Oh, very clever, kangaroo boy.

[msgenevieve]

Twenty-four hours ago, I sat down at my desk at work and, as I usually do in the fifteen minutes or so before I'm due to actually 'clock on', I drank my coffee and checked the news online. And a few seconds later, I read that Heath Ledger had died of a suspected drug overdose

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[sk56]

I'm sorry too, not so much because I knew his work well, since I didn't, but in part for all the hype passing itself off as news. It makes you hope that the dead don't know what happens next in the world they've left behind.

I understand your sense of identity with people who "come from the same place you do" -- my part of the US is pretty removed from the big centers of media and commerce, so that when we do come to the front of attention it's an odd feeling. Kurt Cobain's death was big and awful news here, and the phone calls from people elsewhere just made it more harsh.

[badboy_fangirl]

*wiping eyes*

This really sums things up for me. I've been thinking about it all day, what to say and how to express why my heart seems so broken by this tragedy. I'm an American, but he's four years younger than me, so there's some sort of innate kinship when you've grown up with someone you've seen grow up on-screen.

Thanks for posting. It touched me so much.

[ficangel]

I was only a moderate fan of his (seeing his name in a cast list would probably get me into a theater, but I didn't really follow him outside of his work), but it's still so hard to believe. I feel so horrible for that little girl of his, and I'm so glad that she's too little to understand much more than that he's gone, and not all of the garbage that people are saying. I'm confident that when the full story comes out, it will be that it was an accident alone: that he was having trouble letting go of the Joker and taking some completely legit medications that interacted with each other and his compromised physical state and created a tragedy

[sierra_foxx]

Well said, honey. I hadn't actually turned on my radio yet yesterday morning - it was an email that alerted me to the shocking news - I remember reading it and thinking 'OMFG!!
What? That can't be right.'

It's just so sad, and I am sure, like you, that it will eventually come to light that it was just a terrible, terrible accident. Which makes his death so much harder to deal with - it's the senselessness of it all that is so jarring.

RIP, Heath.

*hugs you*

[msgenevieve]

it was an email that alerted me to the shocking news - I remember reading it and thinking 'OMFG!!

Was that the "OMG!!!!" one I sent you or had you already been inundated? Sorry for piling it on if you had. *hugs you*

[sierra_foxx]

Yes, your email was the first one I got about it - but I had a few more after that, so don't sweat it.

I think we all needed to touch base to help each other deal with the news. :(

[katerosefic]

I'm still kind of in shock and denial over the whole thing. It doesn't seem real that one of my first teenage celebrity crushes isn't here anymore. I just watched 10 Things I Hate About You last week... unreal.