Music and fame aside looking at the purely on the basis she's a human being i think it was sad that she had so many fans and entourage types and yet thought she was so alone and no one seemed to have her back or help her through her problems.



I know addiction and depression are things you have to get through yourself but you really need love and support to do that, if only the media had an ounce of decency and let her memory and those close to her just be.

I'd agree on most of that.



I think that there is legitimacy in reporting her problems in this context – how it's done is an entirely different matter.



On the basis of what I've read, I think I might be the only person in Christendom who doesn't have any tracks by her.

I don't. Never been much of a fan, though she was obviously a very talented singer. I could stand her earlier stuff, but that awful, (at the time) ubiquitous thing from The Bodyguard turned me off her completely.

Another dirty junkie who ruined his life with drugs?

In a moving tribute, Sony has raised the prices on Whitney Houston records.

And burgers, apparently.

And ice cream.

It's only business.



Sentiment is for schmucks.

It was trying to squeeze a turd burger out that was the death of him.

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Tastefull little event that'll be for sure

You're definitely not.

How long before her personal physician goes on trial for manslaughter then?