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Slight nitpick, but Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose [0]. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledg

• goldenkey 8y ago
  Accidental is rather bold. I'm sure Ledger was aware he was playing with fire. I've taken hard drugs for chronic pain -- and the threshold of difference between pain relief, sedation, and ultimately death- it is a stark dosing and feeling difference, not easily overlooked. I'd garner 90% of overdoses from clean drugs (not fentanyl swap/cut with other things), 90% are people who have an existing death wish. The risk is like penance, self whipping or cutting or whatnot. It is almost cathartic because they think the result is binary; either death or numbness. But we all know that there are medical midpoints like brain death or organ failure..etc.. Depressed people tend to be catastrophic, taking complex odds and possibilities and projecting them onto a binary, almost altruistic pair of contrasting outcomes. Its sad..I only know this because I suffer the same way..just not with drug abuse anymore.
  • danieltillett 8y ago
    Well there was no indication he was depressed or wanted to die, just very wound up and unable to sleep. Certainly combining multiple drugs is asking for problems as many people have found out the hard way.