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Melissa Etheridge reveals son Beckett Cypher died from opioid addiction
NY Post ^ | May 13, 2020 | Alex Heigl

Posted on 05/14/2020 3:02:48 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

Melissa Etheridge’s son Beckett died from opioid addiction, the singer revealed Wednesday night.

“Today I joined the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction,” the singer, 58, wrote. “My son Beckett, who was just 21, struggled to overcome his addiction and finally succumbed to it today.

“He will be missed by those who loved him, his family and friends. My heart is broken. I am grateful for those who have reached out with condolences and I Feel their love and sincere grief,” the note continued.

“We struggled with what else we could have done to save him and in the end we know he is out of the pain now.”

“I will sing again, soon,” Etheridge’s note concluded. “It has always healed me.”

(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...


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As sad as it is to lose a loved one you almost have to wonder if this was his destiny. Melissa married Julie Cypher and they had 2 kids through sperm donor David Crosby, probably the least deserving liver transplant recipient in history. It makes you wonder if there is a self-destructive drug addict gene to pass on.
1 posted on 05/14/2020 3:02:48 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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And yet I think Rosie’s (boy i hate her) kid is in the marines.

It’s ironic in that it was likely a rebellion.

Though he did say he felt like he owed something to the country.

And of course she said “No, you owe ME something!!”

quite a “mom”


2 posted on 05/14/2020 3:06:49 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white baroy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

He must have got into mom’s stash... Sad story.


3 posted on 05/14/2020 3:27:32 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Non-traditional family life is just as good as the real thing. /s


4 posted on 05/14/2020 3:30:19 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (This tagline is an advertisement-free zone. Is yours?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

CHINA!

XI SHIPS FENTANYL TO KILL AMERICANS!


5 posted on 05/14/2020 3:33:30 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (BOYCOTT CHINA! - spread the word .... (China is the Sick Man of Asia with a very small penis))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
I had no idea who this person is and after researching her, I know why and I still don't care.

My inner Angel and Devil are now having a fight about how I land on this.

The old saw about every life is precious is over worked, so I have to say, this hag contributed to the sons death{Devil won}.


6 posted on 05/14/2020 3:33:45 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Ridiculous. No one dies from opioid addiction. They die from overdosing on opioids.

This is part of the absurd propagandistic fantasy which seems to govern modern discourse, like SUVs killing people in fatal accidents.

If this boy stuck a needle in his arm and died, say so.

IMO part of the problem we are having with the China virus crisis is due to the overblown opioid “crisis” where prescription medication was conflated with heroin and fentenyl. The fear tactics, lack of distinctions and out of control virtue signaling were promoted in a frenzy much to the country’s enstupification and infantilization.

Instilling hysteria in a population is easy to do, apparently, and dangerous. We seem to be riding on a constant wave of hysteria, where even good people get carried along without any questions.


7 posted on 05/14/2020 3:38:22 AM PDT by Gratia
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His bio father was drug addict David Crosby.


8 posted on 05/14/2020 3:53:03 AM PDT by orangefloyd
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These new ways of shaping and raising a family are really turning up asses.

Oh I mean aces.


9 posted on 05/14/2020 3:59:15 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Children of homosexuals have very high suicide rates. Just like the parents.


10 posted on 05/14/2020 4:01:37 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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Imagine naming your kid "Cypher"!

Cypher:
1) a secret or disguised way of writing; a code.
2) a zero; a figure 0.

No father, named "secret, disguised, zero" - never had a chance.

11 posted on 05/14/2020 4:01:41 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Looking at the picture, I wonder if he was a she at one time. Not that that would contribute to a tragedy like this, of course.


12 posted on 05/14/2020 4:02:12 AM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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XI SHIPS FENTANYL TO KILL AMERICANS!

Americans take Fentanyl to kill themselves.

13 posted on 05/14/2020 4:03:19 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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Melissa Etheridge smokes pot with her kids
By Lindsey KupferApril 17, 2017 | 1:46pm

https://pagesix.com/2017/04/17/melissa-etheridge-smokes-pot-with-her-adult-children/


14 posted on 05/14/2020 4:13:18 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Dr. Fauci says that this could be another mutation of COVID-19, and that in 9 months, we might be able to flatten this new curve and start to very slowly return to life under Woodrow Wilson.


15 posted on 05/14/2020 4:15:20 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: beef

That picture looks like it was taken when he was about 12, kind of like all of the Trayvon Martin pictures and nothing like he looked when he died.


16 posted on 05/14/2020 4:17:25 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Rusty0604

I’ve seen videos where Parents actually inject their grown kids with drugs.....let alone get their supply.

Wouldn’t be surprising that other families are druggies.


17 posted on 05/14/2020 4:21:23 AM PDT by caww
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To: Jim Noble

Cypher was the mother’s surname.


18 posted on 05/14/2020 4:26:51 AM PDT by babble-on
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.....”No one dies from opioid addiction. They die from overdosing on opioids”.....

A distinction which is seldom mentioned yet is the actual reason they snuff out their own life.


19 posted on 05/14/2020 4:27:35 AM PDT by caww
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Etheridge’s son Beckett was just 21 yrs.old.

Etheridge said in a 2017 interview with Yahoo that she regularly smoked with weed with Beckett and Bailey Jean. The singer said,... “It was funny at first, and then they realized it’s very natural [at the] end of the day. It brings you much closer. I’d much rather have a smoke with my grown kids than a drink.” .......Etheridge added, “My family, all four of my children, understand cannabis. They call it medicine.”


20 posted on 05/14/2020 4:40:52 AM PDT by caww
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