<p>Another tragic life.</p>
<p>Sad, but not surprising.</p>
<p>It was inevitable, given her path.</p>
<p>Her life and death are good examples of how no one can make you sober up or shape up. You have to want to. You have to fight the demons. You have to accept help. Unfortunately, her “hitting bottom” was her death. May she rest in peace for the first time.</p>
<p>Given what happened yesterday I have very little sympathy for someone who did it to themselves - she had much more help than the average addict ever gets and she through it back in everyones face.</p>
<p>Yikes! Maybe a good message for teens, though… In their face that it is so hard to live or or kick.
Addiction is so terrible.</p>
<p>Addiction * is * terrible.
Our culture is so quick to blame those who are ill, for their illness.
[Tony</a> Bennett: The industry should help Winehouse - Musicrooms.net](<a href=“http://www.musicrooms.net/index.php?news=36716]Tony”>http://www.musicrooms.net/index.php?news=36716)</p>
<p>Very sad, and such a waste of talent.</p>
<p>Back to Black is one of my favorite albums ever, and I’ve always relished Amy’s originality. Watching her self destruct over the past couple of years has been very sad. RIP Amy.</p>
<p>I agree with those who are not too surprised. Still makes it very sad.</p>
<p>Am I the only one whose first thought was, “They tried to make her go to rehab but she said no, no, no”. Yes, I know it’s inappropriate. It truly is a shame. Another talented life absolutely wasted.</p>
<p>No you’re not Splashmom. And my second thought was “gosh, I hope Lindsay Lohan is paying attention…”</p>
<p>So sad, so much talent. But I have to agree that I saw this a mile away. Stay away from bad influence; drugs will kill you.</p>
<p>I saw this when I was out earlier. I expected the cc thread title to be “sad but hot surprising. Amy Winehouse”.</p>
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<p>Addiction is extremely difficult for us to understand, especially if we have never been addicted. It isn’t rational. It isn’t about willpower. It isn’t just treatable and solved by seeing help. An addict is always an addict, and every day remains a struggle for many.</p>
<p>Someone very close to me became addicted as a teen, spent all of his young short life fighting it, and finally succumbed to it at a similar age as Amy. This person- like Winehouse- had been in and out of different rehab but there were always relapses. And despite being a very intelligent and wonderful human being that did not want to die, he still lapsed despite doctors telling him that ‘one more time and he would not make it’. It made no sense, it still does not, but I can not judge. It is just very very sad and tragic.</p>
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<p>Addiction is extremely difficult for us to understand, especially if we have never been addicted. It isn’t rational. It isn’t about willpower. It isn’t just treatable and solved by seeing help. An addict is always an addict, and every day remains a struggle for many.</p>
<p>Someone very close to me became addicted as a teen. He did not choose to, he just made a really dumb mistake at an immature age (actually no different than most of his partying classmates at the time, but for him it meant being enslaved from the get go, biochemically speaking it seems). He literally went from a straight A hard working nerd who was never invited to parties…to trying to be cool…to a drug addict, almost overnight. He spent all of his young short life fighting it, and finally succumbed to it at a similar age as Amy. This person- like Winehouse I believe- had tried rehab, some treatments, had good years and worse years, but never was able to beat it. </p>
<p>And the person I lost, despite being a very intelligent and wonderful human being that very much did not want to die, still lapsed despite doctors telling him that ‘one more time and he would not make it’. It made no sense, it still does not, but I can not judge. It is just very very sad and tragic.</p>
<p>Addiction is classified by the AMA as “a chronic, fatal disease, with a tendency to relapse.”</p>
<p>People don’t “do it to themselves,” anymore than diabetics do.</p>
<p>Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Kurt Cobain
Amy Winehouse</p>
<p>All dead at 27. How bizarre.</p>
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<p>Well, in Kurt Cobain’s case, the body was unable to tolerate a shotgun blast to the face for more than a few tenths of a second.</p>
<p>“People don’t “do it to themselves,” anymore than diabetics do.”</p>
<p>Both diabetics and addicts who refuse treatment, and suffer consequences from the lack of treatment, are indeed doing those consequences to themselves. Any adult diabetic who says “Shut up about your damn insulin, I don’t want it” and subsequently dies of sugar shock is responsible for that choice, even if they didn’t choose to be a type 1 diabetic.</p>
<p>Thousands of people with terrible addictions are voluntarily staying in unlocked rehabs as we speak. Hundreds of thousands more are choosing to call their sponsors or go to meetings instead of using today. Amy could have afforded a multi-year residential program and a sober coach by her side 24/7. She didn’t want that. She chose this path. That doesn’t make it any less tragic – if anything, it is sadder because it was so unnecessary.</p>
<p>I love Tony Bennett, but I’m not sure what the music industry could have done to help her. If her family couldn’t make her get help, what could her employer do? It’s a horrible loss for the world. There’s no one else who could create what she gave us.</p>
<p>I think they do indeed do it to themselves but it doesn’t make it any less tragic…and certainly not surprising. We were all saying this morning how ironic that so many were 27.</p>