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Heath Ledger - the grieving thread

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Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: Mikaela on January 25, 2008, 07:48:17 am ---Gary, you have written many deeply insightful and comforting posts over the last few days. They've been good to read. A sincere thank you.

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Have you all seen that the DC Board is taking out a half-page ad in Variety the upcoming Tuesday in memory and gratitude to Heath?

I'm so glad they're doing that.

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Can you post a link about it, Mika?

Mikaela:
Sure. it's here:

http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=28516.0

Sandy:

--- Quote from: garycottle on January 25, 2008, 06:13:17 am ---This may seem like a rather suptid thing to bring up given the situation.

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Not at all, I think she was a very clever woman.  I remember when a family friend (a Yorkshire man who was larger than life) died, his brother stood up at the funeral and read out every single nickname he had ever been called during his lifetime.  I recognised some, some were personal and some were a little rude.  He had asked around all of his late brother's friends and family for these names and simply read them all out.  And then sat down.  Everybody was in stitches, laughing.  It is what he would have wanted and everyone remembered how much fun he was.

Mikaela:
I must say I'm mightily saddened (no, to be honest, I'm angry!!) - at the behaviour of this woman who found Heath. In a situation where time is so incredibly of the essence and every second counts, she lost her head and spent too much precious time acting (in hindsight) rather irrationally. I don't know if it could have made any difference, probably not. But still it's so  tragic to think that those minutes were wasted.

Let's hope, if any of us land in a similar situation, we will not waste time but call 911 and start administering CPR.


--- Quote ---From Leslie, in the news thread:

From the Associated Press, by way of the New York Times:

January 25, 2008

NYPD: 4 Calls to Olsen Instead of 911

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:02 a.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- The massage therapist's first call on finding a lifeless Heath Ledger wasn't to 911. Nor was her second. Nor her third, police said.

A day before a Friday private viewing for the 28-year-old actor, police said the masseuse spent nine minutes repeatedly ringing ''Full House'' actress Mary-Kate Olsen before calling authorities for help.

The masseuse called Olsen a fourth time after paramedics arrived -- at the same time as Olsen's security guards.

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MaineWriter:
And, Mika, if she had been a trained and licensed massage therapist, which apparently she was not, she would have had to be certified in CPR and first aid. Presumably she would have had her wits about her a bit more and known what to do. Oh well...

From the accounts I read, he was probably dead at that point anyway, so speedier phone calls and more prompt resuscitation efforts would have likely not made a difference. I suppose that is some sort of comfort. Sigh.

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