Heath Ledger Committed Suicide…Even if He Didn’t
I was resisting the urge to write about this nonsense but the media’s insistence on denying the obvious is, well, annoying me. For whatever reason, the media continues to romanticize yet another so-called movie star who is so angst filled that they can’t cope with their own success, yeah, RIGHT! Give me a break. I make sure to tell my kids on an ongoing basis that no amount of fame or fortune is worth putting their life at risk and living dangerously. Behavior, good and bad, has consequences. When the BAD consequences are romanticized, then it is difficult for children and young adults to understand that careless, fatal mistakes are, well, fatal.
It is certainly a tragedy that a young adult with so much talent and promise, and a daughter, is dead at the age of 28 years. What I can’t get over is all of the attention being paid to this tragedy, from the perspective of idolizing a man who had everything to live for and still chose to exhibit reckless, self-destructive behavior, which appearantly killed him. Of course, there is the ever present sugar coating of the drugs all being “prescription” versus crack or meth. But in the end, it appears to me that Heath is as dead as a doornail and no different than a any other crack head or heroin addict who takes one too many trips on the escape road to nowhere.
Just as with Brittany, Amy Whinehouse and others, the media is doing all of us a disservice by giving so much positive attention to life threatening, illegal and disgusting behavior. Rich drug addicts don’t have more fun, they just have fancier funerals. The Grammy nominations forAmy Whinehouse should be retracted, period. How can we overlook her drug addicted behavior and praise her artistry; there simply can be no separation of the two.
Just do us all a favor, Amy. Either get your act together or bring this to a swift end. Even Anna Nicole has faded into obscurity and you, Amy, are nowhere near as appealing to the masses as she was. In the end, we common folks, frankly, don’t give a damn!
