[Suesquatch]

Yes.

http://www.people.com/people/article...209356,00.html

[tencat]

What a waste of a life. She's only 23? She looks at 20 years older. I, too, think she'll be gone by Christmastime.

[canoehead]

June 2009 :

[HM2Viking]

I just think dead pools are in extremely poor taste.

It is absolutely tragic that she is having these kinds of health problems at 23.

[Suesquatch]

Originally Posted by HM2Viking

I just think dead pools are in extremely poor taste.

It is absolutely tragic that she is having these kinds of health problems at 23.

Yes, they are. They're also fun.

[hypocaffeinemia]

Originally Posted by Suesquatch

Yes, they are. They're also fun.

LOL

The upside of death pools are that maybe it might force the subject to get their lives together.

See what happened with Britney Spears.

It's kind of like a doctor telling a patient if they don't stop drinking (or smoking, etc.) they'll be dead in a year-- it's a warning that they will soon pay the pied piper if they don't stop their destructive habits.

I totally agree they are in bad taste. Participating in one demonstrates a personal shortcoming, perhaps, but at least I'm not snorting crack cocaine to the point of emphysema while simultaneously shooting up every other drug imaginable!

zing!

[RainDreamer]

She's abusing drugs because she's very sick. I don't see how that's anything to make fun of. JMO.

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Elvish

I am going to show you all what a rock I must live under - I previously had no idea who Amy Winehouse was.

She won some major grammy awards this past year, but couldn't attend the ceremony in the US and performed via satellite. She was in drug rehab at the time and couldn't get a visa.

She's part of a new "British Invasion" of female singers that include Leona Lewis (very classy graceful lady), Duffy and Adele to name a few. American charts have been very tough to crack for British artists for a long time....just ask Robbie Williams who is the biggest star in the world except here.

[Suesquatch]

Originally Posted by RainDreamer

She's abusing drugs because she's very sick. I don't see how that's anything to make fun of. JMO.

Oh, please. I'm a recovering everything and if I don't laugh I'll use.

She's a walking train wreck. While I hope she gets help I'm not going to quiver with sympathy at her self-destruction.

[earle58]

i'm certainly not going to point fingers at the death pool.
shooooot, some of my most pant-wetting laughs, have been around some of my dying pts.
that daaaaaanged nsg humor (for some of us, anyway).
you just can't escape it.

leslie