Perhaps unpopular opinion.

FrauKlein · December 2009

If you didn't suspect Brittany Murphy would pass at a young age, you weren't paying attention to her behavior much.

I'd not be surprised if it was drug or anorexia related. Doesn't mean it's not sad for her family, but...surprising? No.

preppynewlywed · December 2009

Yeah my first thought was "drugs."

Amorlinda · December 2009

i agree

capinjen152 · December 2009

preppynewlywed:
Yeah my first thought was "drugs."

Ditto.

Jenandtonica · December 2009

I definitely wasn't paying much attention to her behavior. Most celebs make me want to bash my head in, so I don't pay attention to their shenanigans.

Lyssapee · December 2009

Those were my exact thoughts. Drugs or eating disorder.

I'm thinking either one of the two cause an irregular heart beat and lead to cardiac arrest.

Scout05 · December 2009

I saw her photo from a premier a few weeks ago and she just looked SO thin. It's sad, but I agree. You could tell something was really wrong with this young woman.

Izzybeth3 · December 2009

preppynewlywed:
Yeah my first thought was "drugs."

same

greenclown · December 2009

I just assumed when I heard that it was due to drugs or an eating disorder. Or both.

FrauKlein · December 2009

I guess I'm just weary of hearing what a tragedy things like this are when a LOT of the time - those people did it to themselves. I'm sure their families are devastated, but I just don't see how some of it constitutes an actual "tragedy".

iowandfw · December 2009

my first reaction was anexoria

Jenandtonica · December 2009

I think "tragedy" is a word that's overused by the media. It's one of those hot words that grabs people's attention.

Anyone with loved ones who dies before said loved ones feel it was his/her time - I'm sure their death is tragic to their loved ones.

I'm just not sure each of these young/"untimely" deaths should be labeled as a general tragedy rather than a personal one.

Yes, I'm Cyndi Cynic.

buckin · December 2009

Mine and Dh's first reaction. Cocaine. But I also have in the back of my mind her husband with the whole con-artist/deportation/quick marriage etc. He was probably a druggie too and helping her habit along.

jCamsquared · December 2009

I hardly paid any attention to her, but it still didn't surprise me.

staycee · December 2009

my first thought was eating disorder. then drugs once I heard that her DH didn't want there to be an autopsy.

jlee1106 · December 2009

Yep. Overdose. Watch.

A 32 year old does not have fatal cardiac arrest due to "natural causes".

::runs back to my own junkies::

danlexi04 · December 2009

fredalina:

FrauKlein:
I guess I'm just weary of hearing what a tragedy things like this are when a LOT of the time - those people did it to themselves. I'm sure their families are devastated, but I just don't see how some of it constitutes an actual "tragedy".

ITA. Bob Denver running into a tree while skiing = tragedy. Christopher Reeves falling off his horse at a horse show and becoming a quadrapalegic = tragedy. Drug overdose by a celeb (esp. a fairly minor one) =/= tragedy to me. To their families, perhaps, but not to the world. i don't even think MJ's death was "tragic." Nor Elvis's. No more so than any other drug overdose death.

This! And I wouldn't be suprised if her shady husband was a part of this whole thing. I'd love to know where he was as she lay unconcious on the bathroom floor.

Becky19 · December 2009

I totally thought drugs and anorexia. And I wasn't surprised at all.

zoieglow · December 2009

I don't pay attention to any celebrity's behavior but even if I was, it's always a surprise to me when someone that young dies. People I don't know spreading rumors about other people I don't know doesn't exactly add up to me knowing what's going on in that person's life enough that I could have an opinion on whether or not their death was imminent.

ginifred · December 2009

My initial thought was anorexia.

Especially after seeing that picture of her in that black strapless outfit.

FrauKlein · December 2009

Perhaps it's simply that I work in an environment where death and dying are commonplace. And I'm certainly not saying that it's not a sad event for friends and family...

But it's not really "rumors" so much as something observable if you had ever seen or heard her. It was pretty obvious she was doing something terrible to her body, via one route or another.

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