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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 7:48 pm
Dolphin, the various reports are all over the place. Every media outlet is leapfrogging the others to try to get a new and updated guess online first. LOL Its Heath's family that is saying he did not commit suicide and that he had pneumonia. Its the authorities that are saying he took sleeping pills. At the time I read that he was in cardiac arrest, now they seem to be saying that he had already passed but the time paramedics arrived. I guess they will all just keep guessing until the coroner examines him tomorrow.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Thank you for your body of work Mr. Ledger. Rest in peace and peace to your loved ones.
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-21-2006
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 7:51 pm
Rissa, it is the report with the family's comments I was trying to find. I haven't ran across one yet. That is why I asked. Thank you for getting back to me.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 7:52 pm
What I just read was that the pills were not scattered, and that he was found on the floor at the foot of the bed. It's so hard to tell in these cases especially so early.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 8:11 pm
From TMZ.com TMZ has been contacted by a rep from Heath's family. The cops told the family Heath's death was accidental and there is no evidence to support the buzz that he may have committed suicide. They are particularly distraught over media reports that he may have taken his own life. The family says he was not that kind of person. As we just reported, Heath was ill with pneumonia when he died.
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-21-2006
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 8:56 pm
Thanks Rissa!
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:11 pm
Just showed the story and some interviews on the local news. A media circus outside the building. His role as the Joker looked very dark; I sometimes wonder if these deep roles get inside an actors head and cause problems.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:40 pm
Ledger told The New York Times in a November interview that he "stressed out a little too much" during the Dylan film and had trouble sleeping while portraying the Joker, whom he called a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy." "Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger told the newspaper. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going." He said he took two Ambien pills, which worked for only an hour, the paper said.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:48 pm
too bad his doctor didnt give him something better than ambien for sleep, that stuff only put me to sleep for an hour or 2 at a time also.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 10:45 pm
I am in shock. This is so sad especially as he was so YOUNG... and had a little baby. Sigh. What a tragedy, and for his family to have to deal with misinformation about a suicide on top of it... simply horrible.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 11:05 pm
Mame, since the press was on it so quickly, I had hoped his family had been contacted before it hit the airwaves. It seems, that wasn't the case.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 11:13 pm
Insider and ET covered this and will tomorrow.. they showed him as the Joker, disturbing images, but then a subsequent set of pictures that was ore disturbing, posing with a noose around his neck, etc. And they showed clips from his last interview with them that didn't look too good. Very sad.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 11:21 pm
My thing is. is how are you going to tell if it was an accidental overdose or an actual suicide. Your tox screen is going to show that you have stuff in your system. It may be termed an accidental overdose or even a suicide and we won't ever know the truth. Or maybe they think the amount will show the difference between an accident and not accident. IDK...just seems so unlikely to actually be 100% sure that it is one or the other... Sometimes the people who commit suicide are the least likely ones...it's rare, but ya know...it happens
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 11:36 pm
Or, as his family said, he had pneumonia. It could have been a combination of the meds.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 11:39 pm
I completely forgot that he was taking other meds...
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 7:41 am
Beckie, I think they will be able to tell quite easily. Someone trying to sleep will have an amount of drug in his system equal to the prescribed dose or perhaps even double if he was desperate to get past some insomnia. Someone trying to commit suicide will have a level of drugs in his system much higher then the prescribed dose. I don't know anyone whose doctor said 'take one pill before bedtime' who would try to kill himself by taking TWO instead of one. They would take a LOT more and the blood results will show that.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 7:44 am
I still feel a lil stunned. Not that I was a huge Heath fan but I'm still like wow. Really goes to show that tomorrow isn't promissed to anyone.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 7:52 am
Dr. Drew was talking about the potential of a drug cocktail, that even a few different perscription drugs in small doses interact and cause cardiac arrest. They are having the autopsy today--we'll find out. Michelle Williams and little Matilda are heading back to the States this morning from Sweden, where she was filming a movie.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 8:00 am
I said the exact same thing yesterday Mocha. You never know how much time you'll have. It's all very sad.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 8:11 am
CNN says that Actor Heath Ledger's autopsy was inconclusive and more tests are needed, the New York medical examiner's office says. An autopsy Wednesday morning on actor Heath Ledger was inconclusive, and a cause-of-death determination will take about 10 days, a medical examiner's spokeswoman said.
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-21-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 9:18 am
We keep having small reminders that each day is a gift. Each day is a gift you have with yourself and the greater gift you have with others. We have lost so many people that constently remind us that life is to fragile to be taken for granted. Princess Di, Steve Irwin, now Heath Ledger for examples. I pray you all receive great love, great health and many blessed years. Hugs...
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 9:38 am
Well said, Mocha.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 9:55 am

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 9:56 am
I think it's a real possibility that the cause of death will never be know for sure.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 7:34 pm
Actually they said on CNN that a call was placed to Mary-Kate Olsen by the housekeeper. Wish I would've been listening more closely. I'll see if I can find anything to back that up on the internet.
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