She got what she and more to the point her managers wanted, meteoric rise to fame superceeded by a even greater rise to to infamy. Different folks have different coping mechanisms unfortunately hers was fatally flawed just like the proverbial moth to a flame. I firmly beleive there are people who genuinely find life too cruel to live themselves, an over sensitivity perhaps, a pre-disposition to be honestly dissappointed in the way the world really works which leads to having to find something that enables them to get through it one way or another. Sadly I think if folks cannot genuinely bear up like the rest of us it's because they have not the tools to do so, no fault of their own maybe.
We are all killing ourselves just not in as dramatic a way as Amy was, drink, too many pies, cigarettes, work aholicism, alcoholicism, drugs, fast cars, wet roads & sharp bends it's no different really the sum total will be the same she just cut out all the effort in between..................................................................................
Christ!! Pass me a beer and me fags, order a curry but please lock the knife drawer and hide the keys to me zed !!!!!!