Everyone is of course saying it was cuz of drugs and of course other people get mad at that, just like they did with Amy Winehouse. Evidently it’s insulting to think “drug overdose” is the most likely cause of death when you hear a noted drug abuser has died. Plus, they’re not releasing the reasons, which suggests drugs.
Not releasing the cause of death of a celebrity always means drugs cuz they dont wanna get sued by broadcasting what the initial diagnosis is in the event that its wrong. you can verify a chainsaw to the face right away and dont have to worry about broadcasting “heart attack” even if the real answer is later “stroke” but if the first answer is drugs, they keep it hushed until theres medical proof (and sometimes not even then).
So far, only one person deleted me for posting this on Facebook:
andWhitney Houston just became all of our bodyguards…
cuz… she’s dead… and like…angels n’ stuff.. -Sorry, not to be disrespectful – but idk how fast the news of her death is traveling and I really wanted to make that joke but it doesn’t make sense unless you know, so… Whitney Houston is dead at 48. but try not to let that news distract you from my cultural reference joke, k? In times like these it’s important to remember what things really matter in life. and that thing is almost always me. ?
and then the follow up:
Whitney Houston is finally re-united with her career, which passed away over a decade ago. R.I.P. them both.
I was about to say the following in my own words, but someone on facebook already beat me to it: On the subject of dark humor – in this case, the use of humor surrounding the death of a famous person:
either everything can be funny, or nothing can. black humor works with the understanding that it’s not what people really think. if you start saying you can’t joke about this, can’t joke about that, you very soon end up with a very short list of stuff that’s cool to joke with. as soon as a line is drawn, someone will protest it’s too far, and someone will protest it’s not far enough.
I think it’s poor taste to go and harrass people that are sad about something with jokes about it, people should be free to grieve whatever, but I really don’t want to consider an internet where it’s uncool to say something as a joke, as unfunny as some or a majority may find it.
Inarguable logic, right there.
Sorry she’s not alive though. She probably had more greatness to give in her.
These pictures at the Daily Mail are the last photographs of her.
Happening right now:
