First off, I hope this was able to help you feel better. I know that, sometimes, people get so frustrating that it seems as if the only way to set things right is to start punching every idiot in the nose.

Having said that, I hope that you may come to see that the people who criticized the amount of coverage Whitney's death has received might not have communicated their opinion very well.

It's true that she was a great inspiration and had the gift of a unique, wonderful voice. However, the media has acted as though her death would cause the world's governments to fall, which obviously isn't the case. The coverage has gone far over the top. And, to top it off, the airwaves are now being flooded by baseless speculations about the cause of her death. I can't tell you how much I wanted to scream at the TV each time Nancy Grace claims somebody held Whitney under the water in her bathtub or a "medical expert" lectures about abusing prescription drugs. (True, there were prescription medications in the room, but, for all we know right now, they could have just been a couple of antibiotics to treat a yeast infection, for pity's sake!)

Usually, when somebody brings the way are soldiers are treated into the conversation, it's to show the incredible disparity between the famous and those whose jobs make it possible for the famous to have their lifestyle. Could you imagine what the world would be like if the Taliban still ruled Afghanistan and gave Al Quaeda a safe haven? Would we live in a world where 9/11 was just a warm-up pitch? These people volunteered to do the dangerous stuff all over the world so that we wouldn't have to use a draft to force the general population into doing it. And what's their reward? They're ignored and paid so little that their families qualify for Welfare.

I'm sure the people you're fed up with don't mean we should just burn Whitney's body and flush the ashes down the toilet. I believe they just want the media to take things down a notch or two. They don't have to go on these morbid flights of fancy when the police and medical examiners haven't analyzed the evidence enough to reach a concrete conclusion. And they should back down and let her poor family grieve in peace.

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