Death in Hollywood

There is something utterly fascinating about the death of someone famous. What is it that lures us into believing single controversy that always seems to surround a celebrities death? Why does it always seem like there is a controversy? Well, not EVERY death, but there certainly are more than not. Bad publicity is good publicity, even in death? I don't get it. Just let them rest in peace. Yet, we can't for some reason. We all talk about how horrible the tabloids are, how they are just trash, untrue gossip, etc. Then we find ourselves reading them anyway, and making opinions judged on what we have read.

For example, River Phoenix died in 1993, on October 30^th of a mass drug overdose. Not only are their controversies surrounding who gave him the drugs, whether it was a close friend of his in a band, or whether it was just a stranger in the bathroom passing out "party favors", people still today, 14 years later, argue over who's fault his death was, his own?, the drug dealer? His friends for not following his every movement? The truth is, no one will ever know exactly what happened that night incident by incident, but River himself, and he has been gone a long time now. I don't think it's fair to blame River's family and friends, nor do I think it's realistic to blame a drug dealer. It's a very sad situation. He was an extremely talented actor, and earth and animal activist. He was taken away way to young.