This Montreal man died of an aneurysm after waiting in the ER for six hours

A 39-year-old Montreal man died of an aneurysm after spending six hours in an emergency room before giving up and going home.

A Montreal man died of an aneurysm after spending six hours in an emergency room before giving up and going home.

Adam Burgoyne, 39, posted on his X account on Dec. 5 that he had a “health scare” but “thankfully it wasn’t a heart attack” after getting an electrocardiogram (ECG) done. He said he had chest pain on his left side, nausea and clammy skin and a hard time breathing.

He added that once health-care workers made sure he “wasn’t dying,” he was “thrown out into the waiting room” where he waited six hours before going home without further medical assistance. It’s unclear which hospital Burgoyne went to.

His obituary said he died the next day.

Originally from Halifax, Burgoyne is remembered by his loved ones as someone who “loved to laugh and always made us giggle with throwback quotes sourced from an eclectic collection of 90’s cartoons, Monty Python movies, MadTV sketches, childhood memories, and downright ridiculous memes,” the obituary said. He had recently gotten engaged.

Joshua Slocum, a close friend of Burgoyne, said the death came as a total shock. Burgoyne was young, healthy and fit and had been sober for years following a struggle with addiction.

“You don't expect a 39 year old to keel over dead like that, right?” he said in an interview.