[Ammi]

…I think for me with Liam Payne’s death is that it was a ‘sudden and violent’ death, which is always a huge shock factor, obviously….its more layered than his body failing with substance abuse and so it’s led for that added thing of ‘culpability and accountability’ to be looked at because he obviously wasn’t in a position/place of safety and had anyone caring for him ….but it wasn’t a place of medical care either, so it’s not something that the hotel staff could have foreseen with it all leading to what it did and they have a duty of care to their staff as well in keeping them safe if he was acting aggressively or dangerously etc…it just doesn’t feel very clear to determine these things for me because we just don’t know what led up to it all in terms of behaviour etc and so much to consider…it’s all very sad and tragic…

…substance abuse, though…obviously played a factor in awareness that can’t be dismissed either and those life/destructive choices that he made himself…Many of us have personal knowledge of substance addiction and it’s not that empathy isn’t there, I think it’s more that sadly that person becomes the addiction and it can then be no longer the person who you’re communicating either or trying to reach…it’s the addiction that you’re dealing with because the person has already been taken from you by that addiction….it really isn’t a black and white thing and the layers with Liam’s death have added complications also…