Thread: Heath Ledger Dead

Originally Posted by fccexpert

Who gives a rats ass!!!!

This would be my usual response also --- but Heelerau made me realize everyone has a family that is affected --- I didn't even know who the guy was really, and in general I do have more important people/things to worry about ----- but a soul is soul, just not one particularly important to me.


Justin

Call me heartless but I can't help but chuckle at how many people I've spoke to who all enquired as to how far Batman was finished.

All in all though, it still is awful news. Poor bloke.

It shows how shallow the world has become when a young actor dies and the main concern of many is if some movie is finished. I feel for his family and friends, it is terrible for any parents to out live their child. I know, I have seen the impact first hand. The suffering will go on long after "Batman" is a faded memory.

Not long before his death he gave an interview that he could only sleep a few hours a night so started taking sleeping pills. If he took two he could only get about 2 hours of sleep. Then he started taking more. He had made plans to meet a director he had worked with before the day after his death. So now the police think it was an overdose of sleeping pills mixed with other perscription drugs that shouldn't have been mixed together. I guess since commercials show how easy it is to get sleep with Ambien and other drugs people just don't realize the danger of sleeping pills anymore. And most have no clue what the effects of mixing there perscription drugs have on them. I work a rotating 12 hours shift at the plant and a lot of the old timers have to rely on sleeping pills to get any sleep at all. Then they have to drink a ton of coffee to stay awake enough to work. I hope I never turn in to a coffee and sleeping pill zombie like those guys.

What I find interesting is the massuesse not calling 911 but rather calling the dude's 21 year old girlfriend 4 times. And that girl (miss drug addicted Mary Kate) does not react by saying Call 911 now! but "I'm sending my private security over"

What a bunch of brainless twits.

Originally Posted by Cyclophile

What I find interesting is the massuesse not calling 911 but rather calling the dude's 21 year old girlfriend 4 times. And that girl (miss drug addicted Mary Kate) does not react by saying Call 911 now! but "I'm sending my private security over"

What a bunch of brainless twits.

Maybe brainless... or maybe there were some things stored in her apartment (wasn't Ledger renting from her?) that needed to be removed before the police arrived and became public knowledge!

Originally Posted by Trev1960

It shows how shallow the world has become when a young actor dies and the main concern of many is if some movie is finished. I feel for his family and friends, it is terrible for any parents to out live their child. I know, I have seen the impact first hand. The suffering will go on long after "Batman" is a faded memory.

I know, but realistically, we should expect to have both emotions.

Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with Alzheimers. My Grandmother has it too, so I know what it does.
I feel for the man and his family.
But I also hope he will turn out more Discworld novels before the disease really takes hold.

I think it is only natural to feel both ways.

Originally Posted by jimmyseymour

I guess since commercials show how easy it is to get sleep with Ambien and other drugs people just don't realize the danger of sleeping pills anymore. And most have no clue what the effects of mixing there perscription drugs have on them. I work a rotating 12 hours shift at the plant and a lot of the old timers have to rely on sleeping pills to get any sleep at all. Then they have to drink a ton of coffee to stay awake enough to work. I hope I never turn in to a coffee and sleeping pill zombie like those guys.

Over here, such things can only be obtained with a prescription.
The only things you can get without it are the basic things like normal painkillers, antacid, light desinfectant...

Codeine, antibiotics, sleeping pills and all sorts of specialty drugs are prescription only, based on the assumption that non medical people do not know when to use them and when not.

But to remain ontopic: if you need to sleeping pills and coffee to try and regulate your biorithm, then something is wrong, and neither is going to solve the root of the problem.