I’m just surfing the internet, and came across this. I had read about her death, and wondered about her life. She apparently dated Eli Roth for a time. She was married in the same church where her mothers funeral was conducted after she died of a heroin overdose. They are clear to call it an “accidental” overdose, but it seems silly to view heroin addiction as other than a form of Russian Roulette.
Her 11 month old baby was in the house, and if her husband had not come looking for her, a Trainspotting sort of scenario may have come about.
What is the source of her trauma? It would seem likely grotesquely erratic parents. How much trauma must her mother have had to be taking heroin? I will say, there have been times in my life where if someone had offered it to me, I might have taken it. All the same, if you love, truly love those around you, you find ways forward without risking your life.
Bob Geldof is best known for his work getting food to Ethiopia. What he is not known for is publicizing the cause of that particular famine, which was in my understanding a combination of Communist violence leading to civil war, and “agrarian reform”, which is where you march a bunch of people at gunpoint from farms which worked, to the middle of nowhere, and tell them to grow something without giving them seeds or tools. It is lunacy.
If his moral compass were intact, he could have BOTH sought aid, AND raised consciousness about the horror. But he doesn’t like Mondays, and the conscious work they require.
Any child in that much pain has been failed by her parents. This sounds judgmental, and it is, but that is my view.
We can do so much better as societies. Humanity can do so much better.
Creativity is nothing other than seeing something that was always possible, but simply unrealized.
OK. I will stop being an asshole.