Anna Nicole Smith

What a tragic life! Having lived for only 39yrs she seems to have packed a great deal into it (read all that on Wikipedia for yourselves, or in any of the newspaper articles), but what a terribly sad end to her life.

According to the news last night Anna Nicole Smith slipped quietly out of the media gaze last year when her 20 something son died of a suspected drugs overdose. What made that episode even more incredible was that she had given birth to her daughter only 3 days prior to this happening.

Having seen her son die, having fought legal battle after legal battle it is quite possible that she was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder & post natal disorder. Both of which I have witnessed and I can assure you can lead to severe depression & anxiety.

Due to various issues in her life she was estranged from her parents, so there wasn't even any parental support to turn too.

The above allegation (suspicion) that she committed suicide only goes to deepen the possibility that her bizarre, complex and often turbulant life finally caught up with her.

Obviously I didn't know her, but any loss of life in this manner is incredibly sad and points to a huge failure in those commissioned to protect her. That said, when someone decides to end it all they generally will decieve people around them in order to appear (on the surface at least) in charge of their faculties.

My heart goes out to her young daughter and trust that her guardian(s) remaining parent will protect her from what I suspect will be a rather turbulant life for her too. The more people turn her mother in to a tragic, Marilyn Monroe type figure, the more conspiracy theories will abound, the more speculation, fascination & ultimately pressure will potentially be placed on the shoulders of that child as she grows.

With someone like this, with such a fascinating (if not macabre) story you are guaranteed that Hollywood will pick over the rights to some damned film.

RIP

 

Actually, sorry to say YOUR comments tell me more about the state of society than the media coverage!

An indepth understanding of humanity is built on caring about everyone. I agree that perhaps it is futile of us to consider a "celebrity" with such interest, especially when you consider the hundreds of people being killed every day in various suicide bombs, attacks, battles etc.

If you wanted the media to pay as much attention to the average human being dying from suicide, illness, old age, accident or whatever then our daily digest would be the roll call of thousands (if not 10's of thousands).

The reality is that we (society) has an interest in a few people who stand out, who are in some form celebrity. Now as far as I was concerned Anna Nicole Smith was a tragic figure who appeared from time to time on the News in relation to legal battles claiming a share of her late husbands Billion dollar estate.

Other than that I struggle to remember any films I have seen with her in them, I've never seen her on a talk show, I genuinely felt that she had dropped out of the limelight a long time ago. My wife had to remind me about her sons death (something she fleetingly mentioned to me 3 or 4 months ago).

But, irrespective of that, regardless of your judgement of her worthiness I still wouldn't have described her in such a cold, calous and vicious manner - "the drug addict whore".

That's societies judgement is it? No wonder she felt the need to end it all if that how she was going to go down in history.

In order to be concerned with society in general, you have to include everyone. There is no opt out clause I'm afraid. The mere fact that a thread exists on Assembler and that we are discussing her seems to suggest to me that she was more than just a "drug addict whore". When we stop caring about people regardless of how much or how little money they may have then that's when you have to start being really concerned about society & the world at large. Everyone deserves a modicum of respect.

 

Yeah usually when I hear about a star like her dying I think they brought it on themselves....but for some reason I do feel sorry for her even tho she was a complete media whore. She already has a son who now has lost a brother and a mother and will probably grow up in some kind of media Big Brother atmosphere. Hopefully someone will step in and make sure he can keep his nose clean or else it's just going to keep spawning tragedies.

 

I feel really sorry for the babby. I hope who ever gets gardienship of the babby will take her far far far away from hollywood and the news. Hell even take her to a boarding school in a remote part of france in hopes the child can have a normal life and not grow **** up over this.

 

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Look under side-effects lol

But no seriously my condolences to the family and that poor poor baby. RIP

 

To add insult to injury, I heard news that her last moments alive were 'filmed' (presumably) by someone close to her.

That footage has now been sold to the highest bidder.

My wish to the person who felt it necessary to sell those images: "I hope you get whatever you deserve from profiting at the moment of someone elses most intimate and sorrowful moments. I trust you can live happily with yourself in the knowledge that one day there is every likelihood that the footage you sold well be spread across the globe via YouTube so that one day her young daughter can stumble across that sad moment whether she is old enough to compute what happened to her mother or not. Forget the scar left in her life, you are doing her the service of showing her that moment. Having seen my own father die in front of me with my own eyes, I can assure you that you will have provided a legacy, a nightmare for that young girl to relive and have forced upon her in moments or cruelty. I genuinely hope you can live with yourself and spend every single penny doing charitable work for those suffering from depression, addiction and fostering for parentless children (as it is not as yet even legally defined who her father is!) Anything less would be disgusting. It is clear that your last moments will not be filmed and I am sure your family is pleased about that. Enjoy the money!"

 

It is sad anyone would take their own life. Life is so short to begin with. Add to this sadness that someone is greedy enough to film it and sale it is horrible Although, the extreme people who do this in society I believe have the average person wondering why? Teh one I feel the sadess for is her daughter. It will be tough for her when she gets older being her child with the legacy she was left.

 

She lived good... but her last year was made out of pain. Tragic, very tragic.
R.I.P. Anna. I wish you have some fun with your son and Marilyn there...

 

Just to point out, there is no indication that she commited suicide. I could see why people would get that idea (I did initially), but reading any of the current news sites would indicate otherwise.

 

I have little sympathy for such celebrities. And the world we live in is cold, calous, and vicious. Right now there are thousands of people that want to kill you and me and don't even know us. Sorry but I find the threats to us in our world are far more pressing than the death of some celebrity. I think it's rather insulting to the US troops deployed in such dangerous areas that the focus shifts off the world's biggest problem to the death of some celebrity. Now again, I could understand taking some time if officials in government died, but not some "playmate" or "actress".

Obviously, as a person she deserves some respect. But I don't respect this image that society is obcessed with and how they are all drooling over getting details of her death. Infact I find it extremely disturbing how lately the news is constantly about someone's death and how they like to poke and prod every detail.

There's just more important issues to deal with than to induldge in gossiping over celebritys.

 

While I can't deny that you raise some very interesting points in your post, I really don't think this is the right thread to do it in, especially since no one in this thread has singled out America as being the sole victim of terrorism or made any zealous remarks about the Iraqi conflict (it isn't a war). With respect, we do have some soap-box political threads that would be a better place to argue this thing out.

I vote for thread closure on this one, before it turns into a flame war!

 

If you read the thread above mine you can see why I made my remarks - however, feel free to close the discussion. Either that or I shall just delete it myself. My post was actually a response to what I feel is a very crucial point raised by one other member.

 

I'm not a moderator! Don't worry and I hope you didn't take offence, I just felt it was a bit too much for this thread. I'm a Brit too and share many of your concerns.

 

No offence taken - just realised that perhaps my early Saturday morning rant might cause others offense when it was meant as a heads up! A lot of anti-American press, plus lots of American paranoid press about those who dislike America at the moment. I just feel that it's generally untrue.

 

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I don't hate celebrities. I think some of them have worked very hard and a few just got lucky.

I do hate how society treats them as "Gods" and the media is always centered around what they do. Seriously, if every celeb was a baby, CNN would cover it for weeks when Sylvester Stallone finally learned how to use the potty and talk about it for weeks.

But I can live with that. The main people I despise are people like Paris Hilton and other morons who think "Chicken of the Sea" (Tuna) is made from Chickens who hang around on beaches. And these morons get constant attention and have loads of money to waste. Would one of them getting killed spark sympathy from me? Maybe. I'm not anti-life but I'm not pro idiocy, either. I guess it depends on the circumstances.

 

After the whole "who is the father" situation, I hope Howard K. Stern keeps baby Dannie Lynn. She is, after all, all that he has left.

 

no comments on dead ex-playboy hookers. I wonder how much her estate is worth, all that hard-earned cash and all

 

I'm sure it was both back-breaking and hard on the knees.

 

Well, the DNA results show Larry Birkhead, not Howard K. Stern, is the father.
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