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Diphenhydramine potentiates opiates. If he was on any sort of pain medication, or a legal or illegal opiate/opioid, it could easily have caused respiratory failure. Now that they're saying one to the Olsen twins owned the apartment, coke comes to mind. If he was on coke and took something to help him sleep or come down from the high, he may have taken way too much and gone into respiratory arrest when the coke wore off and the DipH didn't.
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01-22-2008, 06:25 PM | #42 (permalink) |
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Just to resolve the question, The Dark Knight is in post-production, which means that main photography is over. That doesn't necessarily mean they wouldn't want him in front of the camera again--it's quite common to shoot pick-up shots during post. But that obviously won't be an option now. Hopefully they can get a stand-in who does a passable job for any further shots they need. I guess with the makeup, that shouldn't be so hard.
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Dammit.
I liked watching him in movies. Whether an accident or not, he's dead now. How he died makes no difference. Rest in Peace, Mr. Ledger.
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I was shocked about his death too. I've felt for a long time that he was going somewhere, and he actually was. I'll withhold further comments until I know more about what happened to him.
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01-22-2008, 08:41 PM | #50 (permalink) |
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I was playing Call of Duty 4 when I heard someone say that he was dead. I had to check after the game and wow totally unexpected. RIP.
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01-22-2008, 09:06 PM | #52 (permalink) | |
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Or is it teaching the lesson "don't commit suicide"? |
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01-22-2008, 11:39 PM | #53 (permalink) |
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That sucks big time. Most celebrity deaths don't usually shock me but damn, pretty sad.
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01-23-2008, 02:44 AM | #55 (permalink) |
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Well, I had an aunt who was a drug addict all of her life, tried to commit suicide several times and finally succeeded in 2004. Knowing that she was a fucked-up drug addict didn't make her death any easier for all of us to deal with.
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I know it's not a great leap to assume suicide, BUT... the fat lady has not sung! Let's at least ride it out until the autopsy is made public before berating him for being an ass and killing himself. Perhaps the pills were bad. Perhaps he had a reaction to them. *shrug* Perhaps he IS an assclown who took his own life. Let's wait to find out for sure.
edit: With the above posting from Miss Mango. Man I hate those WBC fucks! Does anyone else find it ironic that the first three digits of their zip code are "666"?
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I was at a dinner last night, and this was one of the topics of conversation. Someone said that they would be surprised if Westboro Babtist didn't protest given "Brokeback Mountain". Sometimes it sucks to be right.
He could have had an undiagnosed heart condition, had a stroke (my uncle had one at 28) or any other number of things including allergic reactions, etc. He could have been really jetlagged and accidentally overdosed trying to get some sleep (I know EXACTLY what that's like these days). He could have killed himself. The Coen Brothers could have put a hit on him because he wasn't in "No Blood for Old Men". He could have logged on to TFP, started reading one of my overly long posts, slipped into a coma and stopped breathing. All of those possibilities are just as likely as anything else thrown out there at this point. Once the autopsy's done and released, then we can villify him to make ourselves feel superior. I enjoyed most of his movies, even "10 Things I Hate About You". But he was an actor that I'd never even seen in person. This is sad, especially since he had a little one, but it has no impact on my life.
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in interviews he had said towards the end of his Joker role he was so into the role he had started to get no sleep so he was taking 2-3 Ambien a night and still getting at most 3 hours of sleep. Pills were not strewn about his room as some reports are saying, but prescription and over the counter sleeping pills were found in his room. He was probably still having trouble sleeping and when the 2 or 3 Ambien didn't work, he took a few more and he, sadly, died. That's just my thought though
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How many sleeping pills do you have to take before you question just what the heck you're doing? If it was something else, like an undiagnosed medical condition, I can switch the sympathy switch back on.
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And back on subject: bummer, I really liked a bunch of his movies and was really excited about his version of the Joker. My girlfriend and I just watched him in The Brothers Grimm a couple nights ago, which made it that much creepier when we found out.
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Also, as MSD already pointed out, if he was on some sort of narcotic with an opiate base, it's quite possible that respiratory failure was the cause. All that being said, if he did do it on purpose, he could have at least been a real movie star and overdosed on coke and heroin. geez. |
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Regardless of the cause of death this is indeed sad. He showed signs of turning into a great actor someday. I immediately thought of the line from "A Knight's Tale" (copied from another website)
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01-23-2008, 12:19 PM | #73 (permalink) |
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there are reports now of him having pneumonia. I don't know how reliable TMZ(ugh) is but that's what they are saying. So if he took a few Ambien with his pneumonia he might have had a bad reaction.
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01-23-2008, 06:53 PM | #78 (permalink) |
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Even funnier that photobucket removed it due to TOS violation
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You'd think that if god really hated Heath Ledger for playing a fag in a movie he'd of had him eaten alive by a pair of tigers or something...you know, rather than overdosing in a posh Soho apartment.
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