R.I.P. Tom Petty

Tom Petty was dead, alive and then dead again over the course of about a day.
At the risk of being premature:
R.I.P. :bow:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture...death-so-wrong

A long and varied career, if it is indeed over that's our loss

https://youtu.be/nvlTJrNJ5lA

He had apparently remarked that this 40th tour was the last for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I do not think he expected this as the proximate cause of his truthfulness.

Rest In Peace Tom and gracious thanks for the awesome music.

This one's a heartbreaker:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...erdose-w515472

https://youtu.be/fFnOfpIJL0M

https://youtu.be/1lWJXDG2i0A

and just because it's my favourite:

https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

Medicines are no joke, I never needed them but one time I did and they insisted I took them, it was absolutily harrowing I could barely walk, I felt like having drunk a bottle of wodka but without the fun, I could collapse any time without warning. I just had enough of that and just stopped taking them, was a good decision, it's better to just suffer the pain

RIP

You might note in the last clip there are two self-medicating performers who have passed.
Self-medicating with that stuff is a tight-rope that shouldn't be walked by a patient.
"Just enough" and you feel fine; masking your injuries...and any new damage caused by performing under meds.
But it takes "just a bump up" to get the same affect over time. Eventually, it will kill you.

That self-medicating has become normalized under the urging of pharma companies is really criminal.

Guys, you had this thread when Petty died last year.

Why don't we centralize RIP posting, in an RIP thread?

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...837-RIP-Thread
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...php?153175-RIP
@Beskar

Quote:

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Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny

You might note in the last clip there are two self-medicating performers who have passed.
Self-medicating with that stuff is a tight-rope that shouldn't be walked by a patient.
"Just enough" and you feel fine; masking your injuries...and any new damage caused by performing under meds.
But it takes "just a bump up" to get the same affect over time. Eventually, it will kill you.

That self-medicating has become normalized under the urging of pharma companies is really criminal.

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Just had enough as in screw this, that stuff wrecked me it was horrible, I felt utterly helpless I could barely walk. Maybe unwise from me but I just stopped taking them. I knew that I was going to be in pain but it was worth it. Started using heroin instead, excellent painkiller but with risks of it's own it didn't get me in trouble I never got addicted to it