Same age as me....pretty scary. No idea when our time will come. We could live a clean life and die young, and you could live on drugs and booze like the Stones and live till 80 or 90.
Yet another death of a 1990s singer.
Most of the popular singers I grew up with are dead - Kurt Cobain, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, Shannon Hoon, George Michael, Whitney Houston, MJ, and now Dolores O'Riordan. All from drugs or suicide (or in this latest case, both).
Something is desperately wrong in society if this is how people in the limelight are dealing with it. Needlessly tragic.
What makes you say her death was drugs or suicide? They said they won't know how she died until April.....Also, these celebrities are Just like you and me and the people we grew up with. Everyday people are dying of drug overdoses, It's a epidemic at this point. It's called living in the real world with real problems. Fame has nothing to do with it. You could ask the families of all the working class people if fame has anything to do with their kids dying from drugs. I personally know about 10 people or more who overdosed or committed suicide. Were they Famous? Stop selling that whole B'S story that they couldn't handle fame, so many more problems than us simple folk, so they turned to drugs...... Unlike us working class they have the funds for the best treatment. Bottom line, It's easy falling into the drug/poison lifestyle famous or not.
I also would appreciate people not glorifying the party Drug lifestyle like It's cool. It's all fun and games until you try and quit. No glory watching Cobain play with his daughter when she was a baby while he was High. With his wife who was also High. Even his daughter mentioned that. Stop glorifying these people.
mike hunt wrote:
What makes you say her death was drugs or suicide?
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Many sources are saying it was fentanyl.
Of course you're right - we have to wait for the autopsy to come back. But that's what it's pointing to.
mike hunt wrote:
Everyday people are dying of drug overdoses, It's a epidemic at this point. It's called living in the real world with real problems. Fame has nothing to do with it.
Stop selling that whole B'S story that they couldn't handle fame, so many more problems than us simple folk, so they turned to drugs...... Unlike us working class they have the funds for the best treatment.
Obviously I don't mean to minimize what regular folks go through, but there is a higher percentage of drug abuse in celebrities than any other line of work - no debate. And it is not a BS story that people can't handle fame. Many of them can't. Have you ever lived your life under the microscope of the paparazzi and millions of people around the world? Not everyone can deal with it with grace like McCartney.
Indeed, many celebrities do have the money to deal with drug addictions, but plenty do not. Most people don't realize how so many of the 90s bands got absolutely screwed by their record labels and didn't see a dime on their albums that sold millions. This stuff isn't widely publicized, but take it from someone who works in the industry - the stories aren't pretty. And The Cranberries could very well be one of those bands.
Furthermore, plenty of artists who sold millions of albums in the 70s aren't millionaires, either. The music business has made billions off of artists who didn't even see millions. It is one of the biggest myths that all famous people are rich - they aren't.
Not really saying you in particular, sorry if it came across like that. I just wish the newer generation would learn from the past. I have searched her death since my last post and does look like Opiate poisoning. Guess we'll know for sure soon. I have a gut feeling it Wasn't suicide. Maybe she had an addiction problem. She did mention in past Interviews that she probably won't see 50, her prediction came true. Probably why I got a bit defensive, same age as me and I say the same things. Sometimes you Just know.
I think that famous people use drugs equal as people who are not famous but the fact is that people who are not celebrities will not come to the front pages of newspapers.
Where I'm from people are put in body bags everyday from this poison....google opiate epidemic in Ny Staten Island. I do agree you get drugs easier when famous. It's all around them, but then again the dark web makes it easy for the average Joe too get any drug they want.
mike hunt wrote:
Not really saying you in particular, sorry if it came across like that. I just wish the newer generation would learn from the past. I have searched her death since my last post and does look like Opiate poisoning. Guess we'll know for sure soon. I have a gut feeling it Wasn't suicide. Maybe she had an addiction problem. She did mention in past Interviews that she probably won't see 50, her prediction came true. Probably why I got a bit defensive, same age as me and I say the same things. Sometimes you Just know.
^as a Canadian, wouldn't u be aware of those stated "facts" that virtually every form of illicit non cannabis street drug found in Canada was tainted or laced with fentanyl?
The hell with lower costs. That shit is deadly by the milligram. I don't know if this is some covert thing to kill drug users but death by fentanyl wouldn't sounds intentionally RECREATIONAL to me.
If it's being slipped into things then it's a VERY dangerous time for drug users.
In Canada i wouldn't imagine it was necessary to buy from dealers unprescribed amounts of things but here in the USA i have simple allergy problems. I can't buy enough sudafed due to federal regulations; to assist me through something like a tortuous month of sinus headaches etc.
It's restricted thanks to meth heads/dealers.
Am i wrong in thinking that fentanyl is not a recreational drug? Shouldn't all these deaths associated with it be considered possible manslaughter?
FFS they have to practice massive Biohazard regulations on its disposal and retrieval from crime scenes and labs because it could kill you even by skin contact
^ all that above said, news of that made me feel a bit more despairing.
Never said that I'd wanted to see her live and never knew they might even play anymore but their music (*mainly that one album) is (overused term) part of the soundtrack of my life.
Selfishly. They made some beautiful cuts. That music resonates and takes me to a different time never mind whatever the song may be about (*as of later discovered) they performed some beautiful NEW (sound design/arrangement) music that will last forever. Even if just those 3 cuts