RIP Amy Winehouse

The reason you're pushing the Norway tragedy into this conversation is that you can politicize that.

You cannot politicize Amy Winehouse. Thus, it's kind of hard for you to carry that.

 

I find it kind of weird that on the same board where people make "hammer time" jokes of a brutal murder that others feel a self-destructive person's life and death is untouchable.

 

You just now realized the hypocrisy here runs deeper than the Pacific?

 

Frankly, I wonder why I read any of your posts the first time. Not really interested in subjecting myself to a second reading.

 

Before the lock, I'd like to express my thoughts here as well.

This is not a tragic death. This is the death of a superstar who couldn't get control of her demons. A tragic death is a death that couldn't have been prevented and/or occurred to someone in a tragic sense (I.E. Anytime a child dies/any unexpected or untimely death).

That being said, this is still a death and it is sad.

Do I give a shit about Amy Winehouse the singer? Nope. Couldn't care less. But I feel sadness about her death the way I feel sadness over any person's death, especially since it could have been prevented here.

But I'm not going to cry and I'm not going to shed a tear for a woman who clearly brought this upon herself with her own behavior. I won't, however, judge anyone that does.

You may not resume your flaming wars.

 

Or, you know, A1 of the New York Times. Half a dozen of one, six of the other.

 

Apples and oranges. Gallows humor is one thing. I laughed when someone posted, "She died doing what she loved."

However, people aren't objecting to gallows humor her. They are objecting to serious discussion points regarding the level of the woman's culpability in her own death.

Quite different in kind than, again, dark humor.

 

I cringed when they mentioned all of the singers that died at 27. Amy Winehouse does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain...

I would guess that the average person knows one of her songs.

 

I think your point is valid. But I think the same could be said about Joplin and Cobain.

 

I think your average person knows more than one Nirvana song.

 

I think your average person would have trouble naming more than one Joplin song now, but I doubt that was the case when she died.

 

What message board?