I admire Heath's body of work very much and he sounds like a cool down to earth guy, however I think the other tragedy is the protecting of how he died and what sort of behavior and outlook/rational led up to it as if it is sacrilege.
He may have been a brilliant actor, but not much on the common sense side. Any person whose mother of his child threatens that he can not see his beloved child when he is using drugs, that continues to whine about it as he continues to use drugs is a drug addict. No two ways around it.
Heath Ledger was a drug addict and paid for it with his life as many drug addicts and alcoholics do. That is the lesson here. The lesson is that you can and may very well die young if you continue to use drugs improperly no matter what your station in life.
My prayers go out to his daughter, the mother of his child and his family. They are the victims here. They had no control over what he put in his body and had no choice in it proceeding his death. I wish he could have taken the help offered to him earlier seriously.
Well said. I don’t doubt that it was an accident, but it appears that the man accidentally swallowed a pharmacy. No common sense.
Did you hear the spin his family put on it?
“In a statement released through Ledger’s publicist, Ledger’s father, Kim, said Wednesday: “While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath’s accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage.”
That’s like saying someone committed suicide from a lethal combination of a little bit of stabbing, a little bit of buckshot, a little bit of strangulation and a little bit of beating oneself over the head with a brick.
It’s amazing just how far some people can stick their heads up their butts.