Actress Brittany Murphy is dead

I'm the least chick-flick inclined woman on the planet, but Clueless is one of my favourite films. It's very sad.

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165978

Anyone willing to bet this tragedy isn't drug-related?

caw

blacbird said:

Anyone willing to bet this tragedy isn't drug-related?

caw

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Yes. She was reportedly a diabetic, and her husband is apparently a fairly shady character. He's already trying to prevent an autopsy. Link.

Give it 4-7 days and we will know what drugs..

AryaT92 said:

Give it 4-7 days and we will know what drugs..

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What do we gain by jumping to conclusions? It may have been drugs, it may not have been.

My youngish and apparently healthy cousin died of a sudden heart attack almost two years ago exactly. It wasn't drugs. It was just unexpected heart failure. I'm glad people weren't rumor mongering that he was a druggie while we awaited the autopsy.

Devil Ledbetter said:

What do we gain by jumping to conclusions? It may have been drugs, it may not have been.

My youngish and apparently healthy cousin died of a sudden heart attack almost two years ago exactly. It wasn't drugs. It was just unexpected heart failure. I'm glad people weren't rumor mongering that he was a druggie while we awaited the autopsy.

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Agreed. Her death is a tragedy. I loved her in the Michael Douglas movie. She looks so thin in recent pics though.

A lot of diabetics seem to drop dead in the bathroom/shower, usually in the morning because they've been sleeping. It's possible drugs weren't involved.

Might have been an esophageal varices from an eating disorder. She looked Ally McBeal skinny. No matter what it is, it's sad.

Type I diabetes can cause weight loss, so it's not even necessarily the result of an eating disorder. Likewise, there is a diabetes med associated with heart failure.

I don't know why she died, I just wouldn't assume it was recreational drugging without knowing more.

Eating disorders (though we're not sure that's what this is) are serious business.

Without knowing more, I do find it unfair to project cause of death.

There are people who still believe Heath Ledger committed suicide or overdosed on illegal drugs because of the early speculation, both of which are untrue.

My heart goes out to her friends and family. That is a very young age to die. There seems to be a lot of those young deaths going around lately. Far too many in my own community that's for sure.

"Natural" in this context means that no intention to die was involved--ie they don't think she was murdered or committed suicide.

Dear God. We don't know. Because she was a celebrity, we'll find out -- which is probably not really fair.

katiemac said:

There are people who still believe Heath Ledger committed suicide or overdosed on illegal drugs because of the early speculation, both of which are untrue.

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Actually, from what we know, Heath Ledger in fact did die from an overdose of "illegally obtained" drugs, as I understand: a cocktail of prescription cold medicines no reputable physician ever would have given him.

Regards Brittany Murphy, she had a reputation for drug use that was well-known in the Hollywood community, to the point that it was satirized on SNL. Frankly, this death strikes me as closely similar to that of Michael Jackson, which also initially was reported as "cardiac arrest", and which we now know by official report was due to a massive overdose of a non-prescribed (and probably illegally-obtained) potent anaesthetic drug, court proceedings pending.

This does nothing to mitigate the tragedy of her death. In fact, if drug use turns out to be true, it ought to generate anger, in addition to grief. Look, they might find, via autopsy, that she had some undiagnosed congenital heart defect, and it killed her. The valedictorian of my high school class, a close friend of mine, a state champion track athlete who got an athletic/academic scholarship to Yale, died of exactly this cause at the age of 21 after a casual round of tennis with a friend just before he was to graduate. It happens, and maybe did so this time. But the signs are disturbing, at best.

caw

blacbird said:

Regards Brittany Murphy, she had a reputation for drug use that was well-known in the Hollywood community, to the point that it was satirized on SNL.

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What was this? I don't remember anything about it. I was only really familiar with Brittany Murphy's work, not her personal life. But I don't remember a skit about this.

It bothers me that some people believe a drug overdose is something to be ashamed of. It's a sickness, not a life choice. It should be treated as such in life and death.

It doesn't matter to me if it was drugs, weight loss, diabetes, or just a bad ticker. It's all sad.

blacbird said:

Regards Brittany Murphy, she had a reputation for drug use that was well-known in the Hollywood community, to the point that it was satirized on SNL.

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I had to Google her to find out who she was. You're really up on your celeb gossip!

Wayne K said:

It bothers me that some people believe a drug overdose is something to be ashamed of. It's a sickness, not a life choice. It should be treated as such in life and death.

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Yes, I agree. I would say the same about having an eating disorder. However, I still wouldn't want someone saying that about me if it were not true.