Peaches Geldof died due to heroin overdoseMOD NOTE: NO JOKES

Guy:Incognito · 01-05-2014 09:50AM

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

Spoilt, She had a tough life I know, her mother died the same way, but surely you would take a look at those two beautiful little boys and say ''F"ck that, I choose them'' She had the money to get get help, but heroin was more important.

Are all the junkies knocking around dublin city with their children spoiled kids as well? Too much money so they headed off to the big city to be a junkie?

Shanotheslayer · 01-05-2014 09:52AM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Are all the junkies knocking around dublin city with their children spoiled kids as well? Too much money so they headed off to the big city to be a junkie?

Clearly not as they beg for money. Don't think Peaches from floating around America asking for money to fund her drug habit...

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 01-05-2014 09:56AM

farmerjj wrote: »

nice but not bright

Philip Seymour Hoffman didn't come across as someone lacking in intelligence to me.

Addiction is not discriminatory, it can affect anyone. There is no single common denominator. Never will be.

sok2005 · 01-05-2014 09:58AM

I feel duped. Surely attachment parenting includes breastfeeding, how is this possible for a heroin abuser?

We've all had something in our lives, probably lots of things, that could make us turn to something destructive like drugs but not everyone does, no matter what upbringing they had.

This person must feel stupid now:
http://www.parentdish.co.uk/mum/why-peaches-geldof-is-my-parenting-role-model/

fatbhoy · 01-05-2014 10:00AM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

What leads people to take heroin? I've done a few drugs in my time but not a hope I would take it seeing what it does to people. I'm genuinely interested in why people do.

Because it's the nicest drug there is. Nothing comes close.

Pocoyo · 01-05-2014 10:01AM

Ah taken heroin whilst in care of her children....my heart bleeds.

farmerjj · 01-05-2014 10:03AM

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

Philip Seymour Hoffman didn't come across as someone lacking in intelligence to me.

Addiction is not discriminatory, it can affect anyone. There is no single common denominator. Never will be.

One sure way of not getting addicted is not to start,there is enough evidence to say what is good for you and what is not and drugs are not so then I stick by my last comment.

01-05-2014 10:04AM

RustyNut wrote: »

Sorry I completely misread your post, a brain fart on my part. sorry

Removed.

No worries

Dravokivich · 01-05-2014 10:05AM

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

Spoilt, She had a tough life I know, her mother died the same way, but surely you would take a look at those two beautiful little boys and say ''F"ck that, I choose them'' She had the money to get get help, but heroin was more important.

She could have had many issues which would be more difficult to deal with. Nothing is as simple as making up your mind about something. The hard part is in doing it. You make it sound so easy it comes out completely ignorant and rather insulting.

SEPT 23 1989 · 01-05-2014 10:06AM

I can understand Heroin use when you have nothing,facing into a hopeless future but she had everything on a plate

Muise... · 01-05-2014 10:14AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I can understand Heroin use when you have nothing,facing into a hopeless future but she had everything on a plate

Addiction and drug us have far more to do with what's inside a person's head than their circumstances. The two play off each other, definitely, but it's not as simple as hopelessness. We all have, to a certain extent, a death wish, a sense of adventure and a compulsion to carry on doing things that feel good. Some unfortunate people just don't know how to turn off that switch.

mad muffin · 01-05-2014 10:17AM

Duracell Bunny wrote: »

Shut up.

No you shut up. The stupid woman chose drugs over her kids and family. And her little child by her side?! Pure filth! :mad:

sok2005 · 01-05-2014 10:18AM

I don't think i'd feel as resentful if she hadn't played the mother earth card so much.

murpho999 · 01-05-2014 10:23AM

The amount of people here who judge someone whilst know absolutely nothing about her issues is incredible.

Also people don't take heroin just because they have problems or issues.

It's much more complex than that.

01-05-2014 10:28AM

sok2005 wrote: »

I don't think i'd feel as resentful if she hadn't played the mother earth card so much.

I can understand someone not being interested, I can understand someone having sympathy, and I can understand people being confused about the origins of her drug use, but I can't for the life of me understand why an uninvolved observer would be resentful.

I don't think anyone can equate addiction with a lack of parental love, although it often translates into a parent being unable to care. Regardless of how entrenched her addiction, she seems to have functioned well and adored her kids, right up to taking the overdose that killed her.

01-05-2014 10:29AM

fatbhoy wrote: »

Because it's the nicest drug there is. Nothing comes close.

But you can't know that until you try it. More horror than nice stories to base a decision on. The effects of taking it are all around us. Why would someone take the risk?

Tasden · 01-05-2014 10:29AM

Its incredibly sad for everyone who loved her, same as it was before the cause of death was known.

Some very judgmental posters on this thread, we know nothing about the kind of life she had.

Pocoyo · 01-05-2014 10:30AM

murpho999 wrote: »

The amount of people here who judge someone whilst know absolutely nothing about her issues is incredible.

Also people don't take heroin just because they have problems or issues.

It's much more complex than that.

Murph i am all for defending addicts but in my experience when addicts have children and continue to use,It becomes another thing,She knew what happened to her mother she felt that pain she remembered laying beside her mothers dead body yet she gave those same memories and torment to her own child?

People that use only become clean once they reach their breaking point,The shame and guilt becomes to much for them,If taken heroin around her children wasnt her wake up call i dont know what would of been.

murpho999 · 01-05-2014 10:34AM

Pocoyo wrote: »

Murph i am all for defending addicts but in my experience when addicts have children and continue to use,It becomes another thing,She knew what happened to her mother she felt that pain she remembered laying beside her mothers dead body yet she gave those same memories and torment to her own child?

People that use only become clean once they reach their breaking point,The shame and guilt becomes to much for them,If taken heroin around her children wasnt her wake up call i dont know what would of been.

But that's the whole issue when you're addicted to the most addictive drug around.

It can supersede all logical thoughts of family, and work etc.

Unless you're addicted then I don't think we'd fully understand it.

Also, how do you know she didn't decide to end it herself?

Pocoyo · 01-05-2014 10:36AM

murpho999 wrote: »

But that's the whole issue when you're addicted to the most addictive drug around.

It can supersede all logical thoughts of family, and work etc.

Unless you're addicted then I don't think we'd fully understand it.

Also, how do you know she didn't decide to end it herself?

When i say breaking point,i meant the breaking point of her addiction not her life,And if she did chose suicide which i doubt,would she really do it in view of her children,its not likely.

Boombastic · 01-05-2014 10:38AM

who removed the drug paraphernalia from the house?

TireeTerror · 01-05-2014 10:41AM

My boss calls junkies the "salt of the earth" because whenever we chap on their house doors to change their electrical supplier, they always change because they do not care at all. They have kept many crappy sales people in a job when they work the rough council housing estates. So there is an upside to drug abuse.

#THINKPOSITIVE

sok2005 · 01-05-2014 10:41AM

Candie wrote: »

I can understand someone not being interested, I can understand someone having sympathy, and I can understand people being confused about the origins of her drug use, but I can't for the life of me understand why an uninvolved observer would be resentful.

I don't think anyone can equate addiction with a lack of parental love, although it often translates into a parent being unable to care. Regardless of how entrenched her addiction, she seems to have functioned well and adored her kids, right up to taking the overdose that killed her.

Maybe resentful is a harsh word and I'm actually saddened the whole situation really. I read her articles, I have kids almost the one age with hers, I looked up to her, I watched her debate with Katie Hopkins thinking, well done Peaches, you've done it, turned your life around and become a great mother and you are making this trash heap sound like a lunatic. Then to find out she died of a heroin overdose in the presence of her littlest child is horrifying.

All I knew of her life is what she showed the public and I respected her for that, the fact that she put herself and her children in such harms way which resulted in her untimely death is disappointing and i'm sure other mothers who looked up to her will think the same.

01-05-2014 10:45AM

Boombastic wrote: »

who removed the drug paraphernalia from the house?

I wonder will the police investigate this more now .
It could be that, who ever tidied up, did not want that little baby taken away to be checked for heroin addiction.

Poor kids.

upstairs for coffee · 01-05-2014 10:51AM

Probably been posted before -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9huWlXFA1s

Some people seem gleeful that the death wasn't natural causes. Very odd.

Pocoyo · 01-05-2014 10:55AM

Jake1 wrote: »

I wonder will the police investigate this more now .
It could be that, who ever tidied up, did not want that little baby taken away to be checked for heroin addiction.

Poor kids.

Doubt they will investigate, this thread is another example of the mental class system in ireland,If this was a thread was about a heroin addict on welfare who died in front of their children,I dont think we would see one message of support,That hurts me to be honest.

chrissb8 · 01-05-2014 10:56AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

It's always strange when a celebrity dies because although most of us won't have known her personally, you feel like you did from seeing her on TV from time to time. She always seemed genuinely nice and quite down to earth.
Not sure why people always feel the need to tell us they don't care... The point would have been accentuated without a post.
RIP

Because there are bigger things happening in the world. Instead of watching the news for current affairs and things like the economy, world conflicts etc. they are getting 7 page pull outs of someone they barely heard off plus 5 mins dedicated to her on tv. That is why. People post because you know they do care about what they're being told. It's called having an opinion get over it. Personally I think that it is stupid to even have a thread on this. But alas here we are.

Boombastic · 01-05-2014 11:00AM

Pocoyo wrote: »

Doubt they will investigate, this thread is another example of the mental class system in ireland,If this was a thread was about a heroin addict on welfare who died in front of their children,I dont think we would see one message of support,That hurts me to be honest.

I don't think that's true. There have been many threads here about heroin here and a lot of people have sympathy and support for them

Not me though, regardless of their class

rob316 · 01-05-2014 11:04AM

chrissb8 wrote: »

Because there are bigger things happening in the world. Instead of watching the news for current affairs and things like the economy, world conflicts etc. they are getting 7 page pull outs of someone they barely heard off plus 5 mins dedicated to her on tv. That is why. People post because you know they do care about what they're being told. It's called having an opinion get over it. Personally I think that it is stupid to even have a thread on this. But alas here we are.

Spot on, while its a tragic story, it has no effect on my life so I couldn't care less. 99.9% of us will never have even met her.

johnnyvegas22 · 01-05-2014 11:06AM

seriously who cares, waste of space on the papers. selfish person

Peaches Geldof died due to heroin overdose**MOD NOTE: NO JOKES**

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Peaches Geldof died due to heroin overdoseMOD NOTE: NO JOKES