How was Anna Nicole Smith's life "plagued with tragedy" as BBC News?

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has just stated. I have just returned from Rwanda where I met many, many people whose whole families had been wiped out during the 1994 Genocide.. they had NO-ONE... i met women who had been raped by multiple men during 1994 and were now living with Aids, unwanted children or injuries which left them ostracised from their communities.....THAT IS TRAGEDY

Why does the media have to make such sweeping statements? It is sad that she died but the tragedies in her life were self induced [ASIDE FROM HER SON'S DEATH].

She married a guy on his last legs and he unsurprisingly died a year later...how is that a tragedy??? She was in the media spotlight of her own volition and developed a drug/alcohol problem [yet still lived in comfort] .. how is that tragic?... She could have kept a lower profile and attempted to resolve her problems...

It just makes me angry that people in the West [and I am British] feel that we are so hard done by in life....

oh and even if she came from a "poor" background we in the West still do not know what real poverty is.. I saw poverty in parts of Africa [Uganda] and it was on a scale we could not conceive of here in the West!

.. and someone here is making generalisations that I hate her. How logical is that!!!!

Precisely what extensive tragedies do we have here in the UK pray tell??? The UK does not know suffering of that I am certain and this is why I go to countries like Rwanda and Sudan and The Congo!!!

Answer 1

KUDOS!!!! I agree totally. We (westerners) complain soooo much, and realistically we are a lazy, dissatisfied, and spoiled civilization. Tragedy was Katrina, the tsunami, world trade center disaster. I've seen tragedy in Iraq, and it makes our lttle complaints here seem like a day at disneyland.
I do love my country, and would'nt want to be any other place to live, but this is true.

Answer 2

Anna Nicole is a tragedy because once again a woman has been allowed to die because we fail to recognize how destructive a constant barrage of press can be on sensitive personalities, and in sensitive situations.

Found with only legal drugs in her system, how can this be? And weren't a few surprised. I can barely get my doctor to prescribe a pain killer, let alone so many legal drugs that combined they can be lethal. Did I hear you say, Elvis? But I am jumping the gun here, let's wait for the autopsy's full conclusion.

She is fighting a battle in court to get money from a marriage, that may have only lasted a year and some, but still a marriage. And she has every right to inherit a small fortune without being harassed by a family, that for some reason doesn't remember who made it in the first place, and for sure, he knew when he married her that she was going to get a nice sum. And that is what he wanted.

Her only son dies while visiting her in the hospital. Forget overdose, he died. And that was clearly devastating to her. She is pictured with eyes that are swollen from crying about this.

And what's that disease women suffer when having children, Post-partum depression. She has just had a child and her first child passes away? Set aside the haves and the have nots for a moment and remember what it means to lose children. My great-great grandmother told me, "a mother is not supposed to bury her children."

We can argue the extent of devastation in countries that do not have what we have. We can argue that pandemics in these countries are devastating. We can argue many things in comparison to...

But it's called "walking in their shoes." Her shoes, let us know that money and fame are not "all that." As if we have not known this for years. That celebrities can really, honestly be, "spoiled to death." That maybe some of these Drs. and pharmacists, and so-called friends should be held accountable. That women are vulnerable and unpredictable even in the most predictable moments. That maybe instead of berating her, she should have been hospitalized. That women are constantly victimized.

Oh, it truly is a tragedy on a grand scale. Open your eyes and recognize that. And remember, and I repeat a statement made on tv, "there is a baby out there, without it's Mommy."

And that tragedy is the same everywhere.

Answer 3

Of what? using "Candle in the Wind" to portray the existence of Anna Nicole Smith? it incredibly is purely a song. confident ok, it became used considerably around the time of Princess Dianna's loss of life, and Elton John even adjusted the lyrics for her funeral, even yet it incredibly is nevertheless purely a song. It became easily written approximately Marilyn Monroe if we could desire to get technical. that's a probable setting up portrayal of a existence in the spotlight, cut back short by using the pressures of stardom. it could be proper for many human beings, including Anna Nicole Smith.

Answer 4

Anna Nicole was mentally ill since her childhood as evidenced by the chaos that surrounded her entire life. Every turn in the road was another failure - marriage, jobs, relationships, career, etc.
If that is not a tragedy, I don't know what is. It may not be on the scale of some other world tragedies, but it was a tragedy on a personal level.

Answer 5

Good points - the media do love to exaggerate in their efforts to fill those empty pages or minutes of programme. Thus a small fire is an 'inferno', a minor traffic accident causes 'carnage', and a bit of snow becomes a 'blizzard' causing 'chaos' and probably indicating the start of a new Ice Age!

Answer 6

How would you know what sort of personal tragedies she went through, you can only see the public ones and i think having to bury someone who you gave birth to is number one on the hardship lists no matter who you are. You are obviously lucky enough never to have had to dealt with that.

She was also facing a custody battle for her daughter from a guy claiming to be her father.

She grew up poor (yep people in the west die of starvation too) and ended up being a stripper.

I think you go down to your local foster homes and tell the kids that have been beaten, raped and deserted how lucky they are. Get a f**king grip of yourself - it doesn't matter whether you were born in Ethiopia or England you can still have a deprived life and one of the worst things that your life can be deprived of is the love of another human being.

Answer 7

I just cannot believe that anyone is really interested in a gold digging woman who was down right ugly, and was just another 'famous for being famous' person. What a world we live in.

Answer 8

Marriage, divorce, deaths of partners, drink & drugs & early struggles as a waitress & other jobs.

Answer 9

You have made very good points....but none the less...her life was tragic...she lived...she died...but without ever reaching real truth...How do I know that?....Because the fruit of her life revealed that. Might not be as tragic as other lives...but it still is tragic.

Answer 10

theres tragedy and poverty all over the world at various different levels..at local and global levels..you arent in any position to say their tragedy and poverty is greater than hers...all you have to do is go outside your own doorstep...you shouldnt have to go to rwanda to realise about poverty..you should be aware of it in your own country first