Re: Police: Singer Amy Winehouse dies at age 27
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: springer01</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KillShot</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Donttrytorun</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The woman has been a unrepentant druggie for years. She had plenty of opportunity to do something about it. "Lost control of her life" my ass. She chose, every time for years now, to pick up the crack pipe. It's not cheap, or easy to live that life for this long, but she made the choice.
There were plenty of periods of not being high, and ample time for introspection.
She chose drugs instead of a career or life.
She chose....poorly.</div></div>
I couldn't have said it better myself. That goes for all drug addicts, alcoholics, or those who smoked like a f*ckin freight train for the biggest part of their lives only to wind up with throat or lung cancer. I mean, really, what did you think would happen by partaking of all the bad shit that you've seen destroy other people's lives?!
They <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="text-decoration: underline">KNOW</span></span> what the end result will be when they pick up that bottle of liquor, cigarette, hypodermic needle, or crack pipe. Yet, they chose to ignore the warning signs and now they must face the consequences of their actions.
I refuse to feel sorry or have compassion for someone who chose to live their life in the gutter, especially when they have the world at their fingertips, only to throw it all away for a cheap fix and wind up in the shitter. </div></div>
Addiction is a disease, a sickness, if it so easy as to just stop she wouldn't be dead. If you think being an addict is something people just choose to be you have never really known a true addict. I agree it is ultimately their choice, but unfortunately the choice isn't as easy as just quitting and everything being all good again. My .02..
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They had to choose to mess with the junk in the first place. No one put a gun to their head and made them do it. Piss poor decision making and reasoning skills is what caused her death.
You know why I have NEVER been addicted to anything? Because I have NEVER allowed myself to partake of things that I KNOW will have a lasting effect on the rest of my life, if not fatal consequences. I have been next to homeless, unemployed with less than $200 to my name, and only a few belongings in the cab of an old '88 Chevy gas-guzzling truck that I could call my own. Yet, no matter how bad the outlook seemed...I REFUSED to use my situation as an excuse/crutch to be spineless and become an addict.
For what it's worth, I have known a true addict; my younger brother who is still battling an addiction and no, I don't cut him any slack about it, either.