RIP, Brittany Murphy

[Teelie]

You're welcome to have your own definition of chunky, and I'll have mine.

Attitudes like these are why we have so many problems with eating disorders in this country.

I hope you're just arguing for the sake of arguing, and you haven't actually bought into the media's over-sensationalism of eating disorders. Obesity is the big killer in this country, not anorexia/bulimia. You should be concerned about the messages being sent to people who eat too much, not people who eat too little.

How about this? People are either fat or they are skinny. You don't see idealized weight being promoted as healthy. All you see is too thin and too fat. The media is quick to jump on either but slow to acknowledge when someone is actually the weight they should be.

Brittany Murphy was slightly overweight in Clueless. I wouldn't even have called her "chunky" much less fat but others did and then she took the extreme opposite side and became too thin.

Regardless of whether weight gain or loss is a genetic, social, learned or other issue, it's still an issue and people who go too far either way are going to suffer for it.

 

[Data Holmes]

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Report-...?rss=breakingnews&partnerid=imdb&profileid=01

Report: "Large Amounts" of Prescription Drugs Found in Brittany Murphy's Bedroom


The medications included Topamax (an anti-seizure medication also used to prevent migraines), Methylprednisolone (an anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (a depression medication), Klonopin (an anxiety medication), Carbamazepine (which treats diabetic symptoms and bipolarism), Ativan (an anxiety medication), Vicoprofen (a pain reliever), Propranolol (a hypertension medication, used to prevent heart attacks), Biaxin (an antibiotic), Hydrocodone (a pain medication) and vitamins, TMZ reports.

 

[Jetfire]

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Very sad. It is strange she was taking one that is used to prevent heart attacks.

 

[Bisz]

Wow, this is very surprising. I'm very sorry to hear this.

2009 sucks.

 

[John Picard]

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Report-...?rss=breakingnews&partnerid=imdb&profileid=01

Report: "Large Amounts" of Prescription Drugs Found in Brittany Murphy's Bedroom


The medications included Topamax (an anti-seizure medication also used to prevent migraines), Methylprednisolone (an anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (a depression medication), Klonopin (an anxiety medication), Carbamazepine (which treats diabetic symptoms and bipolarism), Ativan (an anxiety medication), Vicoprofen (a pain reliever), Propranolol (a hypertension medication, used to prevent heart attacks), Biaxin (an antibiotic), Hydrocodone (a pain medication) and vitamins, TMZ reports.

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Very sad. It is strange she was taking one that is used to prevent heart attacks.

Well, this is a case of overdosing by way of A) too many prescriptions, and B) a serious recipe for drug interactions. Hydrocodone is nasty, and even my sister-in-law, who is a nurse, couldn't understand why it's still prescribed when I had some a couple of years ago. Apparently, it makes a large percentage of the population nauseous (which it did to me). Klonopin is great stuff for reducing anxiety and thus allowing a person to get a peaceful night's sleep -- it's just that the next morning feels like the after effects of a full night of drinking but without the hangover.

Seems she, like Heath Ledger, were over-medicated.

 

[Yoda]

For all the craziness of Tom Cruise and those wacky scientologists... damn some people are overprescribed. Especially in Tom's little celebrity world, apparently. I mean, you saw the shit that they helped put in Michael Jackson's system, and Brittany's medicine cabinet sounds pretty absurd. Shit, lay off the drugs, eat semi-decently, and get regular exercise people! Tom, sign me up, I'm ready to hop on the spaceship and fight Lord Xenu.

 

[Teelie]

It's another case of too much of something and arguing for too little in the opposition. She probably needed some of those drugs but it's too much. There's a middle ground where you aren't over or under doing it and yet people like Tom Cruise and those who advocate a non-use of drugs are completely missing the point.

Celeberties do definitely get special treatment and anyone who denies it is fooling themselves but the average person would never be given that amount of medication or allowed to stay on it.

Despite all the nay-sayers over her perscription drugs, the official cause of death is still said to be natural causes, not drug related. It's said she had a heart condition too which wasn't medicated but it may turn out that it was the cause of her death, not all the drugs she supposedly was on.

 

[John Picard]

It's another case of too much of something and arguing for too little in the opposition. She probably needed some of those drugs but it's too much. There's a middle ground where you aren't over or under doing it and yet people like Tom Cruise and those who advocate a non-use of drugs are completely missing the point.

Celeberties do definitely get special treatment and anyone who denies it is fooling themselves but the average person would never be given that amount of medication or allowed to stay on it.

Despite all the nay-sayers over her perscription drugs, the official cause of death is still said to be natural causes, not drug related. It's said she had a heart condition too which wasn't medicated but it may turn out that it was the cause of her death, not all the drugs she supposedly was on.

I'm betting that the mini-pharmacy she had was a great contributor. Of all the countries in the world, the elderly in the US are the most over medicated. It is not uncommon for many of them to be constantly ill because all of the medications they're consuming are interacting with each other.

 

[Teelie]

She was 32, hardly elderly, although the elderly are over medicated I doubt in this case it's the reason she died. You can't take a broad assumption and apply it to every case. That's even worse when you take a completely different set of circumstances and try to apply it to a case unrelated. Other than the number of drugs found in her medicine cabinet, we don't know what was found in her system yet.

You can look at my medicine cabinet and find a great many drugs, most of which I only took for a short period of time but never threw out, or rarely use depending on what it is. Assuming because I have a dozen or so drugs in my medicine cabinet and that I must take them all regularly is a flawed assumption.

I'm not going to judge her or anyone else for what's found in their medicine cabinet, what she had in her system is what's important.

 

[John Picard]

She was 32, hardly elderly, although the elderly are over medicated I doubt in this case it's the reason she died. You can't take a broad assumption and apply it to every case. That's even worse when you take a completely different set of circumstances and try to apply it to a case unrelated. Other than the number of drugs found in her medicine cabinet, we don't know what was found in her system yet.

You can look at my medicine cabinet and find a great many drugs, most of which I only took for a short period of time but never threw out, or rarely use depending on what it is. Assuming because I have a dozen or so drugs in my medicine cabinet and that I must take them all regularly is a flawed assumption.

I'm not going to judge her or anyone else for what's found in their medicine cabinet, what she had in her system is what's important.

*SIGH* I was using the elderly as an example -- PLUS, if you would apply a bit of common sense and logic to the situation, why does a 32-year old women need Topamax (an anti-seizure medication also used to prevent migraines), Methylprednisolone (an anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (a depression medication), Klonopin (an anxiety medication), Carbamazepine (which treats diabetic symptoms and bipolarism), Ativan (an anxiety medication), Vicoprofen (a pain reliever), Propranolol (a hypertension medication, used to prevent heart attacks), Biaxin (an antibiotic), Hydrocodone (a pain medication).

Let's see, two types of pain medication (Vicoprofen, Hydrocodone); two types of anti-anxiety medication (Klonopi, Ativan); an anti-depressant (Fluoxetine); an anti-inflammatory (Methylprednisolone); an anti-seizure (Topamax); a hypertension medication (Propranolol); a bipolar medication (Carbamazepine); and an antibiotic (Biaxin). That's 10 prescriptions with two duplicates and one that I can see would be used to counteract the effects of another.

The above is a recipe for disaster and inadvertent drug interactions as well as accidental overdosing (again, a-la Keith Ledger).

 

[Mr. Adventure]

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Report-...?rss=breakingnews&partnerid=imdb&profileid=01

Report: "Large Amounts" of Prescription Drugs Found in Brittany Murphy's Bedroom


The medications included Topamax (an anti-seizure medication also used to prevent migraines), Methylprednisolone (an anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (a depression medication), Klonopin (an anxiety medication), Carbamazepine (which treats diabetic symptoms and bipolarism), Ativan (an anxiety medication), Vicoprofen (a pain reliever), Propranolol (a hypertension medication, used to prevent heart attacks), Biaxin (an antibiotic), Hydrocodone (a pain medication) and vitamins, TMZ reports.

Surely it was the vitamins.

 

[DimesDan]

TMZ is reporting that King of the Hill, 8 Mile, and Clueless star Brittany Murphy died of Cardiac arrest this morning in her home.

No mainstream outlets (Reuters, AP, CNN, etc...) are reporting this yet, but TMZ is usually pretty reliable. Fingers crossed this is them jumping the gun or biting on a hoax, but...

http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/20/brittany-murphy-dies-cardiac-arrest/

I seriously can't be arsed to reas this entire thread, but who the fuck is Britney Murphy and what does it matter if she has died.

If true, my thoughts and prayers go out to her family. 2009 is turning out to be a terrible year to be a celebrity...

Yeah because NO ONE ever dies do they? Christ, people die, get over it

 

[Teelie]

If all you have is being a jerk to contribute to the thread, why bother coming in and making yourself a target?

 

[Trekker4747]

I seriously can't be arsed to reas[sic] this entire thread, but who the fuck is Britney Murphy...

A 32-year-old woman who also happened to be an actress who starred in at least one successful pop-culture-hit and a number of sleeper hits/cult-hits since as well as voiced a character in a popular evening animated sitcom.

and what does it matter if she has died.

Because when a young woman dies, suddenly, at the age of 32 it is sad and we're all human beings.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

TMZ is reporting that King of the Hill, 8 Mile, and Clueless star Brittany Murphy died of Cardiac arrest this morning in her home.

No mainstream outlets (Reuters, AP, CNN, etc...) are reporting this yet, but TMZ is usually pretty reliable. Fingers crossed this is them jumping the gun or biting on a hoax, but...

http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/20/brittany-murphy-dies-cardiac-arrest/

I seriously can't be arsed to reas this entire thread, but who the fuck is Britney Murphy and what does it matter if she has died.

If true, my thoughts and prayers go out to her family. 2009 is turning out to be a terrible year to be a celebrity...

Yeah because NO ONE ever dies do they? Christ, people die, get over it

You can't be "arsed" to read the thread. Why didn't that stop you from commenting on it? If you're not going to bother yourself to read it, why ask questions?

 

[Jetfire]

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Trolling, why else would someone quote the answers to the question and then tell people who are sad about it to get over it.

TMZ is reporting that King of the Hill, 8 Mile, and Clueless star Brittany Murphy died of Cardiac arrest this morning in her home.

No mainstream outlets (Reuters, AP, CNN, etc...) are reporting this yet, but TMZ is usually pretty reliable. Fingers crossed this is them jumping the gun or biting on a hoax, but...

http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/20/brittany-murphy-dies-cardiac-arrest/

I seriously can't be arsed to reas this entire thread, but who the fuck is Britney Murphy and what does it matter if she has died.

If true, my thoughts and prayers go out to her family. 2009 is turning out to be a terrible year to be a celebrity...

Yeah because NO ONE ever dies do they? Christ, people die, get over it

 

[John Picard]

I want it on record that I believe the coroner's report will state that the medications were either a contributing factor or she accidentally overdosed.

 

[ancientone51]

^I am forced to agree with this sad possibility.

I do, however, want to mention that we have the names but not the DATES on the medications. Some of those may be older, even by just a few months, that are no longer being used.

Hubby's multiple meds include bunches of stuff he no longer takes that we have not disposed of. I'd hate to think what people would say about possible mixes on things that are still viable but no in use.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Yeah because NO ONE ever dies do they? Christ, people die, get over it

Gosh, you're my hero.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I want it on record that I believe the coroner's report will state that the medications were either a contributing factor or she accidentally overdosed.

Seems quite likely, especially if she was sick to begin with.