Heath's Family: He Did Not Kill Himself

151. It's not so much HOW he died that matters as much as it is THAT he died.

Posted at 1:26AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Dee-O

152. 126. "no one will get the insurance money if it was suicide"

My mum committed suicide and we still got the life insurence. Some places still give it as long as there was a certain amount of time between the policy being taken out and the death.

Posted at 1:31AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by my heart aches for his family

153. Wow. out of all the actors in Hollywood he's the last one that I would have though of as dead. What a sad way to start 2008. My respects to his family, especially his very young daughter.

Posted at 2:17AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Lori

154. how sad! i loved him in 10 things i hate about you,and a knights tale especially! my prayers go out to his family and michelle and his daughter mathilda. if he had pneumonia and had been filming a movie to he was tired and weak taking sleeping pills when his lungs were struggling with the illness perhaps caused him to passout face down and suffocate? regardless of the autopsy reports he is gone to soon and will be missed.

Posted at 2:32AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by heather

155. For those of you posting negative comments about Heath Ledger right now, you should be ashamed. A young man's life has just been lost. Whether on purpose or by accident does not matter. It is still a tragedy. Any decent human being would keep their personal opinions about Heath and his career to themselves during such a time. Our hearts should go out to the the ones left behind who personally knew and loved Heath and we can only hope the he knew God and his loved ones can find some sort of peace in such a sad time.

Posted at 2:44AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by AP

156. I have felt totally sad all day. I feel sorry for Matilda who will never kiss or cuddle her daddy again. All of us here in western australia are very devistated. RIP Heath... My thoughts go out to his wonderful family, Michelle and Matilda. Like Tigerlilly, you will only know your father through film and clips, and other peoples memories, you will not be able to build ones of your own. Please TMZ no crappy footage...

Posted at 9:19PM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Nooz

157. HEATH LEDGER ,deceased 1 DAY and theories abound.IS THIS A SOCIAL ruse or will we ,stop reporting ,POSSIBLE DEMISES of people of interest.OTHERS DIED ,yeterday ,for many reasons ,in many ways.IM not coldhearted ,just CYNICAL of embracing DEATH ,AS readons to communicate.LETS report life AND good news .ANYONE LIVE TODAY.YES ,now im gratified.SORRY for being othe side of MUNDANE LIFE and ANTI MACABRE DEATH ,in all ways

Posted at 3:54PM on Jan 23rd 2008 by PAUL REVERE

158. "We are deeply saddened and shocked by this accident," said publicist Mara Buxbaum in a statement, regarding the sudden death of Heath Ledger, 28.

By now we have all heard the story and by now you are more than likely, tired of hearing about it.
Yet something is sickening and striking to me, and I am tired of staying mum.

Heath Ledger, died and it is tragic, he possibly had a bright future ahead of him and a beautiful daughter, yet to call his death an accident is just a disgusting and flashy anti-hero type of lie. Drug abuse is never an accident. It is a conscious choice that each user and addict makes. Each addict and "casual user" is completly aware of the consequences; and Hollywood's drive to glamorize it as an accident is disturbing.

Drug abuse, no matter the nature, is like playing Russian Roulette. One knows the game, the rules and the tragic out come. In the end, somebody is going to die and somebody is going to be held responsible. In this case Ledger was the "loser" and his doctor with be the one held responsible.

My baby brother chose to play this druggist version of Russian Roulette, and he died. It was December 12, 2004 exactly one month before his nineteenth birthday. My baby brother decided that he didn't want to deal with life, that he needed an "escape". This need cost him his life and along with that life, a bit of our own lives.

By calling these deaths accidental, like Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole Smith and even Ike Turner, all we are doing is informing people from all generations that dying from drugs happens only to those who aren't cautious. Letting the user believe that they can continue to do it, because they won't become depressed, they won't become suicidal, after prolonged use, because they aren't stupid. Yet if you ask me, drug use in itself is pretty damn dumb.

Currently we are building the ego's of "out of control celebs" and watching them spin to their deaths.
Come on everyone!
Wake Up!
Let's ban together, no matter how hard it is, and stop buying the tabloid magazines that constantly print photographs of celebrities under the influence and those who are known to be using. Stop attending movies, buying albums, downloading photographs, and visiting web sites linked to these celebrities! Then write them, write them constantly, do what you can to insure that they stop, so that at least we can say that we tried to stop them, that we did something. You never know, saving one celebrity life could save the life of an average person like you and me.
Brenda Anshanslin, 25

Posted at 4:43AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Brenda Anshanslin

159. WHAT A SHAME THIS IS. HE WAS A VERY GOOD ACTOR. IM SORRY FOR HIS FAMILY. AS FOR THE MEDIA. MY BROTHER PASSED AT 40 AND THE WORD WAS THAT HE OVERDOSED.THAT IS THE FIRST THING THEY SAY WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG. I DONT SEEE THIS GUY DOING THAT.FOR THE FAMILY THEY SHOULD WAIT UNTILL THEY KNOW WHAT KILLED HIM.MY BROTHER HAD A VERY BAD HEART BUT THERE ARE STILL SOME PEOPLE WHO THINKS HE OD,ED EVEN WHEN MY DR. SAID HE DIED FROM A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK. I WAS A LITTLE HURT WHEN THE RUMERS WENT AROUND. KNOW ONE KNOWS YOU LIKE YOUR FAMILY SO WHY NOT WAIT UNTILLL THEY KNOW WHAT KILLED HIM. THIS IS A REAL SHAME

Posted at 5:44AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by LORETTA SPENCER

160. To The Prince of Knight....this is such a sad sad moment to know that we will never see heath ledger act again on movies in the future, to know that batmat was his last movie. he had the ability to make us laugh/love/cry with his acting. So so sad to loose such a beautiful person, which such a beautiful outlook on life.
No matter what happened to him, whether he took his own life or not, it is such a sad moment and my thoughts go out to his family and friends and how they will cope i do not know, but i hope they find the strenght somehow. SLEEP IN PEACE PRINCE OF KNIGHT-we will miss you xxx

Posted at 6:20AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Samantha from Dublin lreland

161. i knew it was an accident! he had too much to live for

Posted at 6:25AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by sarah from england

162. How dare you number 10 commenter. You are one of the most disgusting, immature, selfish, rude arrogant person i have ever read a comment from. Think about what his family and friends are going through and you make a stupid comment like that. Get lost. Nobody wants to read things like that. Seriously. Get. A. Life.

Posted at 6:25AM on Jan 30th 2008 by Bobby

163. this is a very diffiult time for his family and the mother of his child it would be nice if all the speculation would stop and leave them in peace. the ones writing all this trash would want it that way if it were them. May God be with them in their time of need.

Posted at 8:02AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by rkkip

164. Filming him being taken out in a body bag is very low .....

Posted at 8:02AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by lisa

165. How very sad - my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. The combination of pneumonia and sleeping pills might be the cause - perhaps he was taking something for his illness that interacted with the sleeping pills. Whatever the reason, his loss is so tragic and heartbreaking, especially since he has a young daughter.

Posted at 8:25AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Barb