It's amazing that a post about someones death can become a pissing match with posturing about ones superior intelligence.
Un-fucking believable. I'm staying out of that one.
Anyway, there was a post about 6 months ago with a similar story. It was about 6 months prior to that were someone else had died and each time there were words of regret and remorse.
This is the problem. And this is why I have the perspective that I do. I was a child of the 60's. I grew up with all the sensationalism and misinformation about drug use, mainly pot. Because the rhetoric was so off base, we (those of us between 15 and 20) all assumed the powers that be didn't know what they were talking about. If they were wrong about pot, they were probably wrong about everything else. I had friends who could explain the process of how the chemistry of the brain was affected by a certain drug better than any chemistry professor. And with that knowledge came an arrogence. They knew more. They could control it. Bad things only happen to stupid people -- to the "other" guy.
Needless to say, many of those friends are no longer here. They died long before their lives had a chance to accomplish something meaningful. The coroners report listed the deaths as "drug overdose", but I disagree. What they really died from was denial.
Every time something like this happens I think back to what Dan Duchaine said to me not long before he died. He said; "Just because the medical establishment was mistaken about certain aspects of steroids, didn't mean they were mistaken about everything. That's where we went wrong."
Dan was a genius, and even he was wrong about a lot of things. Still, that was the past. We know more now. We learned from his mistakes. He didn't have the informaton we have now. It could never happen again.
See you in 6 months.