Amy Winehouse is found dead.

[demondude]

I don't understand why people find they need to be vitriolic. She's dead. The amount of hate I've read, especially on facebook, is bizarre. I'm not lauding her at all, never have and never will, but why? It's better for a dead person to be perhaps undeservedly remembered positively than to be hated to such an extent.

It's for exactly the reason that MILF displayed. It's because they get made into some kind of errorless god. The hate stems, yes, from dislike to the person in the first place. But it is then enhanced tenfold by people who take extreme offence to the slating of the person for the primary reason that they are deceased and thus, apparently, deserve more respect.

If somebody wants to hold her as a role-model then so be it. She was not a horrendous criminal or a mass murderer, she was a drug-addled woman whos' crippling addictions led to her own demise. It is far more reprehensible when killers such as the kids from Columbine or Raoul Moat are glamorised and subsequently idolised. That's where the problem lies, not in a singer who harmed nobody but herself.