Jim Morrison's Cause of Death

Answer 1

Morrison flew to Paris in March 1971, took up residence in a rented apartment, and went for long walks through the city,[40]  admiring the city's architecture. During that time, Morrison shaved his beard and lost some of the weight he had gained in the previous months.[41]  In Paris, Morrison had two poetry sessions one which was professional and recorded various poems, many of which were used for the American Prayer album. The last studio recording was with two American street musicians  — a session dismissed by Manzarek as "drunken gibberish".[42]  The session included a version of a song-in-progress, "Orange County Suite", which can be heard on the bootleg The Lost Paris Tapes.

Morrison died on July 3, 1971. In the official account of his death, he was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by Courson. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy has left many questions regarding Morrison's cause of death.

In Wonderland Avenue, Danny Sugerman discussed his encounter with Courson after she returned to the U.S. According to Sugerman's account, Courson stated that Morrison had died of a heroin overdose, having insufflated what Morrison believed to be cocaine. Sugerman added that Courson had given numerous contradictory versions of Morrison's death, at times saying that she had killed Morrison, or that his death was her fault. Courson's story of Morrison's unintentional ingestion of heroin, followed by accidental overdose, is supported by the confession of Alain Ronay, who has written that Morrison died of a hemorrhage after snorting Courson's heroin, and that Courson nodded off, leaving Morrison bleeding to death instead of phoning for medical help.[43]