Ok... out of respect - I will post this here to 1) avoid a FWZ in the off topic forum... 2) say whats on my mind and 3) people can call me an ass-hole for doing so, so soon after his untimely demize...(when in a few weeks, most will likely forget all about this subject...)
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out of off topic...(I originally started writing this in..)
To me - any drug overdose is never 'accidental' when all that is known about the dangers - and the known problems with mixing them makes them that much more dangerous, again this is very well known and advertised. If ignorant, then maybe its an accident, but as an adult exposed to all the anti-drug campaigns - I highly doubt he could claim ignorance.
Granted I was not close enough with this person to know them well enough to judge, nor enough to weep any more than a child who suffers from a disease they had no hand in causing.
But because he was a star in hollywood - some people will literally cry over his death - and to me - that comes off as patronizing and insincere, if not misplaced.
Its a shame he (along with countless others) felt he needed pharmacology to get through the day/night - to me thats the real shame. His death should be the wakeup call those who rely on pharmacology to get through life... but doesn't seem like it - there will likely be others in the future. *Thats* what should make people weep. Thats the real shame of this, Keith Ledger is yet another poster child of the real problem.