Overview
- Sharon says Ozzy woke her around 4:30 a.m., asked for a kiss and a tight hug, then went to exercise before suffering a heart attack.
- She recounts finding medics performing CPR, knowing he had died, and says he was airlifted to hospital where resuscitation attempts failed.
- She says a lead doctor warned that performing the Villa Park farewell could be fatal, yet Ozzy chose to appear and was jubilant afterward.
- In the final week, Ozzy described recurring dreams of unfamiliar people, which Sharon took as a sign he felt ready to die.
- Official records list cardiac arrest and acute myocardial infarction with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease, and the family held a private funeral after large public tributes in Birmingham.