How?

[nycbound2004]

I don't post, and everyone else is posting this, but....how does this happen?

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/index.html?hp
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/heath.ledger.dead/index.html

I'm astounded. Celebrity deaths usually don't hit me, but this one does.