To make that one sure, I commented on that part of her life that she made public all by herself and by which she disgraced herself. Public is public, and if somebody acts with so much lack of grace and honour, this does not all get deleted just because that person dies. Dying is no merit, nor an achievement. Her role was hyped and spiked in the media, and I reserve the right to question the wisdom of giving people such questionable biographies as idols, or presenting performances like hers as standards by which to define arts or artistic quality. Doing so does damage in the world of the still living - by adding deformation to said arts.
Today dozens and hundreds of people have died in Somalia again due to religious fanatism, drought, and starvation. That puts the meaning of a croaking Amy Whitehouse for the world of music into relation, I would say. But the headlines over her and the headlines over today's events in Somalia do not show that relation.
