As probably you have too, I have noticed that those who create and perform some of the most touching and beautuful music are also some of the most fragile and vulnerable people who seem to tragically leave us early, when they are still quite young. I feel for them. I love their music and often don't appreciate enough how much they opened themselves to fully share the beauty of who they were until after they are gone. I wish we could somehow protect them better, but that probable conflict would likely inhibit what they create.
Much like Jim Morrison and Whitney Houston, Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan died by accidental drowning in a bathtub.
The singer had been in London for a recording session when she was found dead on Jan 15, 2018. She died by drowning in a bathtub after drinking alcohol, the Associated Press reported. She was 46.
Please enjoy two of what I think were her best songs... and please, be careful when you take a relaxing bath.
The creativity and sensitivity in them can also be their Achilles heel I’m afraid. Quite often they are looking for perfection in what they create or perform, and are their own biggest critics...this leads them to depression and mental illness...and alcohol and drugs and a downhill spiral which too often ends with their early deaths. Dolores’ story is but one of many sad but all too familiar tragedies.
Sorry, not wasting any sympathy on people having amazing gifts (musically or whatever), who squandered them on self-indulgent behavior. Too may people have Nothing & would treasure some talent & a break or two.
I sympathize. The fact that someone wasted their opportunity doesn't mean they deserved an end like that.
I didn't know Whitney Houston died that way.
Higher than a kite, sunk under, forgot how to lift her head out of the water.
@AnneWimsey I somehow thought she overdosed.
@barjoe yes, but technically drowned because too drugged to lift up her head out of the bathwater.