Yep, I have managed to add 7 to my ignore list in this thread alone.
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Yep, I have managed to add 7 to my ignore list in this thread alone.
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BBC are reporting that the post mortem examination has proved inconclusive pending the results of a toxicology test.
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Oh crap I forgot Thatcher died.
Brightened up my day a little. Thanks.
Made me chuckle.
Yes because that's broadcast on tv isn't it...
Love the way that every time I come back to you with an answer you can only respond with childish sarcasm.
Yes.
The BBC have an entire news segment devoted to technology. It's called 'Click'.
Click is more gadgets?
I feel for the kids, losing a parent that young is going to be difficult.
But the whole 'respect' thing - to me is meaningless.
Unless I'm talking specifically to the family members in which tact comes into play I fail to see the connection. Simply writing RIP & saying nice things in a thread doesn't constitute empathy - it costs nothing & is just another fleeting platitude.
That said there is no reason to go to the other extreme either - writing seething & emotionally charged negative language about the death of a young women is irrational & unneeded. Even if the cause of death is suicide, drug abuse or anything people like to attribute as 'self-caused' it doesn't make the situation any less tragic (for those involved).
Regarding the death of celebrities in the media, it's no different to celebrity marriages, affairs or divorces being the in the media (yet you don't hear people complaining about those other aspects are reports - just oddly deaths). As much as I dislike the whole celebrity culture, a reasonable portion of the population seem to care quite greatly.
But the whole 'respect' thing - to me is meaningless.
Unless I'm talking specifically to the family members in which tact comes into play I fail to see the connection. Simply writing RIP & saying nice things in a thread doesn't constitute empathy - it costs nothing & is just another fleeting platitude.
That said there is no reason to go to the other extreme either - writing seething & emotionally charged negative language about the death of a young women is irrational & unneeded. Even if the cause of death is suicide, drug abuse or anything people like to attribute as 'self-caused' it doesn't make the situation any less tragic (for those involved).
Regarding the death of celebrities in the media, it's no different to celebrity marriages, affairs or divorces being the in the media (yet you don't hear people complaining about those other aspects are reports - just oddly deaths). As much as I dislike the whole celebrity culture, a reasonable portion of the population seem to care quite greatly.
Gadgets and tech. They tend to be closely intertwined anyway.
Heroin overdose while she was supposed to be caring for an 11 month old child.
Great parenting, there.
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Was the child with her at the time?
If so, then good riddance.
If so, then good riddance.
Your a fountain of wisdom and empathy and understanding.
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No drug paraphernalia found though, seems a bit strange considering the circumstances.
That struck me too, although it's possible to take heroin without any paraphenalia (it's modified morphine - it'll work in tablet form, for example) and disturbingly easy to overdose on it (illegal heroin can vary a great deal in actual heroin content, so a user doesn't really know how much they're taking).
No doubt the conspiracy talk is already underway. It's possible to murder someone that way (e.g. pill substitution - they think it's paracetamol but it's actually heroin) and it's convoluted enough to appeal to conspiracy believers.
And to all the people who mourned her and went RIP at her so called "celebrity" death, at the end of the day she was just a drug addict. She'd rather stick needles in her arm than look after her kids, one less piece of scum in the world is fine by me.
Will now await the Daily Mail readers saying drug addicts are victims from deprived backgrounds blah blah ....
Will now await the Daily Mail readers saying drug addicts are victims from deprived backgrounds blah blah ....
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Not cool.
It's pretty common knowledge she had a history of heroin use and it's also common knowledge that heroin is a notoriously hard drug to stay clean from.
There's a reason that every few months we get one of these stories of celebrities overdosing on heroin. These are all people that have histories of use, have gotten clean, but feel that little pull of temptation each day.
All it takes is just the one time where they're feeling particularly low, so they decide to have that little bit of smack they've kept hidden away. They go through the old routine but don't take account for the fact that because they haven't used in such a long period of time they don't have the tolerance that they used to have when they used the drug habitually. As a result that little bit which wouldn't even have touched the sides when they were at the peak of their habit is a lethal dose.
We can all romanticize that because she was a mother that she was somehow immune to the temptation of this, but that's not reality.
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