amy winehouse vs. norway tragedy...

It's sad that people think it's okay to value one life over another. Amy Winehouse had an addiction. If anyone would be sympathetic to someone caught up in the throes of addiction, I would think it might be members of MFP, many of whom are dealing with food addictions. I read on here daily people begging others for motivation, saying they need "cheat" days, stubbornly refusing to give up non-nutritious sodas because they *have* to have it. How many times do you think Ms. Winehouse said that about drugs or alcohol? How many diets have you started and failed?

The incident that happened in Norway is sad and tragic. That does not diminish the fact that Ms Winehouse was so unable to get control of her addiction that it appears that it has cost her her life.

If you think the people in Norway are not being properly mourned, why not focus on changing that? Why do we need to further diminish Ms. Winehouse's sad life by attempting to devalue it further?

Why can't we mourn for both?

It's sad that people think it's okay to value one life over another. Amy Winehouse had an addiction. If anyone would be sympathetic to someone caught up in the throes of addiction, I would think it might be members of MFP, many of whom are dealing with food addictions. I read on here daily people begging others for motivation, saying they need "cheat" days, stubbornly refusing to give up non-nutritious sodas because they *have* to have it. How many times do you think Ms. Winehouse said that about drugs or alcohol? How many diets have you started and failed?

The incident that happened in Norway is sad and tragic. That does not diminish the fact that Ms Winehouse was so unable to get control of her addiction that it appears that it has cost her her life.

If you think the people in Norway are not being properly mourned, why not focus on changing that? Why do we need to further diminish Ms. Winehouse's sad life by attempting to devalue it further?

Why can't we mourn for both?

I second that, regardless of how they died, at the hand of someone else or self inflicted, it doesn't change the fact that they are no longer living with us and in my eyes they deserve the same amount respect..

I hope that they are all at peace wherever they may be x

It's sad that people think it's okay to value one life over another. Amy Winehouse had an addiction.
Why can't we mourn for both?

I agree. Death is sad no matter what the circumstances.

Yes... It makes me sick. SHE did this to herself... SHE wouldn't get off the drugs... We all knew it was coming, who cares. The Norway tragedy is WAY MORE important than her death.

I agree that it is wrong that Amy Winehouse gets more press than the tragedy in Norway but that is just downright mean.

exactly. a life is a life. i hope you never have to lose someone you care about to addiction, or watch someone struggle and fall over and over again. let me tell you, it's heartbreaking.

I agree! ALL of it is heartbreaking! The reason we are here on mfp is to get a hold of our own demons to one extent or another. My Mom never took care of herself...even with all of the family intervening...she had diabetes and heart disease partly due to her own addiction to food, a tendency to binge and purge and smoke....even then we mourned at her dying too soon at 57 years old rather than getting mad at her for being unable to tackle her demons. Anyone dying is a sad thing...

anyone else think it's backwards that her death seems to already be eclipsing the gunning down of nearly 100 people? what a world, what a world...

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No ****. Who the hell cares about some 27 year old super-drugie who pissed an enormous amount of talent away. Screw her... The situation in Norway was horrible.

How insensitive. You wouldn't be saying who cares if it was someone you loved. This sentiment is the exact reason people die from addiction. People do too much blaming of the person and not enough helping and treating their problem.

I don't watch corporate news so I would have no idea about who is getting more press. I know my thoughts have been on the people of Norway. Sadly I have been waiting for something like this to happen for some time, I just didn't expect it to happen in Norway. There is so much hate and propaganda being pushed around and people spread it around not considering how it could affect others down the road.

As for Amy Winehouse it is sad. Some people have a harder time quitting drugs for a reason and it is NOT because they're bad people. For instance there is a link between ADHD and addiction and how the brain reacts to rewards. That's just a fact. I am not saying that is how it is for everyone, but to pretend that everyone is the same is nieve.

Well sheesh people we can have a heart. Both instances are sad and could have been avoided. I don't think either one is "more important" than the other. Both things happen all the time in the world.

The media only latches on to stories they think people will care about, apparently they think people care about a cracked out drug addicted flash in the pan pop singer, than a terrorist attack.(you'd think the USA would care about them more, even though it happened in another country, and I mean terrorist not in the typical sense the media paints them to be)

Gooooooood bless americaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

i feel for amy's family i truely do, but i admit to having little sympathy for amy herself, whilst i know that addiction is hard to beat, she had so many chances to turn her life around and had a much stronger support network than a lot of other addicts do and she wasted those chances and i think this is a great shame.

but i have been very annoyed with the ammount of coverage her death has received in comparison to the deaths in norway and china, especially when 2 seperate news reports (on different channels) have reported it as being the main news this weekend, one (bbc3) even said it was the only news that weekend on one of its reports on saturday