Personally I wasn't a fan of Amy but I don't think her addictions should earn her scorn now she's dead. Let's face it, she was only part of mainstream music because she was a drug-addled wreck, and that's a larger indictment of our society, the media, and the romanticism of drug culture more than anything else. If people saw addiction as a serious illness as opposed to a crime or a taboo then there would be no morbid fascination over the culture, which only endangers more people for entertainment. And that's what it was all about. Morbid fascination and entertainment. Her life had basically become some twisted reality show, and now the season's over I'd imagine it will be another person's turn.