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To quote a friend's FB status;

 

"The power of celebrity means you can openly court death through your own pitiful self abuse for years and still get more sympathy than 80 innocent teenagers."

 

My sentiments exactly.

very true. And 32 people on a Chinese bullet train

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No sympathy from me either, if you do hard drugs or any drugs you have expect the consequences, it’s quite obvious she has OD'd on something or had a heart attack for everything she did before...

 

Yes it’s sad when anyone dies, but now the internet is plastered with comments of "such wasted talent" and "It’s such a shame" what about the things that have happened In the last week? Bombs are being detonated in capital cities, a fundamentalist gunman kills over 80 people at a children's camp and people are in court accused of stealing information from dead children with the intention of making money, it's strange to me that people care about a junkie that’s probably had an overdose.

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I think it is okay to express sadness for all of the sad things that have happened in the last few days.

 

We shouldn't try to confuse ourselves by thinking that is it the same kind of sadness or that they are the same kinds of deaths, because clearly, unarguably, they are enormously different. But there can always be a place for the thoughts of someone who has died, whatever the circumstances are - for me anyway.

 

I remember seeing the footage of her in Belgrade and she was such a state, it seemed sick that people were making money from her whilst she was clearly so so broken and so in need of help. How on earth they let her go on is just beyond me.

 

But then at the same time, I recognise that people in the grips of addiction can be offered all the help in the world, but if they don't want it, then there's very little to stop them self-destructing.

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I think it is okay to express sadness for all of the sad things that have happened in the last few days.

 

We shouldn't try to confuse ourselves by thinking that is it the same kind of sadness or that they are the same kinds of deaths, because clearly, unarguably, they are enormously different. But there can always be a place for the thoughts of someone who has died, whatever the circumstances are - for me anyway.

 

I remember seeing the footage of her in Belgrade and she was such a state, it seemed sick that people were making money from her whilst she was clearly so so broken and so in need of help. How on earth they let her go on is just beyond me.

 

But then at the same time, I recognise that people in the grips of addiction can be offered all the help in the world, but if they don't want it, then there's very little to stop them self-destructing.

 

All things said she was a terrible role model for todays kids. Maybe it will now make people think from now on - although i am probably being optimistic about that.

IMO she was a talentless singer that should never have been allowed in the public eye after her first lot of arrests for drug offences and assult.

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All things said she was a terrible role model for todays kids. Maybe it will now make people think from now on - although i am probably being optimistic about that.

IMO she was a talentless singer that should never have been allowed in the public eye after her first lot of arrests for drug offences and assult.

 

I don't understand this role model argument. Kids of yesteryear had terrible role models too. The likes of Jimi Hendrix and James Morrison (both 27 when they died and both in drugs related circumstances) were exactly the same.

 

Perhaps the way the media portraits people these days is part of the problem but there are always going to be 'rockstars' and they will always be living in the fast line.

 

Personally when I was young and impressionable the only people influencing me were my peers or people at my school smoking in the toilets. Certainly not people I saw on the tele.

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To quote a friend's FB status;

 

"The power of celebrity means you can openly court death through your own pitiful self abuse for years and still get more sympathy than 80 innocent teenagers."

 

My sentiments exactly.

 

very true. And 32 people on a Chinese bullet train

 

Well said

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To quote a friend's FB status;

 

"The power of celebrity means you can openly court death through your own pitiful self abuse for years and still get more sympathy than 80 innocent teenagers."

 

My sentiments exactly.

 

Wow, really well put that.

 

I have put that up on my Facebook too, people generally spend too much time thinking about "celebrities".

 

Once upon a time that meant something, now it is anybody on the TV or people who are famous because their great great great granddad was.

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