Tragic Celebrity Deaths Ruled Accidental
The following article includes references to drug use. Though it may not always seem this way, celebrities are just as mortal as the rest of us. David Giles, for example, wrote in “Postmortal Society” that fame approximates a kind of immortality. “Through media, celebrities replicate themselves to a bewildering degree,” he wrote. “Thousands of images still and moving circulate. Words are spoken and written by and about the celebrity and reproduced in dizzying quantities....