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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7203797.stm

Bit of a shock!

Shocking news

RIP Heath

always a shock and very sad to hear of the death of someone with their whole life ahead of them.  RIP Heath.

Never looked the drug taking type to me, shocking...

Shocking.  Crazy world.

2nd young actor to die in a week,

Brad Renfro ( played the young boy in The Client ) died last Monday, he was only 25

So sad  :(

Bit of a surprise.

I always thought he looked a bit like Alan Shearer:

(http://cache.eonline.com/Gossip/Answer/Images/210.ledger.heath.091505.jpg)

(http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4562/airr8fx.jpg)

...but I think I'm on my own there!

Bit of a shock eh, didn't think he was the drug taking type either, but then I guess why would I know.

His family quoted as saying "an accidental overdose"
Isn't that a bit like walking across the M1 in rush hour and getting knocked over by accident.

What a waste

everyone who is saying it's a "tragedy" is also exagerating a bit. A shame, and sad for his family..but a tragedy it most certainly isn't.

When will they learn?

SAY NO TO DRUGS

Not sure he was druggie Tk, anti-depressents after splitting up with his long term gf and mum of his child.

With respect, rubbish! Any loss of life is a tragedy, surely?

It's a pity for sure.

Pity the wee child he's left behind.

Pity his family.

Pity the young fans out there who looked up to him.

Pity these famous people, with all their money, won't use it to seek professional help instead of tablets.

 

It is?  Someone dies every 6/7/8/9/10* seconds.   Are all those deaths tragedies? 

Although in the literary use of the word 'tragedy', I guess his life fits - tragedy: "a literary work that begins in prosperity and happiness and ends in adversity or misery."

Someone's telling me he looked like Johnny Wilkinson.  I still say more like Alan Shearer.














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not at all. Someone who takes his own life is a wasted life but I can't see how it is a tragedy in this case. Not everything is a tragedy, honestly it isn't. Hell, I'd even go as far as say most people (including myself) are not that important in the grand scheme of things to warrant the term tragedy when they die. A tragedy is something that, when it happens, it has a big impact on life as we (the general we "the many people"..not the personal and individual we)  know it. The Tsunami in Asia was a tragedy for instance.

It's a pity, it's a shame but a tragedy it isn't in my book.

Stalin once said:

"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

Boldie's right - it's a tragedy for those who knew him, it's sad for those who didn't, but were fans of his and it's slightly underwhelming for those of us who switched on Sky News last night to see them talking about a famous Australian actor who had died and thought they were talking about Russell Crowe. Heath Ledger was simply not on my radar at all.

Now we've got a thread going.........
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tragedy noun (tragedies) 1 a serious catastrophe, accident, natural disaster, etc. 2 colloq any sad event • an absolute tragedy when Aberdeen lost that goal. 3 a serious play, film, opera, etc in which the protagonist is brought down, usually by a combination of events, circumstances, personal flaws, etc, and which often involves them having to examine, and try to come to terms with, the extent of their own culpability in how things turn out. See also catharsis, hubris. 4 such plays as a group or genre. Compare comedy. 5 loosely any sad play, film, book, etc, especially one that ends with an unnecessary or untimely death, but that does not necessarily have the conventional elements of classical tragedy.



bugger it I think you may all be right

no I'm right

Boldie is wrong. He's German, he has to be wrong..its the natural order of things

I thought Russell Crowe was a New Zealander?

Hmm seems like a case of scented candle inhalation leading to delusions of power supremacy methinks

yeah, Tighty..you're power hungry!..unfortunately the German in me can not relate to that :)

Born there - moved to Australia when he was a small child, so a cultural Australian (if that's not an oxymoron).

You have a German in you?

;gobsmacked;

Brokeback BoldieMountainsaments

Oxymoron kills all known Germs dead

and we're back to the guy that dies.

See? everything in life is connected.

 i think people should have some respect for the guy who died on this thread tbh.

 apparently he played a suicidal son in the film Monsters Ball which is sadly prophetic.

 RIP.

No one has been disrespectful.

They may not have displayed 100% continuous brow-beating veneration of someone they didn't know, but that's not the same as being disrespectful.

agreed.

thought he was a great actor

very versatile

RIP

Im not 100% but im sure it was Heath that playing a very convincing drug addict in a film i seen last year....but alas i forget the name

tragedy for the family, friends and fans perspective- sad for people who have just heard of him.

He was a good actor and by the look of the new batman film I think it looks like a good part he plays. Sad really! in terms of people stating opinions on whether it was a waste etc we dont really know the full outcome of whether it was suicide or accidental but i'm never one to pass judgement on someone regardless- especially when I dont know them personally

 i didn't say anyone was disrepectful , i said people should show respect on this thread.

 there's other threads we can have a bit of banter , imo a thread about a man's death is not the place.

 and saying he looked like jonny wilkinson , come on , that is like stamping on his grave.  ;tracet;