Now, please don't think I am absolving a person of all responsibility. I'm not! But read this next line closely, and if you are in AA you will have heard it a million times:
We may not be responsible for our disease, but we ARE responsible for our recovery.
Absolutely. And that responsibility is the very reason for my original comment. You and I...and a million like us, took that responsibility. When we had finally hit bottom, we did something about it. We may have had friends, divine intervention or both, but we ultimately in some way took responsibility.
That WH did not ever take that responsibility, after years at ‘rock bottom’ is why I don’t see it as a tragedy. Bad, unfortunate etc. yes. I don’t hate her, or want to mock her or anything like that. I feel bad for her family, real friends etc. I even feel bad for her and the life she could have had.
I just do not see it as ‘tragic’ when so many unknown die every day through accident, abuse, terror, etc. I really believe that word has lost it’s true meaning since every bad thing that happens in the world, someone calls it a tragedy.