People are so F@#$@# ignorant, and like to fill the vacuum of their ignorance with baseless speculation, ridiculous stereotypes, and general stupidity.

ARRRGH.

They are people, and that is all I need to know. They don’t ask to be our role models. They don’t sign contracts that say that their personal lives are our business. It isn’t in the fine print that we get to know all the ugly details. We don’t have to watch and we don’t have to spend money on what they produce. There is no obligation. The make millions because WE make an active choice to spend that money, not because there is an obligation.

Comments naming specifics on speculation or giving any details on Ms. Murphy’s CoD or condition or making judgments on her as a person will be deleted permanently. That is my call. Sorry if it hurts your sensibilities. Actually, no, I’m not. This was a post to remind us that a human being died.

*tsk, tsk* Hollywood people. So typical. That would never happen to me. /speculation about the speculators.

We don’t have to watch, so we didn’t.

Astrid~ Yes. That was the first sign that anything was wrong with my dad. I know 32 is young, but 44 isn’t much older, really, when you think about it.

Part of this thing is, I don’t get why it matters so much to so many people. Why is speculation so much fun (don’t answer that, heh.)?

As for all the speculation, I think it may be because we don’t want to think of the fact that there is absolutely no guarantee that you would know if someone else, or even yourself, has an illness that could lead to early death. It is in fact quite possible that the first sign of cardiac disease is sudden death, but we don’t want to know this. Therefore, there *must* somehow be an explanation. When really there may not be one, and if there is one, it is none of our business.

This. So much this.

Thank you for saying what other people are missing about this whole thing: It’s sad and horrible, but the ‘why’ isn’t our business.

My heart goes out to her family.
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Oh, man, ouch. Yes.

I felt so much the same when Heath Ledger went. I was so upset about it, on so many levels. Argh. I can’t talk about that any more or I’ll just get going, and that’s not why we’re here.

I feel so bad for Brittany Murphy. She had the most amazing, unfeigned, goofy laugh. I didn’t much like many of the movies she was in, but I loved HER in everything I saw her in. She was beautiful in a very accessible way, she was gifted at appearing unfeigned, and she wasn’t afraid to make herself look silly just because she was pretty, too, like a lot of beautiful actresses appear to be.

My heart goes out to her family and friends, and to all of her fans who loved her more than I did.

This hit me hard. A beautiful post, and thanks for making it.