Amy Winehouse is dead!

[master 245]

I thought it will end this way but it was much sooner than I expected !

 

http://news.yahoo.com/police-singer-amy-winehouse-dies-age-27-170841681.html

[Victoria Banks 21899]

Surprise but not really a surprise.

A Very talented lost soul. RIP

[Nicolette Vaughn 294340]

I think everyone saw this coming and it's a shame because she did have talent. R.I.P.

[EmilyRushton 253346]

This is very sad, may she now be at peace....

[Cleo Catra 178382]

She was a junkie. I really wish people would pay more attention to the real tragedy in norway than the death of a drugged-out celebrity.

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[Megan'sTouch 23875]

She was a junkie. I really wish people would pay more attention to the real tragedy in norway than the death of a drugged-out celebrity.

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The people in Norway are to (most of) us without faces and without histories. It's not fair or right, but we feel more emotion when there is a face and life story to the tragedy. We are only human.

 

Addiction and mental illness are a horrible evil, just like terrorism. I don't believe they are hierarchical.

[Andee 220524]

I would rather remember Amy when she was at her best:

 

[roamingguy 300291]

It's a tragedy that someone's life is gone at such a young age. While we can assume it is attributed to substance abuse, nevertheless it is a human life gone.

Condolences to her family, friends and fans

RG

[Victoria Banks 21899]

It's a tragedy that someone's life is gone at such a young age. While we can assume it is attributed to substance abuse, nevertheless it is a human life gone.

Condolences to her family, friends and fans

RG

 

Rock star lifestyle.

[Studio 110 by Sophia 150333]

Yes this does sadden me, it really is too bad, cause so much done for her to get the help she needed, it goes to show, even the best of us can slid threw the cracks!

[Old Dog 179138]

Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Michael Hutchence, Ian Curtis, Jim Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Stuart Adamson, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Wendy O. Williams, Michael Jackson... just a few names of musicians that have had a hand in their own demise.

 

Some will be remembered for their impact on the world of music, some will be remembered briefly for the impact of their lives and forgotten. Amy was a talented individual who let her demons get the best of her, and in the end they won.

 

My heart however does not go to someone who had everything and was a victim of their own success. As Cleo said, those lives lost in Norway over the past 24 hours or so have had and will have a more profound impact on all of us.

 

The 92 Norwegians, for the most part, were anonymous to us, as we were to them. They conducted their lives away from the spotlight, loving people we will never know, working at jobs as anonymous as they were, living in neighborhoods that we will never see. Those 92 people were more like us than Amy Winehouse. They lived normal, vanilla but no less valuable lives than Ms. Winehouse. We were the same as them.

 

Where Amy took her own life of her own will, these lives were ended short of the achievement of their dreams. Who knows what any one of those 92 could have achieved? If there was a hierarchy in terms of depth of emotion, the grief for these 92 is far more profound.

[PistolPete 61421]

Especially when some of 92 were the young ages of 14 through 19. Old Dog I was going to say the same about Winehouse,Joplin and Hendrix a struggle with an addiction took their lives, the Norweigans lives were simply snubbed out!

[Cleo Catra 178382]

Amy joined the 27 club! Eeeeep.

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[bewlayb 7480]

Regardless of the circumstances or her possible motives, I mourn the loss of a rare and exceptional talent. I enjoyed her music and I am sad to think there will be no more. End of.

[Malika Fantasy 144625]

She was not my favorite artist...but no one deserve to died this way...addiction is something really serious, and yes people bash her because she did drugs and now say oh we saw it comining....they are not sure but she may have done it by purpose...

 

and when someone is at the edge and only see death as the only possible escape, no matter what she did...it's sad. We can't judge someone over suicide...

 

and as for what happen in Norway, it's really sad as well...

[roamingguy 300291]

Amy Winehouse, the people in Norway, and a multitude (unfortunately) of other people daily lose their lives. The tragedy is that a life is gone, and once gone, won't be back. And for all the lives lost, they had family and friends who feel that loss.

So I'll offer condolences

RG

[Guest E*******h S******s]

Compassion is compassion. Whether it is for a young woman who was unable to get a major monkey off of her back or for the unfortunate people in Norway who were murdered, my heart goes out to every family who lost someone this week.

 

R.I.P.

[Alexandra-Sky 12606]

Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Michael Hutchence, Ian Curtis, Jim Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Stuart Adamson, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Wendy O. Williams, Michael Jackson... just a few names of musicians that have had a hand in their own demise.

 

Some will be remembered for their impact on the world of music, some will be remembered briefly for the impact of their lives and forgotten. Amy was a talented individual who let her demons get the best of her, and in the end they won.

 

My heart however does not go to someone who had everything and was a victim of their own success. As Cleo said, those lives lost in Norway over the past 24 hours or so have had and will have a more profound impact on all of us.

 

The 92 Norwegians, for the most part, were anonymous to us, as we were to them. They conducted their lives away from the spotlight, loving people we will never know, working at jobs as anonymous as they were, living in neighborhoods that we will never see. Those 92 people were more like us than Amy Winehouse. They lived normal, vanilla but no less valuable lives than Ms. Winehouse. We were the same as them.

 

Where Amy took her own life of her own will, these lives were ended short of the achievement of their dreams. Who knows what any one of those 92 could have achieved? If there was a hierarchy in terms of depth of emotion, the grief for these 92 is far more profound.

 

 

This is ridiculous! While I deeply empathize with the lives lost in Norway and I in no way condone what happened, I don't think we should let our anger towards the mainstream media about covering the Amy story more than the Norway story justify our awful feelings about people with mental health issues and addictions. There is something to be said about your comments above: how she was at fault for her own demise. Yes, while there is some choice involved in terms of recovery and getting your life in order, not just anyone contemplates suicide. There has to be some serious shit going on for someone to actually go through with taking away their own lives especially when they've been suffering as harshly as Amy was from her addiction. There should be no hierarchy of who's life was more important and which sentiments will be stronger. Murder and suicide are both awful and neither are the fault of the victims.

 

It seems like as a society we will just take every opportunity to blame and further stigmatize people with mental health issues and addictions. We really need to be critical of how we think about people we place in these categories and how are words resemble how we truly feel about the worth of their lives!

[Lowdark 5613]

While I have sympathy for Miss Winehouse's friends and especially her family (who went to great lengths to get her the help she needed), the reason my heart breaks at the tragedy of the murders in Norway is because, as has been mentioned before, so many of them were children. The children murdered on Utoeya island were gunned down by an evil man while many ran for their lives, terrified and wishing for their parents during their last, frightened moments. All the dead in Norway lost their lives to a monster wearing human clothing; Amy Winehouse lost her life to the demon she created but couldn't control. Hopefully Amy's death may sway somehone in the future to reconsider a bad decision that could lead to their own self destruction, but there is no possible way to balance the scales in Norway. There is no way to punish the crime or learn as a result. Make no mistake, no one should be happy Miss Winehouse died and we should all mourn the loss of a promising life, but myself, I cannot help but feel deeper loss, deeper anger and rage, at the mostly young lives taken so ruthlessly in Norway.

[Nicolette Vaughn 294340]

Comparing how someone dies is like comparing apples to oranges but nonetheless she was a human being and deserves some respect regardless of if she took her own life through drugs or any other way.

 

What if someone here from cerb took their own life god forbid or an SP was murdered? Would we say "Oh well she was just a whore or he was just another trick so it doesn't really matter." Maybe some people would feel that way but if you knew them personally or knew of them from this site you would feel some sort of impact. Imagine how her family feels. Lets remember that she was someone's daughter.

 

Yes, it could be debated that she had the world at her fingertips and that she brought this on herself and in the end her addiction won. It doesn't matter if she was leading a rock star lifestyle. No one deserves to die whether it is through drugs, a natural disaster or at the hands of a mad man. IMO, the way someone dies or its significance bears no relevance in my mind because death to me is a tragic thing overall. It is sad when anyone dies and they should be given the respect and dignity that they deserve whether it Amy Winehouse or those 92 people in Norway.

[Cleo Catra 178382]

The people in Norway are to (most of) us without faces and without histories. It's not fair or right' date=' but we feel more emotion when there is a face and life story to the tragedy. We are only human.

 

Addiction and mental illness are a horrible evil, just like terrorism. I don't believe they are hierarchical.[/quote']

 

You're right, and I do apologize for how harsh my previous comment came off. I logged in here and found this thread right after I'd logged on to facebook and found ten of my friends commenting about Amy Winehouse, and not one speaking of Norway, and it made me upset. I have issues with how celebrities overtake so much in the media but that shouldn't effect the death of a person. I apologize.

[Reddog01 30280]

Sorry this happened. ate5fe that no comment.

[Guest W***ledi*Time]

... It is sad when anyone dies and they should be given the respect and dignity that they deserve whether it Amy Winehouse or those 92 people in Norway.

 

Yes, absolutely.

 

Not to mention the 250 children dying of starvation daily in just one region of Somalia (according to UN estimate). As drought and famine continue to develop in East Africa, tens of thousands have already died and 11.3 million more are at risk (estimate of the World Food Program). Just what is the value of a human life, anyway?

 

Each and every human life.

 

The Canadian Federal Government is currently matching our donations to those registered organizations that have funds earmarked specifically for East African famine relief (for example, http://www.redcross.ca).

[SamanthaEvans 166766]

I don't know Amy Winehouse. I know what I heard: she was a woman with an extraordinary talent the likes of which we rarely see. I've read a lot of the things about her that many others here have read and I don't know how much, if any, of it is true. I can see from her photos and from accounts of her behaviour that she was a deeply troubled woman. I'm sure that, as an addict, she was battling demons that I can't even imagine and that she was contending with them by herself. She made the choices it takes to become addicted; I'm pretty sure about that because that's how it is with most people. What drove her to consider such choices to be reasonable, appropriate or inevitable I don't know. I doubt that many people do.

 

What I am sure of is that no one is ever prepared for the meteoric rise from nobody to mega-star that Amy Winehouse and some others have experienced. I'm also sure that few people realize how someone's fame affects others in their lives--how fame can distort their relationships and create malignant dependencies in their friends and family members. Those very things can feed an addiction like kindling feeds a fire. Addiction always involves many people other than the addict. Some celebrities' family and friends actively encourage the star's addictions because they can profit from the manipulation and control they can exert over the addict. This kind of fame is a hideous toxin. It took everyone in the so-called "27 club." It took Michael Jackson and many others, too.

 

I'm very sorry that Amy Winehouse has died today, whether by accident or by her own hand. I'm sorry that the demons in her head were too much for her to overcome. I'm sorry if she was unable to get true help or if she was surrounded by people who had complex needs and hopes of their own and who could not be good for her, or with her. I'm sorry that we have lost that amazing voice, that staggering talent.

 

I am just as sorry for the families and friends of the people who were murdered in Norway today. I don't know any of them, of course, and I can't really imagine what they must be going through other than that it probably seems like a nightmare that doesn't stop in the clear light of day. I wish I could do something for the victims' families. If there is something that can be done, I will try because I have no tolerance for the slaughter of innocent people.

 

I am also sorry for the family and friends of the man who killed all these people in Norway. A lonelier, more desperate and lost group of people is hard to imagine tonight. I hope that, in time, they may find some kind of peace and understanding, that they may find ways to make sense of what this man has done and that they may not be unjustly tormented by ignorant outsiders who may try to hold them responsible in some way for this man's choices.

 

I have to say that I am sorry for the man who committed these monstrous acts. The demons besetting him have won today. That is a genuine tragedy. Whether he or any of us will ever understand what drove him to do what he did, I don't know, nor do I know if understanding would help any of us become more compassionate people, such that no one we know will ever be in danger of being so dangerous to anyone else.

 

Finally, I want to say that we do not live in a world of competing sorrows. Experiences of pain and loss are individual: there is no hierarchy or scale of values. The grief one person carries gracefully might easily be impossible for another to shoulder. In the end, pain is pain, grief is grief, loss is loss. All are real.

[bewlayb 7480]

Without a doubt the events in Norway are tragic, shocking and very saddening. It's very evident from this thread that our community is feeling the pain of those events and has a strong need to express those feelings. But I must ask: Why here? And why can I not find a thread dedicated to this topic? I find that a bit odd.