I agree. She was way out there. I don't think it would be too difficult for her to O.D. from an unintentional overdose.
Take some antidepressents, add some liquor, Xanax or other drug, her son's death and daughter's birth, and it wouldn't be too hard to overdo it. Especially if she had someone 'helping' her along.
I always felt that way about Marilyn Monroe as well.
"I don't think it would be too difficult for her to O.D. from an unintentional overdose."
I'll only add that the phrase 'unintentional overdose' becomes problematical past a certain point in addiction. As was pointed out to me upon my arrival in AA in 1970, I'd "been committing suicide on the installment plan" for quite some time. Couldn't and didn't argue with that -- it was obviously true. (For the record, I've been continuously sober ever since. I don't take credit for that. I know darned good and well that AA and the fine people in it are the reason I'm still upright, if you catch my drift.)
It saddens me that Anna didn't choose to remain sober following her stay at the Betty Ford Center in 1995. Though we don't yet know the official cause of her death, there isn't a chance her addiction or addictions did her any good.