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Heath Ledger - the grieving thread
LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: Wishes on January 24, 2008, 02:14:00 pm ---I hope so much the family will have peace while they are going through this. But I too fear the media is going to go where they have to for those pictures to be published in every magazine.
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Scum. If a magazine has pics of his family in Perth that were taken anywhere other than the news conference, I won't buy it.
Kelda:
Jeff - yes - Michelle's Mum and best friend (and Matilda's godparent) were already at Michelle's apartment before Michelle even left Sweden.
I came across these poems today - you may recognise them - I thought they were appropriate..
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!
- Mary Frye (1932)
Funeral Blues
W.H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut of the telephone
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone
Silence the pianos and with a muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves
He was my North, my South, my East and West
My workingweek and my Sundayrest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood
For nothing now can ever come to any good
And Eric.. I'm also lisetning to BBM Radio - thank you.
Kelda:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on January 24, 2008, 02:15:58 pm ---Scum. If a magazine has pics of his family that were taken anywhere other than the news conference, I won't buy it.
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well they took some of Michelle earlier :'( - I couldn't help myself I had to look... >:(
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/01/23/michelle-williams-en-route-nyc%20/#comment-2501129
loneleeb3:
--- Quote ---no matter what the truth is, it won't change my view of Heath. He gave us Ennis, and for that, I will be eternally grateful.
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You hit the nail on the head friend!
Very Nicely put!
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: Meryl on January 24, 2008, 01:18:50 pm ---I personally don't think Heath was suicidal, or that he was overdosing on illegal drugs, but I'm afraid it's already in the public consciousness that one or both of those things was the case.
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My husband repeated those things to me last night. I could have punched him. But I ranted about sensationalist media reports (and about the public hunger to feel morally superior to celebrities) instead.
If the problem is with a commonly prescribed medication, it's particularly important that the truth be known.
(*tries to suppress a rant about the FDA and the tendency for pharmaceutical researchers to report positive results, but to leave negative results unpublished...* Ummm, I know that I'm moving into the stage of grief that's all about anger, so I may be looking for a scapegoat.)
--- Quote from: garycottle on January 24, 2008, 02:34:16 pm ---no matter what the truth is, it won't change my view of Heath. He gave us Ennis, and for that, I will be eternally grateful.
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Amen.
Thanks to all of you who are posting song lyrics and artwork. They help.
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