Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD

Who was judgmental about Tom Petty?  The posts I read were sympathetic, and some (mine) explained how it could happen to me; I lose count of the pills but I don't lose count of the pain; if I accidentally take too many; " sayonara", over and out. 

Unfortunately ... there were two threads on this same topic.  My latest remarks were in response to what hifiman had posted last.  Read the last few entries and you'll see.

Rich

I like the sharing, it puts a human face on things, a human face on the text one reads.

Helps people with perspective. That is, in the final analysis, IMO and IME... fundamentally important to all these threads. It leads to less nasty projected/reactionary behavior.

I agree teo_audio.  Nothing wrong with injecting some life into our hobby site.  One thing we all have in common, we are mortal.

Does anybody here no how many US citizens are killed by medical error in this country every year? You might be surprised to know that in this unhappy statistic, we're NUMBER 1! With more than 250,000 preventable deaths by error per year. Far more than those who OD and die from illicit drugs in the US BTW.

Scientists and sociologists have been tabulating these numbers for decades. There is no doubt about this. If anything, the numbers are underreported due to potential legal liability. The US healthcare system is (by the hard data) far worse than just about any other wealthy country on earth and we have by far and away the most costly care-- but the quality just isn't there and it continues to FALL bearly every year while prices are, by global standards, simply insane and unjustifiable.

Tom Petty was taking a lot of medications-- this made him especially vulnerable to toxic drug interactions.

Even wealthy rock stars aren't safe in a system like ours. And you can take that to the bank.