Visionary director died from cardiac arrest due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health says
Nearly a month after David Lynch died, the visionary director’s cause of death has been revealed.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health published Lynch’s death certificate Friday, stating that cardiac arrest due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as the primary cause of death. Dehydration was also a contributing factor, the Independent reports.
In the years leading up to his death at the age of 78, Lynch was battling emphysema, which he contracted after years of smoking cigarettes (he…