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Posted: Dec 20 2009 05:53 pm

Undeath wrote:

On top of that, it just makes me nervous when people close to my age die young. Like Heath Ledger. I think he was only a year older than me.

Yeah, but that was really weird and fucked up circumstances.

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I don't think a famous actor found dead of a drug overdose with drugs all around him is out of the ordinary anymore, Hawk.

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I believe she meant that the average person shouldn't be nervous over the death of a celebrity when it involves heavy drug overdose.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 12:01 am

That's really surprising. She was really young, R.I.P.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 02:23 am

I saw this as a line at the bottom my mail homepage and had clicked away before I was like "Wha..?"

Unexpected to be sure, but I'm guessing drugs.

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R.I.P Brittany Murphy.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 02:57 am

So uh, is it now inappropriate to masturbate to her?

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LOL. Give it a couple days to be fair.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 04:55 am

joshwoodzell wrote:

I don't think a famous actor found dead of a drug overdose with drugs all around him is out of the ordinary anymore, Hawk.

Sadly true. My point was just that Undeath didn't need to be nervous, since Mr. Ledger's death involved things that 'Death (hopefully) doesn't have to worry about. Age wasn't really an issue.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 07:06 am

Black Zarak wrote:

Unexpected to be sure, but I'm guessing drugs.

Yeah,32 year olds just don't have heart attacks at random unless there is some congenital defect there, or they have a thick history of drug abuse and/or eating disorders.

It's really tragic though to die that young for any reason. I liked Brittany a lot and think the world is an uglier place without her.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 10:10 am

Sounds a lot like a cocaine OD from everything I have read, but there is also a chance of a heart defect that went undiagnosed, we will find out after the toxicology screen and autopsy. She was something special and I am going to miss her. : (

Posted: Dec 21 2009 12:09 pm

So I forget, was [adult swim] having new King of the Hill episodes made or was that over and done with? Would be kinda hard to make the show without Luann...

Posted: Dec 21 2009 03:08 pm

It's not that I imbibe in certain unhealthy habits that would indeed cause a heart attack in my late 20's-early 30's or anything, it's just that lately deaths, especially young deaths, have been getting to me because in my personal life I've just lost two cousins and a close friend through completely preventable and stupid accidents in the past few months. We all have that shell of invunerability and mine's been thoroughly shattered over and over again, to the point where I'm the opposite of desensitized-- ie, more younger people die, the more it frightens me.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 03:17 pm

Black Zarak wrote:

So I forget, was [adult swim] having new King of the Hill episodes made or was that over and done with? Would be kinda hard to make the show without Luann...

Nah, they could just ship her off to some camp or a long-lost relative or something.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 04:26 pm

Undeath wrote:

It's not that I imbibe in certain unhealthy habits that would indeed cause a heart attack in my late 20's-early 30's or anything, it's just that lately deaths, especially young deaths, have been getting to me because in my personal life I've just lost two cousins and a close friend through completely preventable and stupid accidents in the past few months. We all have that shell of invunerability and mine's been thoroughly shattered over and over again, to the point where I'm the opposite of desensitized-- ie, more younger people die, the more it frightens me.

well, you have to realize that you are going to die. until you realize that, you will be held back in anything you do.

a man once said 'death smiles at us all. all we can do is smile back'

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It's been a day now, and it's weird. No other celebrity death has really affected my mood.

Posted: Dec 21 2009 07:50 pm

If Justin Timberlake or Peyton Manning die, my world will collapse, and guess who's coming with me...All of you.

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well, justin timberlake did bring sexy back, so if he died we'd have to wait for someone else to do it again.

Posted: Dec 22 2009 03:51 am

Kim Peek, the man who inspired the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man," has died at age 58 of a heart attack.

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Black Zarak wrote:

So uh, is it now inappropriate to masturbate to her?

This exact thought came into my head as soon as i heard.

Though too soon i think.

Posted: Dec 22 2009 10:50 am

Apparently a recent SNL skit that made fun of her has just been pulled.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=448311&gt1=28103

Personally, I don't agree with this kind of PC/censorship or whatever you want to call it. Was the skit "distasteful" before she died? Now suddenly it's wrong to allude to the possibility that she used drugs, because it turned out to be (most likely) true?

For the record, I never saw the skit and don't know if BM ever used drugs. Never followed her career or personal life. But if it's true that she died of a drug overdose, why is it ok to poke fun at her use before she died, and not after?

Posted: Dec 22 2009 05:06 pm

Olivia, from Sesame Street (Alaina Reed) just died--breast cancer.

Posted: Dec 23 2009 07:27 am

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Personally, I don't agree with this kind of PC/censorship or whatever you want to call it. Was the skit "distasteful" before she died? Now suddenly it's wrong to allude to the possibility that she used drugs, because it turned out to be (most likely) true?

For the record, I never saw the skit and don't know if BM ever used drugs. Never followed her career or personal life. But if it's true that she died of a drug overdose, why is it ok to poke fun at her use before she died, and not after?

Because she's dead. Is it really that hard to understand?

Poking fun at her when she's alive and can be in on the joke or even defend herself is fine, but now that she has tragically died so young, probably from said drugs, it's in bad taste and no longer funny. Only sick motherfuckers would still find the skit something to laugh at and I don't think SNL wants to hear crickets in the audience when they perform it.

It's like making fun of Britney Spears when she went crazy and shaved her head, but then if she died of cancer a week later, suddenly riffing on her bald head and craziness isn't all that funny anymore. Get it?

Posted: Dec 23 2009 10:31 am

Pandajuice wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Personally, I don't agree with this kind of PC/censorship or whatever you want to call it. Was the skit "distasteful" before she died? Now suddenly it's wrong to allude to the possibility that she used drugs, because it turned out to be (most likely) true?

For the record, I never saw the skit and don't know if BM ever used drugs. Never followed her career or personal life. But if it's true that she died of a drug overdose, why is it ok to poke fun at her use before she died, and not after?

Because she's dead. Is it really that hard to understand?

Poking fun at her when she's alive and can be in on the joke or even defend herself is fine, but now that she has tragically died so young, probably from said drugs, it's in bad taste and no longer funny. Only sick motherfuckers would still find the skit something to laugh at and I don't think SNL wants to hear crickets in the audience when they perform it.

It's like making fun of Britney Spears when she went crazy and shaved her head, but then if she died of cancer a week later, suddenly riffing on her bald head and craziness isn't all that funny anymore. Get it?

Comparing a person suffering from cancer to an advantaged person who becomes a drug addict is a weak analogy. I'm sorry if I lack sympathy for a person who had fame and fortune heaped upon her, and then voluntarily destroyed herself.

Ok, I'll concede that taking down the skit is probably the right thing to do, if only for her family's sake (and also the fact that a few SNL members have died in similar fashion). But I still don't have a grain of sympathy for her. She won the lottery in life, and threw it all way.

Posted: Dec 23 2009 12:13 pm

I didn't make the analogy to appeal to your sympathy, but to reflect that doing any skit making fun of someone after they've died is in poor taste.

You don't need to have sympathy for the person to realize that whatever joke they were going to make is no longer funny and that's what the decision was about.