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.
All that is known for certain was that Jim Jones died of a gunshot wound to the head, and that he was one of only two people to die in Jonestown of a gunshot. The position of the gun that killed Jones doesnât provide an answer as to his manner of death. He was found lying on the ground, with the gun several feet away.