Originally Posted by highthief

I have no medical training, yet I know that swallowing a bunch of powerful medications in random combination is probably a pretty bad idea. I would assume that most people understand that.

People die stupidly every day - via the Heath Ledger method, by not wearing a seatbelt, by drinking and driving, by not wearing a life vest, by driving their snowmobile across the not-quite-frozen lake, by changing lanes without signalling, by walking along the train tracks listening to an I-Pod at full volume, and many other methods.

Their fate was in their own hands - cancer didn't take them, a bomb didn't fall on them, a gang land shootout didn't take them, they didn't get pulled into a war they never asked for. I have genuine sympathy for people who find themselves in those sorts of situations.

All the people in the first examples, including Ledger, died because they failed to follow basic common sense.