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To: Norm Lenhart

I understand your sentiment, but you are splitting hairs. It’s a tragedy for her daughter and family - not just her death, but the whole string of events that led to her death. We are all flawed, some more than others, so show a bit more empathy. Coldness is never attractive.


243 posted on 02/11/2012 11:46:43 PM PST by Dave W
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To: Dave W

Sorry, but I have no “empathy” for a crack head who chooses drugs to life and leavebytes 19-year-old daughter with one parent- Bobby Brown. Let’s try to keep this.reality based at least.


244 posted on 02/12/2012 12:35:11 AM PST by CWSNTEXAS (Am I'm the ONLY Conservative Jew in America? What's wrong with you other schmucks?)
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To: Dave W

Dave, did you ever consider that id we as a society stopped lionizing celebrities who take their own lives through willful acts or through misadventure, if we stopped fawning like schoolgirls at a Bieber concert everytime one of them did something like this, that they, and by association ‘regular people’ would possibly think twice about doing it themselves - ans thus make the world a better place?

“My life was horrible, but people will love me in death.”

And so they go on killing themselves knowing there will be either a National day of mourning in their honor or even just a nice article in the local paper.

Instead, we should call it what it is. A bad thing. A warning to others to get their poop straight.

Instead, we have Michael Jacksonian spectacles where they have parades and memorial TV concerts and their record sales skyrocket...telling the next generation that this is a great way to go down in history.

It is sad that this happens. It it not ‘attractive’ to enable that behavior. That’s something you may wish to ponder.


262 posted on 02/12/2012 12:24:52 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Normie: Wandering Druid, Cult of Palin)
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