just came home from the cinema, saw on the news that whitney houston has passed away...although they didn't say how..RIP..

Either drug use, or complications from past drug use.

It's sad, sure, but that's what happens when you do drugs .

that's a pretty judgmental thing to say dude..you don't know that she od'd...

Wow. RIP to another great figure

It's not judgmental...she had a history of drug abuse. She was 49 years old, and wasn't horribly out of shape. If there was some sort of foul play involved, we'd probably know.

Either way, I never said that she overdosed. She could have done that, or died from complications of past drug abuse (far more likely). Drugs do all sorts of nasty things to the body which can negatively impact life over the long-term.

May she know peace and healing on her new journey aswell as be given the weapons early in life to protect her from addictions in all there forms.

Dead indeed.

it's been announced on every single television news network, it's probably true lol...

So far CNN says she passed.

For the record, the denial report is from Sept. 13th. Either someone is from the future, or that's an old story.

Yep, confirmed pretty much everywhere.

BBC and Associated Press are both reporting her death. Those aren't networks that would post a story if it wasn't true.

that's probably because the woman is dead

Rather shocked at this news; not what I'd expected to hear.


I can't help feeling that's jumping to conclusions somewhat and seems a little out of place. No cause of death has been reported yet as far as I know.

Read my second post. She was 48, and didn't appear to be suffering from overweight-related health problems. Like I said, I'm not saying that she overdosed, but past can result in bad future health problems...and that's not even mentioning the possibility of health issues from current drug use (not OD related).

Wow, that's sad. I'm looking for a video that she sang one of her songs on a Navy ship, and it was one of the most hair raising performances I've ever seen her do.
Man, many of the comments on a lot of news sites are uncalled for....expected....but still.
Wow. I'm just sad.

Saddness .

I'd say jumping to conclusions would be 'Lol I bet that idiot OD'D on some crack lulz'. While not inconcievable, I do feel Xrayman is right about the 'complications from past drug use' part. The moment you do any form of drug you will have done SOME sort of irreversable damage to your body, the more you do, the worse the damage. I'd like to imagine after her infamy for drug use and rocky life in the past years, she'd gone clean, but the truth is people relapse. But I'm hoping she died of past complications over an OD, because otherwise people will crack the same jokes people made about Amy Winehouse. Granted, in the best of all possible worlds she would die peacefully. But between the choice of her dying of complications or ODing, ODing would only incite more cracks about her.

is it sad im confused who she even is ?

I'd rather just wait and see: it could've been unrelated illness, accident or various other causes, we just don't know. I suppose I do fear a repeat of some of the unpleasantness that followed Amy Winehouse's death: though I wasn't a fan of either, the news was still very sad and many of the comments were uncalled for.

For the record, not all drugs cause irreversible damage, but that's another matter (and no, I'm not advocating them, just to be clear.)

I'm not really sure if I agree with you on the latter part. Alcohol and tobacco, both legal drugs, can be fine in moderation. However, even light use of them causes (albeit miniscule) harm to the body. Inhaling smoke into your lungs is never a good thing, and even a drink solely on the weekend will do a tad bit of damage to your liver.

It was especially unfortunate in Winehouse's case that it was really her death that caused a spike in her music sales. Many people, myself included, weren't even familiar with her work before her death. Of course everybody's interest peaked after her death, and I'm not ashamed to say that I really do appreciate her music. It's just unfortunate that it was her death that caused the interest.

Odd, I thought she died a few years ago.

Goes to show you how much I cared or even payed attention to her. What with her past and all. Yup, it's unfortunate but I can't exactly say I feel bad or anything, I mean she's had a history of substance abuse. Yes, she was great...a long time ago. Maybe now she'll find some peace.

I totally agree with these lines in the AP report:

"She had the perfect voice, and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had six appeal but was never overtly sixual, who maintained perfect poise."

...and I never was a really big fan...never bought one of her recordings, but WOW did she ever have a voice, and never acted [censored]ty as part of her image. That is undeniably true.

[edit] You'll have to guess at the [censored] word...how was I to know? Well...OK...

I'm a bit surprised, but not shocked. Kind of like Amy Winehouse, only it went on longer. "Cause of death" doesn't necessarily have to be specifically drug related for there to be causality from decades of abuse.

Not at all. Even after reading a few articles, I still don't know who she is.