Peaches Geldof is dead, age 25

[Awesome Wells]

I despair (relatively speaking): a young woman passes and the reaction from the Scum is to show her as a teenager in her knickers. How fucking crass; is that how we are to view 'celebrity death'? Is that how women who die whilst in their prime are to be seen?

 

[Gromit]

Sympathies to those left behind in grief.

Debating whether media prompted public grieving over celebrities is crap / not crap belongs in a separate thread in my opinion... which i may or may not start.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I bet the paparazzicunt that stuck a camera in Mick Jagger's face the other week is camped outside the Geldof house.

 

[Wilf]

"After Peaches Geldof was found dead at 25 on April 6, police who searched her home that night say they found no evidence of ‘hard drugs, no suicide note and no visible signs of injury’ at the scene."

http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/04/07/peaches-geldof-cause-of-death-drugs-suicide/

Hollywoodlife also gave us 'stories' on:

'Celebrities who are aging horribly'
'14 hottest celebrities with ugliest significant others'
Along with a decision to show Peaches Geldof in her bra and knickers, a few hours
after the same body was found dead.

No comment needed really.

 

[Dogsauce]

People feel sad because they imagine what it would be like for the little ones, what it would have been like for themselves, what it would be like for their own, or for a father to lose his young daughter. All that without actively imagining because it resonates with our most fundamental experiences of love. Isn't that obvious?

Spot on. Think for me it hits a little more than these things usually do from having the sudden loss of a young(ish) friend quite recently, and having witnessed the harshness of family grief and sensing a little of how that feels. A lot of people on this board will know this kind of thing. You don't necessarily need to know the person.

 

[poului]

Hollywoodlife also gave us 'stories' on:

'Celebrities who are aging horribly'
'14 hottest celebrities with ugliest significant others'
Along with a decision to show Peaches Geldof in her bra and knickers, a few hours
after the same body was found dead.

No comment needed really.

The quote isn't from the magazine.

 

[Dogsauce]

I bet the paparazzicunt that stuck a camera in Mick Jagger's face the other week is camped outside the Geldof house.

As well as being hugely insensitive, footage of the outside of celebrity houses is incredibly boring and adds nothing to the story. Wholly unnecessary, I've no idea why it's ever thought of as a good idea. For some reason it makes me disproportionately angry, a common cause of shouting at the telly. Fuck off and leave them alone.

 

[Wilf]

The quote isn't from the magazine.

Yes, I know - I wasn't criticising your post. Just a passing comment on their scumbaggery. Slebs and the media live in a symbiotic relationship, but when it comes down to it they haven't an ounce of genuine loyalty for the person they treat as a commodity.

 

[Cloud]

I'm puzzled a bit by this story. If it was an accidental drug death and yes everyone wise up, if parents are likely the world over to have a bottle of wine on a weekend then of course they may also use drugs instead. I'm afraid having children increases stress so those few glasses of wine could be seen as a little self medication. I just wonder how god damn strong the drugs are these celebrities take. I've known a fair few drug takers from the chairman to the lowest baghead, people who would inject with a puddle, corkscrew and a turkey baster or fasten a feed bag of coke to their faces from Friday to Sunday yet surprisingly very few have actually died, far less than my motorcycle buddies.

Looking at that twitter photo it looks like it could be suicide. You would think that having had that done to yourself you would not wish it on your own children but from my own experience it is almost as if its a parenting skill that you feel an unresistable subconscious need to copy the actions of your parents. It could even be genetic. I hated my father for his suicide attempts and swore never would I let that happen but still did the same.

Who knows could be anything but the words celebrity and death tend to be synonymous with drugs unfortunately.

Very sad for the family. Jeez what a tragic tale.

 

[brogdale]

Yes, I know - I wasn't criticising your post. Just a passing comment on their scumbaggery. Slebs and the media live in a symbiotic relationship, but when it comes down to it they haven't an ounce of genuine loyalty for the person they treat as a commodity.

Do any capitalists?

 

[Pickman's model]

Do any capitalists?

not the successful ones.

 

[Pickman's model]

I despair (relatively speaking): a young woman passes and the reaction from the Scum is to show her as a teenager in her knickers. How fucking crass; is that how we are to view 'celebrity death'? Is that how women who die whilst in their prime are to be seen?

all women are teenagers in their knickers to the sun

 

[Wilf]

Do any capitalists?

No, indeed. It's just that events like this illustrate that point very well. Normally, getting to know the details of someone's life generates a degree of empathy in the way you deal with them and the way you talk about them. This just shows when there are other imperatives at work they were never anything other than a commodity. A well rewarded commodity and one that no doubt colluded with the same media, but still.... sorry, I'm well into statements of the obvious here.

 

[Wilf]

This says it better

 

[cantsin]

I just cried all the way to work aftre hearing this on the news. so so sad

did u know her personally or something ?

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm puzzled a bit by this story. If it was an accidental drug death and yes everyone wise up, if parents are likely the world over to have a bottle of wine on a weekend then of course they may also use drugs instead. I'm afraid having children increases stress so those few glasses of wine could be seen as a little self medication. I just wonder how god damn strong the drugs are these celebrities take. I've known a fair few drug takers from the chairman to the lowest baghead, people who would inject with a puddle, corkscrew and a turkey baster or fasten a feed bag of coke to their faces from Friday to Sunday yet surprisingly very few have actually died, far less than my motorcycle buddies.

Looking at that twitter photo it looks like it could be suicide. You would think that having had that done to yourself you would not wish it on your own children but from my own experience it is almost as if its a parenting skill that you feel an unresistable subconscious need to copy the actions of your parents. It could even be genetic. I hated my father for his suicide attempts and swore never would I let that happen but still did the same.

Who knows could be anything but the words celebrity and death tend to be synonymous with drugs unfortunately.

Very sad for the family. Jeez what a tragic tale.

Maybe she just dropped dead. It happens more often than you'd think.

 

[brogdale]

did u know her personally or something ?

Though I'm not keen on media manufactured mass grieving for celebrities, I think that's a tad harsh. It is possible to be very upset to hear of an untimely death of someone you don't personally know.

 

[gabi]

The mails now saying it was a heart attack due to her being an ardent vegetarian

 

[Wilf]

The mails now saying it was a heart attack due to her being an ardent vegetarian

They'll struggle to connect this to benefit scroungers or Romanians, but I don't rule it out.

 

[Dan U]

The mails now saying it was a heart attack due to her being an ardent vegetarian

Jesus Christ.

My step sister was a long term heroin and crack addict, on and off for best part of 20 years. She dropped down dead one day. She was clean at the time but we all thought she was using again as our immediate reaction. She had an anuyrism.

How they can say this before the autopsy is beyond me.

 

[Wilf]

It's the micro level of all this that disgusts me most - the hurried conversations in news rooms, editors sending reporters out to create stories, the desperation, going through the archives, mismatching stories and old pictures. Yuck.

 

[8ball]

The mails now saying it was a heart attack due to her being an ardent vegetarian

Are they maybe mis-remembering last bacon sandwich scare story?

 

[aqua]

Maybe she just dropped dead. It happens more often than you'd think.

yep, a friend of mine at work's 25 year old niece died at the end of last year from a sudden heart attack with no previous issues at all. Very sad but not unheard of

 

[cantsin]

Though I'm not keen on media manufactured mass grieving for celebrities, I think that's a tad harsh. It is possible to be very upset to hear of an untimely death of someone you don't personally know.

anything is possible, its just hard (for me to) see how this unfortunate ( and sad, considering her mum etc ) death could provoke that reaction in anyone that didn't know her personally - a stranger who meant something spiritually, politically, socially , maybe I can see it, even a pop star or a writer or something who's 'art' you connected with in a particular way/at a particular stage in your life maybe ....there are many scenarios I can imagine provoking that reaction, but this one is hard to figure out. Am not even being particularly judgemental, it's the interweb/the 21st century, anything is possible....I watched Extreme Couponing with the kids on Sunday for the lolz.....just a bit surprised / raising a quizzical eyebrow etc.

 

[Orang Utan]

anything is possible, its just hard (for me to) see how this unfortunate death could provoke that reaction in anyone that didn't know her personally - a stranger who meant something spiritually, politically, socially , maybe I can see it, even a pop star or a writer or something who's 'art' you connected with in a particular way/at a particular stage in your life maybe ....there are many scenarios I can imagine provoking that reaction, but this one is hard to figure out. Am not even being particularly judgemental, it's the interweb/the 21st century, anything is possible....I watched Extreme Couponing with the kids on Sunday for the lolz.....just a bit surprised / raising a quizzical eyebrow etc.

Celebrities are like neighbours these days. People see them on telly and in the newspapers so often that they feel like they part of your community. So of course people feel sad when one dies, esp if they are young and leave behind grieving children

 

[Pickman's model]

anything is possible, its just hard (for me to) see how this unfortunate death could provoke that reaction in anyone that didn't know her personally - a stranger who meant something spiritually, politically, socially , maybe I can see it, even a pop star or a writer or something who's 'art' you connected with in a particular way/at a particular stage in your life maybe ....there are many scenarios I can imagine provoking that reaction, but this one is hard to figure out. Am not even being particularly judgemental, it's the interweb/the 21st century, anything is possible....I watched Extreme Couponing with the kids on Sunday for the lolz.....just a bit surprised / raising a quizzical eyebrow etc.

the world's gone mad

 

[Pickman's model]

Celebrities are like neighbours these days.

that being the case why is there so much fuss? http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/30/how-well-know-your-neighbours

 

[treelover]

....I watched Extreme Couponing with the kids on Sunday for the lolz.....just a bit surprised / raising a quizzical eyebrow etc.

There used to be a magazine called Competitors Journal, tips, strategies, etc, for people who entered lots of comps, say on the side of cereal packets, etc, its inconceivable that a reality tv show could have been made about it, we live in bizarre times.

 

[Pickman's model]

There used to be a magazine called Competitors Journal, tips, strategies, etc, for people who entered lots of comps, say on the side of cereal packets, etc, its inconceivable that a reality tv show could have been made about it, we live in bizarre times.

were you a subscriber?

 

[brogdale]

anything is possible, its just hard (for me to) see how this unfortunate ( and sad, considering her mum etc ) death could provoke that reaction in anyone that didn't know her personally - a stranger who meant something spiritually, politically, socially , maybe I can see it, even a pop star or a writer or something who's 'art' you connected with in a particular way/at a particular stage in your life maybe ....there are many scenarios I can imagine provoking that reaction, but this one is hard to figure out. Am not even being particularly judgemental, it's the interweb/the 21st century, anything is possible....I watched Extreme Couponing with the kids on Sunday for the lolz.....just a bit surprised / raising a quizzical eyebrow etc.

Yep, but it just sounded a little harsh; perhaps unintentionally so?