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    Default 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.

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

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

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    Default Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty

    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.
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    Default Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty

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

    This one's a heartbreaker:

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





    and just because it's my favourite:

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    Default Re: RIP Tom Petty

    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
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    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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    Default Re: RIP Tom Petty

    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
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    Default Re: RIP Tom Petty

    Quote Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny View Post
    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.
    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
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