RIP, Whitney.

[AJ]

I'll just leave this right here...

+1

[CairnsDuc]

Call me heartless, but I feel nothing. If you surround yourself with people who do not care about you then its your own damn fault. Addiction, yes she is a mother make the beast with two backser, but with all the education about adictive drugs and with all the people close to her that allowed this to happen. I do not feel sorry for Whitney, she is in a better place.

Yep, couldn't agree more.

[The Bacon Junkie]

I'll just leave this right here...

Whitney Houston Died Today. So Did Sgt 1st Class Billy A Sutton.

...then go straight to the ban yourself thread.

word.

[ab]

Hmm so a famous person dies n suddenly it's wrong to say RIP. 

Why do ppl Feel the need to express -ve sentiments when ppl are expressing sadness.  It's kind of sad and childish.  I guess the saying to the effect of speak no evil of the dead means nothing.

[The Bacon Junkie]

It's not wrong to feel sad or say RIP. 

I just have a different viewpoint on this particular subject than you do. 

That's why this country is great.  We have the freedom to disagree and not fear any backlash or severe consequences (other than Internet indignation) from it. 

Whitney used to make beautiful music.  Then she got involved with substance abuse.  Now she's dead.   It's a terrible thing. 

But. 

I think there's a disproportionate show of attention to her death, while sad, than to someone who voluntarily puts their life in danger, defending our great nation, so we can have the freedom to squabble like children over the internet. 

But, that's just my perspective. 

[The Mad King Pepe']

I think there's a disproportionate show of attention to her death, while sad, than to someone who voluntarily puts their life in danger, defending our great nation, so we can have the freedom to squabble like children over the internet. 

^^^^ I think that is the point.

I'm genuinely sorry Whitney's dead. I remember her in the movie "The Bodyguard", and I loved her voice.

But I don't like all this media hoarding over hear death. I don't see any "love" for a person who has passed away, just a form of fetish, an obsession with every bit of (so called) news.

And it's not just with Whitney, same thing with Michael, or football, basket ball, whatever...

[ZLTFUL]

The day Whitney Houston died, something like 10000 people (random number to make a point) died worldwide of some drug related cause. The news made no mention of them.

Whitney Houston was an entertainer. She sang pretty well but it isn't like she was 1. the first musician to ever die. 2. The first musician to die from a drug related cause. 3. The first person to ever die.

I wish I could care...I really do. But with friends and relatives dying every day from things that they didn't cause to themselves (cancer, heart disease, etc etc), I have bigger things to worry about than some worthless musical has been.

Call me cruel, call me heartless, call me sad. I don't care about Whitney Houston.

[ZLTFUL]

Pretty sad when our nation has nothing better to have conversations about.

[muskrat]

THIS

[kopfjäger]

If someone joined (joined) the Military for Fortune and Fame, they are dumber than a bag of hammers.

[Triple J]

But I don't like all this media hoarding over hear death. I don't see any "love" for a person who has passed away, just a form of fetish, an obsession with every bit of (so called) news.

And it's not just with Whitney, same thing with Michael, or football, basket ball, whatever...

This is it. A lot of people are just tired of celebrity worship in general.

RIP Whitney, although I don't feel much personally.

That said, a lot of us (including me) were bummed when Simoncelli died, and there was plenty of discussion and coverage in the moto media. Different circumstances, but no one compared his death to the troops...probably because a lot of us on this board are more into moto racing than Whitney's music. It's all perspective.

[DRKWNG]

If someone joined (joined) the Military for Fortune and Fame, they are dumber than a bag of hammers.

Would that be a bag of the ever-elusive $435 hammers?

[ZLTFUL]

If someone joined (joined) the Military for Fortune and Fame, they are dumber than a bag of hammers.

And you have missed the point entirely. It is directed at the sentiment of the general populace. "We" idolize celebrities. "We" worship everything they do. Yet "we" pay the people who sacrifice everything to protect our rights and liberties almost nothing. Rarely are the ones that die honored in such ways as the drug addict celebrity that most likely ODed. They hardly even get a thankful handshake in public. That isn't THEIR reason for doing it. But it should be our way of honoring them.

Personally, I find it repugnant that "we" honor people like Eli Manning and ignore the men and women who wake up every day not sure if they will see their loved ones again because they have a desire to protect the greater good.

[kopfjäger]

We don't care

[kopfjäger]

Would that be a bag of the ever-elusive $435 hammers?