Editing Florence Griffith Joyner (section)

==Personal life and death==
Griffith's nickname among her family was "Dee Dee".<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":3" /> She was briefly engaged to hurdler [[Greg Foster (hurdler)|Greg Foster]].<ref name=":6" /> In 1987, Griffith married [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Olympic]] triple-jump champion [[Al Joyner]], whom Griffith had first met at the 1980 Olympic Trials.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> Through her marriage to Joyner she was sister-in-law to track and field athlete [[Jackie Joyner-Kersee]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-14-ss-1984-story.html |title=Olympics '88: A Preview: The First Family: Joyner and Kersee Got a Jump in Their Personal Relationship |last=Harvey |first=Randy |date=September 14, 1988 |work=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |access-date=July 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820091031/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-14/news/ss-1984_1_long-jump/2 |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Griffith and Joyner had one daughter together, Mary Ruth Joyner, born November 15, 1990.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":17">{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-florence-griffith-joyner-19980923-story.html |title=From the Archives: Track Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner Dies at 38 |last=Penner |first=Mike |date=September 22, 1998 |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817061956/http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-florence-griffith-joyner-19980923-story.html |archive-date=August 17, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Death===
On September 21, 1998, Griffith Joyner died in her sleep at home in the Canyon Crest neighborhood of [[Mission Viejo, California]], at the age of 38. The unexpected death was investigated by the Orange County Sheriff-[[Coroner]]'s office, which on September 22 declared the cause of death to be suffocation during a severe [[Epilepsy|epileptic]] seizure.<ref name="uneasy">{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/1998/12/04/cov_04newsa/ |title=The Uneasy Death Of Florence Griffith Joyner |work=salon.com |first=Kristina Rebelo |last=Anderson |date=December 5, 1998 |access-date=June 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705004107/http://www.salon.com/1998/12/04/cov_04newsa/ |archive-date=July 5, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Griffith Joyner was found to have had a [[cavernous hemangioma]], a congenital vascular brain abnormality that made her subject to seizures.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/199306.stm |title=Seizure was brought on by a congenital defect in Griffith Joyner's brain |work=BBC |date=October 23, 1998 |access-date=January 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103171814/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/199306.stm |archive-date=January 3, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> According to a family attorney, she had a [[Generalised tonic-clonic seizure|tonic-clonic seizure]] in 1990 and had been treated for seizures in 1993 and 1994. According to the Sheriff-Coroner's office, the only drugs in her system when she died were small amounts of two common over-the-counter drugs, [[acetaminophen]] and the antihistamine [[Benadryl]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-23-sp-35391-story.html |title=Seizure Led to FloJo's Death |date=October 23, 1998 |author=Jeff Gottlieb |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=December 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114232820/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/oct/23/sports/sp-35391 |archive-date=January 14, 2017 |url-status=live |quote=The Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's office found that the only drugs in her system when she died were small amounts of the over-the-counter painkiller acetominophen and the antihistamine Benadryl, which is sometimes used as a mild sedative.}}</ref>