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Artiste:
Wonder, any of you, if those drugs were maybe forced upon Heath?
Yes, forced?
Hugs!
optom3:
--- Quote from: Kelda on February 29, 2008, 01:20:22 pm ---wow marge, that was a good article
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Double wow!!!! That is the most cohesive and inciteful piece of journalism I have read,re the whole tragedy.It was neither sensational or overtly emotional.By being neither it managed to be one of the saddest pieces I have read.
It really just said,he was a good guy,an extemely talented actor.who was much like most of us.neither sinner or saint.
Except like most of us(well me anyway) he had an enormous talent,and with that came pressures which most of us cannot imagine.I struggle enough with day to day life,let alone life through a lens.
I guess he just wanted to be "normal" which was never going to be following the massive impact of BBM.You can't blame the guy for trying though.
Thanks again for posting the link to the article.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: optom3 on February 29, 2008, 08:01:44 pm ---Double wow!!!! That is the most cohesive and inciteful piece of journalism I have read,re the whole tragedy.It was neither sensational or overtly emotional.By being neither it managed to be one of the saddest pieces I have read.
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What you said.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: optom3 on February 29, 2008, 08:01:44 pm ---Double wow!!!! That is the most cohesive and inciteful piece of journalism I have read,re the whole tragedy.It was neither sensational or overtly emotional.By being neither it managed to be one of the saddest pieces I have read.
It really just said,he was a good guy,an extemely talented actor.who was much like most of us.neither sinner or saint.
Except like most of us(well me anyway) he had an enormous talent,and with that came pressures which most of us cannot imagine.I struggle enough with day to day life,let alone life through a lens.
I guess he just wanted to be "normal" which was never going to be following the massive impact of BBM.You can't blame the guy for trying though.
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(The above quote referred to the New York Magazine article this week.)
What I thought was the best insight, though a very bitter one, was the author's remark that if Heath had started "acting like an a**hole", showing up for a day's work at a movie shoot obviously under the influence, etc. he might still be alive because people who knew him well might have figured that something was wrong and done some kind of intervention.
Of course, we'll never know that for sure but when I read that, I just had a gut feeling that the author had touched on one of the most important aspects of this tragedy. And it's true -- it's the people who, through insecurity, strength of character, or some of both, who struggle along in "quiet desperation" without showing any outward signs who so often fall through the cracks.
That article also made it crystal-clear, without ranting much about it, how inane the sensationalism was.
optom3:
--- Quote from: Artiste on February 29, 2008, 07:52:39 pm ---Wonder, any of you, if those drugs were maybe forced upon Heath?
Yes, forced?
Hugs!
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Guess we will never know.
What I do know is that it is very easy to take ,accidentally too many Rx. meds.As I am having a rough time at the moment,I am on several meds.All prescribed by same phsician,sleeping tabs,anti depressants,pain killers.
Since the death of Heath I have started keeing a note of what I took and when.
It is so easy when you cant sleep,are depressed,manic and in pain,just to think oh,Ill just take a couple more.Anything to get rid of the pain,mental and physical,get some sleep.So I am much more careful than I used to be.
It at least acted as a bit of a wake up call to me.to be less cavalier about my meds.Now when it gets real bad I offload here at Better Most !!!!!!!!!
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