Wow...Heath Ledger is dead (Read 895 times)

Perfect example of how drug use can screw up a great life. I hope the tween population takes a hint.

i think i understand where you're coming from, but it's probably not that simple. i don't think anyone says, i am going to take drugs and fall into a pit of hell. i know someone close who was on drugs for years and no one knew. the ride just got too tiresome after awhile and, thankfully, they got off before things got too bad. but, we don't know -- IF IF IF IF IF -- Heath intended to commit suicide, WHY he may have. Hell. Maybe he never touched drugs before. Maybe it was an accidental overdose. Maybe, he truly felt he had no one to turn to. I don't think so much its about being famous and having all that much money, rather, i think, besides that, or when you take money/fame out of the equation, we're all pretty much the same. and what may seem a great life to those looking in from the outside may not be so to those living it. i just try never to judge. well, except "fashion" and hairstyles and a bunch of other shallow things. but i am an idiot. and human.

I don't feel sad. Didn't know him or his family. Did anyone here know him? Have you really spent time grieving out about this? I guess I don't understand all this weird outpouring when no one knew the guy. Which according to my famous friend, that is what drives famous people over the brink. The illusion that people think they know you, but they don't. It's all make-believe. Anyone sending a card? If you're really sad, you have to at least send a card.

No I'm not grieving, but I do feel sad. I never knew him but I can empathise with his family and feel sad that there is a little girl who will never know her dad. Its not a weird outpouring, thats just empathy. Same as I would feel sad for any yound dad who died. The fact that they are 'familiar' to you just makes you feel a bit sadder.

I do feel sad that a young talented guy gets snuffed out too soon. it is a shame (as it is whenever and whereever this happens) I will not be sending a card however

No I'm not grieving, but I do feel sad. I never knew him but I can empathise with his family and feel sad that there is a little girl who will never know her dad. Its not a weird outpouring, thats just empathy. Same as I would feel sad for any yound dad who died. The fact that they are 'familiar' to you just makes you feel a bit sadder.

I get that, but personally I only feel sad if it is someone I loved who has died. Someone in my life. Otherwise, I'd go around feeling sad all the time, because everyone is dying all the time, and the death of someone close would not have any more importance than an actor's I never met, or any name in the obits. Real grief is profound and undeniable and unstoppable--and absolutely tied to the level of love you allowed yourself to give to the other. For me, taking up precious time to feel sad about someone I don't know or love or have never met, would be just an act of imagination and a manufacturing of an emotion--not unlike what an actor does. There's no punch in the gut like you get when your Mom dies, or anyone you love.

I get that, but personally I only feel sad if it is someone I loved who has died. Someone in my life.

Seems a bit emotionally withdrawn and shallow to me, but hey...to each their own. There is a difference between grief over loss (when you know someone who dies or suffers a tragedy) and feeling sadness due to the fact that you are human and have a soul, and thus can feel empathy for the people left behind (who are truly grieving).

Just as there is such a thing as being an Empath, there is the exact opposite. It's one of those very cool things about the world how we are all so different.

There are commercials that make me cry. Movies can really get to me (I still get very misty towards the end of "The Sixth Sense," even though I know the "surprise"). The trailer for "The Spirit of the Marathon" had me teary and I am certain that I will need tissues in the theater. I have listened to Music that has brought me to tears, too. I guess to a bean counter like EnduranceMan that makes me a pathetic mess...

Everybody's different in regards to something like this. I told my wife last night (she's very empathetic), and the first thing she said was about his kid(s?). Me, I'm not that broken up about it, but I don't think that makes me a bad person. And I don't think people who are empathetic are messed up, they're just different from me.