Voluntary Euthanasia

October 17, 2024 Longrider General News, misanthropy 18

So a pop star dies from being high as a kite on drugs. So what’s new?

Littered with white powder and tin foil, this was said to be the scene inside Liam Payne’s hotel room after the singer fell to his death in Buenos Aires last night.

Payne was found dead by police who say they found the popstar’s medicines including clonazepam – a drug which is used to control epilepsy, involuntary muscle spasms and panic disorders.

The photos were published across the Argentinian media, including major broadsheets today and purport to show Payne’s suite at the Casa Sur hotel in Palermo.

There was a frantic call to 911 from hotel staff about ‘an aggressive man who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol’ who was ‘smashing up his room’ minutes before he died.

Shrugs.

Not everyone sees it as I do, though.

It comes hours after Waissel, a 38-year-old singer-songwriter who auditioned alongside Payne on the 2010 series of X Factor, name-checked Cowell in two statements in which she accused music bosses of focusing on ‘profits rather than people’.

Did Cowell ply this man with drugs? No? Nothing to do with him, then. Even if the industry has a reputation for exploitation, Payne chose to take narcotics. No one forced him. Narcotics abuse is a decision people make. He made that decision and this is the price. The music scene is littered with prior examples of drug use leading to early demise, yet he decided not to take note.

Self inflicted. No sympathy. And, no, it is not Simon Cowell’s fault.

18 Comments

  1. Police are holding “voluntary” interviews of people, under the threat of arrest if they refuse. So the meaning of “voluntary” is already being blurred.

  2. Pop star talent shows have been around for long enough now for everyone to know the score. Last year’s winner has to be buried in order to make way for this year’s three minute hero. Nowadays talented musicians are using the Internet via You Tube and streaming services to get their music out to the public. Talent shows are a short cut to fleeting fame. Substance abuse by people who can’t cope with whatever life throws at them is hardly limited to those who are falling off the end of Cowell’s conveyor belt.

    • Actually I need to correct myself here. One Direction were one of the talent show bands that went on to having a reasonable career. So we can’t use the excuse about having fame snatched away after a brief time in the spotlight.

  3. This guy fell three floors to his death apparently. Not very impressive. During a rooftop chase across London in one of the Mission: Impossible films, Tom Cruise jumped out of an office window about three floors up. Not only did Tom survive the fall, he was up again within a second or two to continue the chase.

  4. It’s all part of the media circus to keep the proles from thinking too hard about the important issue affecting them.

  7. From Wikipedia:
    “Although the claim of a “statistical spike” for the death of musicians at that age has been refuted by scientific research, it remains a common cultural conception that the phenomenon exists, with many celebrities who die at 27 noted for their high-risk lifestyles.”

    Liam Payne outlived the ’27 Club’ by 4 years… but it does suggest that the music industry is a tough place.

    • Less to do with the industry being a tough place than weakness of character. When offered narcotics, they can always say ‘fuck off!’ but they don’t. That’s weakness. When I was in my twenties, I was offered the opportunity to take weed. My response was as above. No one ever offered me anything like that again, nor have I ever needed the crutch that narcotics provide.

      This is another example of Darwin doing his thing.

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