Medical Definition of suppression. : an act or instance of suppressing: asa: stoppage of a bodily function or a symptom suppression of urine secretion suppression of a coughb: the failure of development of a bodily part or organc: the conscious intentional exclusion from consciousness of a thought or feelingâcompare repression 2a.
He was 53 years old. Jim Henson died from septic shock, aka sepsis, aka toxic shock syndrome. There are so many names for sepsis it can be confusing, but all these names mean the same thing; it is the bodyâs overreaction to an infection, in Jim Hensonâs case it was Group A streptococcus.
With his wife Lucy, Henson was honored at the White House by President Eisenhower. Henson died in 1955, the same year as Peary's wife Josephine. Just a short distance from Robert and Josephine, Matthew Henson is buried with Lucy in Arlington National Cemetery.