Experts are arguing it would be extremely unlikely that Bob Saget could have thought he would sleep off an injury so severe.

Saget was found unresponsive by authorities on the January, 9th.

Initially, Dr. Joshua Stephany, the chief medical examiner suggested that “it is most probable that the decedent suffered an unwitnessed fall backwards and struck the posterior aspect of his head.”

Shortly afterwards, the family made a public statement. “Now that we have the final conclusions from the authorities’ investigation, we felt it only proper that the fans hear those conclusions directly from us,” said the family.“They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep. No drugs or alcohol were involved.”

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However, it is still perplexing experts how Saget was so badly injured and simply went to bed. 

More recently, Dr. Jeffrey Bazarian, an emergency physician and concussion expert at the University of Rochester Medical Centre argued that his injuries were so severe it would be like “an egg cracking… You hit it in one spot, and it can crack from the back to the front.”

“I doubt he was lucid,” Dr. Bazarian told The New York Times. “And doubt he thought, ‘I’m just going to sleep this off.’”

Bazarian suggests that the head trauma would have more likely made him extremely confused and potentially unaware of the extent of his injury. 

Dr. Gavin Britz, told The Times that the injury was “something [you would] find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 to 30 feet.”

No alcohol or illegal drugs were detected in Saget’s system. However, there were traces of medication used to prevent seizures and treat panic attacks, as well as antidepressants. 

The report also discovered that the actor was positive for COVID-19 at the time of his death, however none of this is being considered relevant. 

Saget was just at the beginning of his I Don’t Do Negative tour when he passed away. 

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