Heath Ledger (and others)

I must confess. One of my guilty pleasures is celebrity gossip. I frequently visit many different websites throughout the day to keep abreast of the daily going ons of hollywood people. Anyway, on one of these websites, , there was THIS post:



Taking a moment from their grieving, Heather Ledger's family addressed Australian television on Wednesday.

His dad, Kim, said:

"We, Heath's family, confirm, the very tragic, untimely and accidental passing of our dearly loved son, brother and doting father of Matilda. He was found peacefully asleep in his New York apartment by his housekeeper at 3:30 p.m. U.S. time.

We would like to thank our friends and everyone around the world for their well wishes and kind thoughts at this time. Heath has touched so many people on so many different levels during his short life but few had the pleasure of truly knowing him.

He was a down to earth, generous, kind-hearted, life-loving and selfless individual who was extremely inspirational to many. Please now respect our family's need to grieve and come to terms with our loss privately."

[Image via WENN.]

Posted: January 23, 2008 at 4:59 am

Can I tell you how appalled I am?? No matter what choices someone makes in life, no matter if we consider them right or wrong or later in life wish to change those choices, a funeral is a time to grieve. I've done bad things in my life that I sometimes wish I could go back and change, but if one of those things ever led to someone picketing my funeral while my family and children were trying to grieve, I think that I would have to come back and personally haunt those people. I just can't get over the amount of gumption a person has to have to infringe on such a personal and reverent event.

However appalled I am, you better believe that I'm going to continue to follow this story.