The sad news of yesterday was the death of Amy Winehouse, of unknown causes but likely to be connected to her long-standing struggle with drinks and drugs.
Her death has shown how even talented individuals can become victims to things that affect everyone from the everyday man in the street to the rich and famous, and her death is a tragedy in that she wasn't able to tackle her condition.
There are lots of issues that have come up from her death. Firstly how much of a talented individual she was, which is difficult to disagree with, though her turbulent personal life meant she didn't have the output or success she really should have, and much has been made of her poor live appearances.
Then there have been the connections to other news stories in the press. The deaths in Norway have been shocking and, yes, involved the deaths of people that had no control over the situation whereas Amy brought the problems on herself. However, that's a simplistic way of looking at it and though, yes, she did bring it upon herself if the death is related to drug abuse, it's a serious condition and not something that people could just give up like *that*.
There is tragedy happening all over the world now and, yes, her death has at times overshadowed other events but that's the nature of breaking news. All over the world people are dying in terrorist attacks, acts of nature and in famines etc, but is that a reason to dismiss any other deaths and tragedies? It's not really for me to say, but different people tag onto different stories. If we all worried about every tragedy that befell every individual or community then we would never be done.
It needs to be rememebered that this is only one of many, many deaths that happen each day but that fact shouldn't be used as a stick to bash people over Facebook and Twitter who comment on her sad passing.
But that's enough waffle on the rights and wrongs. Here's three of her hits to remember her by. The one thing I would hope for with her death is that young people will learn from her problems and realise drugs are not something to mess with.
Sunday 24 July 2011
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