Monday, July 25, 2011

A Communal Dirty Secret

As most of us are aware Amy Winehouse recently passed. That means many people are making comments about it, as we all know that since she's a celebrity it means we get to comment on every aspect of her life, which also means her death (is anybody else's sarcasm meter going off? It should be). The most common one you hear is "well, we should have seen this coming". We say that a lot, don't we? He's been sick for a while, she was fat, zie had a history of drug abuse. We do it all the fucking time.

Ever wonder why? Probably because we want to be able to blame it on something. In our heart of hearts, most of us are absolutely terrified of dying. We want to be able to blame it on something, to say that we could see this coming from a mile away and, in our case, can dodge death. If only we do everything right we won't die.

If only we could do everything right.

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