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Report: Amy Winehouse found dead at home

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http://www.thestar.com/article/1029552--reports-amy-winehouse-found-dead-at-her-home?bn=1

Not completely unexpected but sad to say the least
 
Some of her handlers need to take some of the blame.  She tried going back on tour and had no business being anywhere outside of rehab.
 
Possibly the least surprising celebrity death in history. She was a great talent, but, she just had no handle of life, unfortunately.
 
L K said:
Some of her handlers need to take some of the blame.  She tried going back on tour and had no business being anywhere outside of rehab.
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While there's definitely some truth to that, the thing with rehab is that it's pretty much useless if the person doesn't want to get clean, and Amy Winehouse has never really given any indication that she wants to give up the drugs. She definitely shouldn't have been on tour, but, forcing her into rehab probably would have been detrimental to the people who were actually there to get clean. Unfortunately, she was on a collision course with death, and she didn't appear to want to change direction.
 
It's a shame. She was a legitimately great singer and I always thought that if she could clean herself up there would be a lot to look forward to from her artistically. Drug addiction is a terrible thing and even good people can lose their battles with it. I don't know if assigning blame is terribly productive though.

If nothing else, fingers crossed that this may wake Pete Doherty up.
 
As was mentioned above, if someone isn't ready to get sober, rehab won't do a thing for them. There's people that go to rehab with the best intentions and find a way to break out to do drugs. She obviously wasn't ready to get clean considering that she wrote a song about it.

The 27 thing IS weird. When I was a kid and found out that Joplin, Hendrix and Morrison all died at 27, I thought they were so old. Now that I'm 40, they seem like kids to me.

Ironically, in a way, I stopped doing drugs at 27 and haven't touched them since.

I think what kids that are experimenting with anything should be told is, that once you try anything at all that can change your mood, you'll never be the same again. They always said that once you did acid, you'd never be the same again. Well, you're never the same again after you drink coffee or smoke a cigarette either. You'll always crave them even after 20 years of never touching them. Never mind heavier drugs.

To put it in a weird way.................drugs never stop haunting the attic of your mind.

I haven't touched cocaine in 13 years but if I read a book where someone's doing it, I get that urge and it's annoying. It's a hell of a lot easier to just not try anything in the first place.

Anyway, she was a great talent gone too soon.

RIP Amy
 
I really believe in the motto 'Everything in moderation, including moderation' but it also works for me and I'm not everybody. I suppose a 'Pandora's Box' clause could fit in there, everything may not really be for everybody.
 
I agree with moderation with some things but you're still craving what you're moderating.

I think one of the best lyrics I've ever heard about addiction was by Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins when he said........"For every chemical, you trade a piece of your soul, with no return."

That's about as true as it gets.
 
Busta Reims said:
L K said:
Some of her handlers need to take some of the blame.  She tried going back on tour and had no business being anywhere outside of rehab.
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While there's definitely some truth to that, the thing with rehab is that it's pretty much useless if the person doesn't want to get clean, and Amy Winehouse has never really given any indication that she wants to give up the drugs. She definitely shouldn't have been on tour, but, forcing her into rehab probably would have been detrimental to the people who were actually there to get clean. Unfortunately, she was on a collision course with death, and she didn't appear to want to change direction.
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I didn't mean to imply that she should have been locked into rehab (although I kind of wish we had the resources available to be able to give more 1-on-1 treatment).  Just that someone should have stepped in and had her not go on that tour.  She made one drug-fueled attempt at a show and was ridiculed while on stage and then in the papers.  I don't think it made a huge amount of difference in the path her life took, but most of her coverage was more on the "look how stupid and pathetic she is, let's make fun of her" approach rather than addressing the real issue in that she needed help.  It really keeps the stigma of addiction/mental health pushed down.
 
Just heard about this. Pretty sad news. But as many have said, it probably wasn't much of a surprise.
 
When I read the news of her death I couldn't help but think of Bradley Nowel, founder and lead singer for Sublime who died at 28 from substance abuse. Bradley perdicted his own death with this song;

Lyin' in my plastic bed
thinkin' how things weren't so cool to me
my baby likes to shoot pool
I like lyin' naked in my bedroom
tying on the dinosaur tonight
it used to be so cool to...

But now i've got the needle
and i can shake but i can't breathe
i take it away
but i want more, and more
one day i'm gonna lose the war

Lyin' in my plastic bed
thinkin' how things weren't so cool to me
my baby like to shoot pool
like lyin' naked in my bedroom
tying on the dinosaur tonight
it used to be so cool

now i got the needle
and i can shake but i can't breath
i take it away
but i want more, and more
one day i'm gonna lose the war

One day i'm gonna lose the war, that phrase still raises the hairs on the back of my neck.
RIP Amy.




 
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