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George Michael died almost nine years ago. On December 25, 2016, he was found lifeless in his house in London. For a long time, his body was not released by the authorities for burial because the cause of death was unclear. Now a book that has just been published reports on a life -threatening pneumonia in Vienna, which had occurred in Vienna years earlier. The coffin for George Michael was already ready.
The incident occurred in November 2011. George Michael was to play in the town hall in Vienna when the sold -out concert was canceled at short notice. Reason: a violent respiratory disease. After the immediate delivery to the Central General Hospital (AKH), the doctors found a threatening state that should last for several weeks.
Author and burial expert Florian Keusch knows that serious preparations for a death by George Michael in Vienna have already been made. There was even a cover name for the hidden action: “Last Christmas”.
“Best place in the world that I could go on”
The situation was explosive for those responsible, since British paparazzi besieged the clinic. In the cynical hope of a photo of Michael’s end, which was worth the sum in the tabloid scene. “Connection. From. Gone? Stories that death wrote” describes the dramatic struggle for Michael’s life in book form – and also the possible plan B, in which the coffin would have been removed from Austria as discrete.
Ultimately, patient M. survived the dramatic days in Vienna. In September 2012, George Michael was able to make up for his “Symphonica” tour. He thanked the AKH staff with 1,000 free tickets. At the time, he named his Viennese infirmary as the “best place in the world that I could end”.