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He didn't deseerve to die, and he doesn't deserve ridicule in death

Well, I don't know if he "deserved" to die or not. But, apparently, he brought it on himself.

I think he was a good actor and a good man

Like many, you think you can tell whether a screen actor who acted in a few movies you liked and whom you didn't know personally was a good man. We do live in a celebrity culture where this is common.

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I'm not into any kind of celebrity culture. But being a Batman fan, I've been looking at Ledger more for his involvement in "The Dark Knight." No, I didn't know him personally, but I do know that he recently autographed a picture of himself as the Joker and auctioned it for charity. And he didn't do it for publicity either; in fact, he tried to do it discretely without the press finding out. I thought it was a very good thing for him to do. And a shame that he died a few days later.

Like many, you think you can tell whether a screen actor who acted in a few movies you liked and whom you didn't know personally was a good man.

Consider what you're saying...you've never met him either and don't know any more about him than I do. And yet you can pronounce judgements about what a bad person he was and how he deserves to be mocked and ridiculed after death. Pretty classy.