Heath Ledger Dead! How can we go on?

I am sorry for his death; however, does it need to occupy fifty percent of the news?

NEW YORK (AP) - Heath Ledger, the talented 28-year-old actor who gravitated toward dark, brooding roles that defied his leading-man looks, was found dead Tuesday in a Manhattan apartment, facedown at the foot of his bed with prescription sleeping pills nearby, police said.

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IMO, it was not a broke back. He died of a blood clot--not pneumonia. Heath had just flown back from London. He probably died from a blood clot in the lung. (Democrats will hold hearings on long flight blood clots. Doctors misdiagnosed the clot in his lung as pneumonia. Democrats will hold hearings on misdiagnosing blood clots in the lung. Democrats will criticize Bush for not caring about the long flight blood clot crisis. They will hold hearings on why Bush does not care about the long flight blood clot crisis. Democrats will hold hearings on the possibility that Bush gave into filthy rich airline owners, who did not want to install a anti-long flight blood clot tread mill for those who are at high risk for long flight blood clots. Democrats will hold hearings on the effectiveness of anti-long flight blood clot tread mills. Who should pay for the anti-long flight blood clot tread mills? Should fliers pay a portion of their ticket price for the anti-long flight blood clot tread mills? Or, should insurance companies pay for the anti-long flight blood clot tread mills? Or, should their insurance company pay a portion and the flier pay a co-pay for the anti-long flight blood clot tread mills with the government picking up the bulk of the cost for the anti-long flight blood clot tread mills?)

Reuters ^ | Jan. 23, 2008 | Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush postponed an event on Wednesday to promote an advertising campaign on preventing prescription drug abuse after actor Heath Ledger's death from a possible drug overdose, the White House said. "We felt it would be better not to hold the event today given the tragedy of yesterday's passing of the beloved actor," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. "We did not want anyone to think we were trying to link into that story in any way," she said. Bush had been scheduled to talk in the morning about the Office of National Drug Control...

God help us, if someone thought that something so important might be misconstrued as insensitive to an actor's death! (Boy, are they going to feel stupid when they find out that it was caused by the long flight blood clot crisis.)