Variety’s story on the death of Anthony Minghella has the first details on cause of death, and sadly, it appears that it was unforeseen. The filmmaker apparently “suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.”
Spout interviewed Minghella when his last released film, Breaking and Entering, had its U.S. premiere at the 2006 Denver Film Festival. You can watch that interview above.
UPDATE: The Guardian says the “routine operation” was motivated by “cancer of the tonsils and neck.” The surgery took place last week and the prognosis looked good, until “he developed a haemorrhage last night and they were not able to stop it.”
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Last year in the UK 8,500 people experienced a brain haemorrhage.That equates to almost one person for every hour, of every day, for the whole year.
A brain haemorrhage which may be a subdural, extradural or a subarachnoid haemorrhage is a sudden leak of blood and is caused by the rupture of a weakened blood vessel known as a brain aneurism.
Approximately 80% of Brain Haemorrhages are caused by Aneurysms. They are present in at least 1% of the population, which means that approximately 600,000 people in the UK are at risk of suffering from a brain haemorrhage.
That equates to at least one in 100 people go about their daily routine completely unaware that they have potentially deadly flaws in the blood vessels in their brain.
That’s why its called “The silent killer”.
For more information go to brainhelp.co.uk