localbogan wrote:Namely, if you have someone with diagnosed bipolar disorder who is a known substance abuser you do not let them out of your sight if they are behaving erratically.
Let's leave aside the question of how one is supposed to keep an eye on an erratically behaving adult?
You know, and this is the crux of my entire argument, he had a wife, a pregnant wife at that, a brother who was often on the circuit with him and undoubtedly a good man, I think a living mother and a father, a significant number of very close friends, and all of them deeply emotionally invested in his good health as we all are with our loved ones.
And people on here are arguing that if only some journo had written a forthright story on all the demons he carried, then the weight of due care from all these people who had only his business or professional interests at heart, would have made all the difference and he would be alive today.
It's such an insult to his friends and family, it implies that they just sat around farting about, ineffectual, but by god, if only super-journo was there to save the day, all would be well with the world.
It is such a long long bow, an entirely human bow to try and pull, but it is laughable.
You are assigning some divine gifts of life to the unknown super-journo, and by extension the CEO of the org that sponsored him and the directors of the ASP. Oh if only they had, uhhmmmm, what? Locked him up? Insisted he go to rehab. You know I'm sure the family never thought of that.
It's so naive. It is cripplingly, laughably, pathetically, sweetly but obstinately naive.
Cheers all, hope you are all looking after yourselves and your loved ones, as best you can.