Really? I've just read she's being offered a judges spot on the x factor?

No sympathy from me. She made her bed, now she can lay in it. If someone wants to self abuse then they get what they deserve. I don't care who they are or what the circumstances were that led to it.

So she's on the X factor?

Sympathy for her loved ones but not for her. What a waste. I care less about Whitney Houston dying than starving children across the world. Sad for her family but there are people more deserving of our attention.

She’s left a fantastic legacy of songs and that is all that matters in the end. Her vocals are possible the best that ever graced this earth and many a time I’ve enjoyed dancing to her tunes in a nightclub.

R.I.P Whitney

Terrible addiction that has claimed another victim..

Danced to many of her tunes in my younger days which have evoked some fantastic memories.

RIP Whitney

I do hope that some people here would be able to assure the rest of us that they do not own or have never enjoyed any cultural work by any artist (of any era) who took any form of drug?

After all, they wouldn't want be called hypocrites, would they?

Not a fan but what a sad waste.

That'll mean the bloody Bodyguard will be shown again soon then

It's not right, but it's OK.

If people want to drink too much, smoke too much and take drugs, that's up to them. But when they die because of it, they deserve no sympathy what so ever.

Why is that hypocritical? liking somebody's music/writing/film has nothing to do with a lack of sympathy for a self inflicted death? These are two separate issues that should be treated as such.

It must be tough sitting in your pool crying about how bad your lot is and why you not getting the attention you think you should!! bit like an abused child crying in their bedroom - let's get some perspective here?

I agree, but perhaps its the drinking too much, smoking too much and the drugs too much that produces the artistic output that the rest of us admire and pay money for ?

She's not the first, hell she's at the back of a very long line of musicians who abused their bodies and brains in a lifestyle choice (which then leads to addiction) in order to produce something that the rest of us cannot replicate but instead are willing to purchase and promote and elevate the musician in question to that of hero, then when we've killed them off elevate them further to sainthood, we stand back and admire the "rock and roll lifestyle" and wait until they burn out heroically before condemning them.


On a slightly different tack, 48 years of age is going to be regarded as a good innings for some of the current teen/20 year olds if they continue to believe that alcohol abuse is harmless while an industry who milk them of their cash are oblivious of the dangers and continue to deny them.

See McLaren's very good explanation.

Whitney Houston will love you always, which turns out to be 2012. Maybe the Mayans were right.