctors did during her endoscopy procedure, some complication that could have been foreseen, led to Joan's death.

The medical examiner reported Joan's death came because her brain lost oxygen supply

The NYC examiner's office said in a statement that “The cause of Ms. Rivers’ death is anoxic encephalopathy due to hypoxic arrest during laryngoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with propofol sedation for evaluation of voice changes and gastroesophageal reflux disease. The manner of death is therapeutic complication. The classification of a death as a therapeutic complication means that the death resulted from a predictable complication of medical therapy.”

The fact that Melissa doesn't want to pursue the case undermines the theories according to which she was planning a huge lawsuit against the endoscopy clinic in Manhattan and was seeking retribution for her mother's death.

Several major news outlets confirmed insider reports that Melissa was gearing up her lawyers and carefully preparing the case. Without a definitive report from the coroner, a conviction is now going to be very difficult to make, but it seems that Melissa is more interested in preserving her religious traditions than seeking retribution for Joan's passing.