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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
I'm not sure who made those claims.
Re-reading the article at a brief glance it seems a drug overdose seems to have been the cause of death.
Mental illness may certainly have been a factor in her life.
I don't know for sure.
If you are referring to my posts, then it may appear that, when i am referring to choices, i am referring in actual fact to the choices one makes when drugs or alcohol are involved.
Mental illness is not to be taken lightly and i agree that it is often pushed to the side and drug abuse or alcohol abuse seems to take precedence.
Either way, her troubles are nothing new in the world. Her decline is nothing new. Her apparent lack of support is nothing new.
What is always mis-interpreted though is the actual facts of a case like this.
We only know what the media tells us, unless we are on the inside, and have first-hand knowledge of her circumstances.
However, one must remember that even though the media tells us that "she had rejected all help" does not mean that the offer of support was adequate, or even sufficient. What i mean by that is that one can offer support to a person and that person declines and we nod our heads and go "ah well, she doesn't need our help, we will let her be", or one can attempt different ways to increase or offer a support base, which is both appropriate and in a way that exhausts every possible avenue of rehab.
Once again, we are shy of the facts.
But to ridicule and to degrade someone's character, in light of the outcome, which is the death of a young woman, then that is not appropriate. Regardless of what those media hounds report.
It is easy to lose sight of the picture. It is easy to judge, it is easy to jump to conclusions. It seems to not be easy to show some sort of compassion to a fellow human being.
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It's my experience that drug and alcohol use/addiction (I say use and addiction separately for a reason) are just one symptom of something more serious; if you will, they are a crutch used to support the weight of a greater, underlying problem. What starts in all innocence, rapidly takes on a life of its own.
As far as helping those people who suffer psychological problems... well, quite simply, some people don't want to be helped. Not even with all the money and time and compassion in the world. That's part of what makes them mad.
Pity though, seeing her when she was first on 'later with jools holland' and watching what she became more recently. Not a pretty sight - and one reason why I tuned her career commentary out, because what has happened is of no real surprise.
However, generally it does no good speaking ill of the dead, whoever they may have been in life.