I loved The Doors but never understood romanticizing Jim Morrison. He died a horrible death at the age of 27.
by Kathleen Perricone
Forty years ago today, Jim Morrison died at the age of 27 — and broke on through to the other side.
The Doors singer’s body was discovered by his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, in a bathtub in his Paris apartment on July, 3 1971.
Persuant to French law, no autopsy was performed on Morrison because foul play was not suspected — and that only added to the mystery surrounding his death.
After returning to the U.S., Courson told Danny Sugerman, the manager of The Doors, that Morrison had died of a heroin overdose after ingesting what he thought was cocaine. Later, Sugerman says Courson, a heroin addict herself, changed her story a number of times, and even admitted she had killed Morrison.
Twenty years after Morrison’s death, friends Alain Ronay and Agnes Varda broke their silence and gave their account of what happened that day.
The two admitted that when they arrived at Morrison’s apartment, Courson told them that they had both taken heroin after a night of drinking, and Morrison began coughing so badly, he was vomiting blood. When he seemed better, she went to sleep. But when she awoke a short time later, she found him in the bath unresponsive and called for help.
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