[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Stu

How can you simplify it so easily? It's not just a choice between musician and drug addict. Beneath both those lofty accolades lies a human being and that is who I am siding with.

I have no sympathy for heavy drug users. There are many people who are human beings that I have not one iota of sympathy for. Being a human beng does not make a person something special.

AW had the world as her oyster. Had the world at her feet. She had the means to do right by herself - not others - by herself, her own life - she chose not to.

I certainly don't side with someone who has some talent, has the resources to help with her 'addictions/demons' but choses to snort it, inject, smoke and drink her life away. Why didn't respect herself: why should sympathy be expected now that the inevitable has happened? If it was not overdose but suicide: neither do I respect that. And before you ask: yes - I have experience of both affecting my life, so I'm in a position to put forth an educated and experinced point of view on those matters.