I for one will miss her. When she came on the scene in the 80s' she was a refreshing voice and a great new talent.
Anyone seeing her during the superbowl singing the National Anthem will remember it as one of the best renditions ever.
How or why she died matters not to me. It is however a travesty that she died at age 48.
Sad.....she made me smile, hum and tap my feet. However she passed, it still is a shame.
People lose their lives every day for a myriad of reasons. The day we're born we start dying.
There is no question that she will be missed. I will miss her, as well. There have only been few female vocalists that had pipes like she did and there will be only a few after her that will have talent of that caliber.
Her death, while tragic as it may be, was ultimately of her own doing. This is not an era of 50 or 60 years ago where recreational drug usage was rather new to the entertainment industry and there were not plenty of examples of what the effects of a serious aaddiction could be. Everyone knows the dangers and pitfalls of drug abuse and addiction these days. There is no way that she did not know the possible outcome.
It is really easy to quote the Golden Rule and I cannot disagree that perhaps her friends could have intervened in a more aggressive manner. However, when invoking the niceties of the Golden Rule of doing unto others, consider that if your friends aren't trying hard enough, perhaps they aren't really your friends. It is even worse when your friends enable you to feed, hide or help justify the self-denial of your condition.
It may not be
nice, "politically correct" or adhering to the Golden Rule to discuss the fact that Whitney was her own worst enemy, but it is still the truth. It is the truth of any addiction, of any type. The fact of the matter is, the truth usually hurts and seldom does it make good bedfellows with being
nice.
