Appreciation: Joan Rivers made us laugh and wince, blasting barriers all the while

One can only imagine what the final words would have been from the 81-year-old comic legend if she knew she were dying. Instead, Rivers, who made a groundbreaking career out of brazenly mocking subjects most of us were afraid to talk about, died hooked up to machines Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, in a medically-induced coma, one week after suffering a cardiac arrest while undergoing a routine medical procedure on her vocal chords.

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