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This is really how Puchi (Nilda Roman Perez) died...very tragic


We were just wondering what kind of accident Puchi died from. Its never really explained in the movie.

Marc Anthony: Right. Hector's grandson lived with Puchi. And he was telling me that she got locked in her apartment. She lived in a first story apartment. She got locked into a room and decided to go out a window and go around to the front. As she was stepping out the window, he says, "I saw her. I was outside, and I saw her fall from the window. And it just disconnected her head from her spine. She died instantly. She wasn't breathing. And she was dead." I was like, what a life for this kid. His dad, his grandfather, and then his grandmother. He's a really bright kid, too. But that's how Puchi died. Crawling out of her window.



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That is awful. So sad.

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I don't think that the original poster implied that she was decapitated. She probably separated the skull from the spine enough to stretch or sever the spinal cord. This would have killed her instantly because she would stop breathing.

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It's called atlanto-occipital dislocation, otherwise known as internal decapitation. Due to accident/trauma the spinal cord is severed in the cervical section at the base of the skull.


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