Bill Paxton underwent surgery on February 14, 2017 to replace his aortic valve and repair an aortic aneurysm.

He died on February 25 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

In a previous announcement, his death was attributed to complications following surgery, but no further details were provided.

Although aortic valve replacement can save a person’s life, the procedure is not risky.

Check out this great photo of Bill and @AmandaSeyfried
that she recently posted. Time to watch Aliens again… and maybe follow it up with First Reformed… pic.twitter.com/80RT73ypFG

— Bill Paxton (@billpaxtonbaby) August 30, 2021

Strokes are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association.

Bill Paxton’s death could have been avoided, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family against the hospital and surgeon who treated him.

According to the lawsuit, Paxton’s family claims that the surgeon used a high-risk, unusual surgical method with which he was unfamiliar. The hospital and surgeon misrepresented information about the risks of the operation.

In an early 2017 interview with Marc Maron on WTF, Bill Paxton revealed that he had a defective aortic heart valve as a result of rheumatic fever when he was 13 years old.

On February 14, he underwent open-heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to replace the damaged valve and repair an aortic aneurysm.

The next day, he underwent an emergency second surgery to repair a damaged coronary artery.

His condition deteriorated over the next ten days, and he died on February 25 at the age of 61 from a fatal stroke. He was cremated and interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.

Bill is back via pinball, courtesy of Ben Heckhttps://t.co/3asWyPSdD6 pic.twitter.com/9T36tKeKPA

— Bill Paxton (@billpaxtonbaby) April 29, 2021

One year after Bill’s death, his family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ali Khoynezhad, the surgeon who performed his operation.

They claimed Khoynezhad used high-risk and unusual methods and was not present in the operating room.

Paxton developed complications such as ventricular dysfunction, tachycardia, and a compromised right coronary artery, which they claim contributed to the coronary artery damage that necessitated a second surgery.

Bill’s mother was a devout Roman Catholic who instilled in him and his siblings her faith.

His father was a businessman, a timber distributor, a museum executive, and an occasional actor, most notably as Bernard Houseman in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film and Paxton in A Simple Plan.

Paxton was descended from Austrian, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestors.

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— Dan Tournay (@tornado188) January 30, 2021

His great-great-grandfather was Elisha Franklin Paxton (1828–1863), a Confederate Army brigadier general who was killed commanding the Stonewall Brigade at Chancellorsville.

Paxton married Kelly Rowan in 1979, but the couple divorced a year later.

Later, on the Number 13 bus in London, he met Louise Newbury, a student, and the two married in 1987.

While living in Ojai, California, they had two children: son James (born 1994), an actor, and daughter Lydia (born 1997).