Amy Winehouse Found Dead

My best friend died from a drug overdose 3 years and 3 weeks ago to the day. I'm still pissed off at her every fucking day for getting herself into that situation. I love her more than life itself STILL, but that doesn't change my hurt and anger towards her, it doesn't change the fact that she made a fucking stupid decision, and it doesn't change the fact that she is gone. I have ZERO sympathy for anyone else who follows suit. It may have been an accident, it may have been someone else's influence helping it along, but she still was the one who decided to do drugs with a practical stranger and ended up not ever coming home. And by making that decision, she destroyed the lives of her friends and family. So no, I do not feel one bit of sadness towards Amy Winehouse, not at all. I feel immense amounts of sympathy, however, for her closest friends and family, because it is them who now have to suffer. It's a long hard road and I know what they're in for. It fucking sucks and it's not fair that anyone should have to deal with that. She's dead, she's gone, there's nothing left to be sorry for. Except for her loved ones. They're the only ones truly suffering now.

 

People who take drugs don't "go through" anything, at least, not the drugs she was taking.

It's true, if she was on opiates, she would have "gone through" something, because the stupid decision to get hooked does follow you, with chemical changes to your brain that can be almost impossible to overcome.

However, no. Choosing to drink and smoke crack, and then go clean for a while, and then do it again, is not "going through" something, it does not make you a victim. She went through exactly what she chose to go through, and kept choosing to go through, for years.

I didn't know her personally, but I've known lots of self destructive stupid people. I pity very few of them. Even if I like other aspects of their personality.

She seems to be easy to peg as one of those who glorifies and enjoys their own fuckups, I'm sure I've heard her songs but never intentionally, but with names like "rehab", from her, I feel pretty confident everything she did was wholly her fault, no matter how good or bad her music was she was a crackwhore, int he most literal sense.

 

people who become addicts pretty much have something physical or psychological going on that makes them become addicts. I'm very sympathetic towards people who become addicts, but that doesn't mean that they don't have also have to take some responsibility for where they ended up.

I suspect that Amy's death was not accidental overdose, but suicide by drugs.

I think a lot of the winehouse hate has a lot to do with the fact that most people don't know anything about her except maybe they heard the "rehab" song. I've never heard of anybody trash talk Hendrix for od'ing, or call Janis Joplin a junky whore.

 

I don't sympathize with Hendrix or Joplin either.

 

I think it has more to do with backlash over the exposure and against false sympathies or love through fame. She was a washed-up joke before she died; in death, she's become beloved again.

Kurt Cobain's was a controversial death.
Chris Farley and Bradley Nowell's were not.

 

She wasn't a washed up joke to those familiar with her music. A voice like that very rarely comes around.

 

I guess that depends how familiar.

She was booed off stage drunk in June.

She had 10 (mostly failed) comeback tours in a row.

 

Jerry Garcia?

 

stay on topic please

 

You know for a "Hip" forum, a lot of the posts I read on here are very hateful.

Whatever your thoughts, we shouldn't judge or hate.

 

i was thinkin' bout amy today.felt sad for her and her family an friends.the disease of addiction is just that,a disease.not a life choice! r.i.p amy x

 

Her management team never should have allowed her to remain on stage that long in June. It was obvious she was completely out of her gourd and they let her stand up ther for waay too long. I find that video of that show completely depressing and disgusting.

 

She was something truly amazing just a real talent and she left a hole in the world when she left us

 

It's in human nature to judge. I don't sugarcoat the things I say in hopes to spare people's feelings. All I can say in response to posts like this is at least I'm comfortable enough with myself and my opinions to express them without shame.

 

Roorshack:

Genius.

Keep on peggin'. And remember kids, everything we do could, 'pretty confidently' be wholly our fault.

 

Depends what you consider 'hip'.

Peace, flowers, free love; or free-thinking, revolutionary, damn-the-man.

The hippies definitely had two sides to them. The optimist and the cynic.

 

I'm a hippie!

Know why? I get pissed when people start comparing Janis Joplin to Amy Winehouse.

 

:rockon::hurray::hurray: Well said!!!!

 

Neg rep received from RooRshack:

It's alright RooR, take it easy there. You can say it out here in public too! :gossip: :elf: :gossip:


Lodog:

High blood pressure? Know your limits? Try fill irie aright.

 

Why do people feel this need to compare people to other people besides dying young how is amy like janis