Amy Winehouse - Let’s not Turn Tragedy into Cult-Like Trends

PRLog (Press Release)– Jul 26, 2011– To turn Amy Winehouse's death into a "cult mystery" of the "Tragic 27 Club," joining the ranks of other drug-related rockers' deaths including: Janice Joplin, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison, all music legends who died at the age of 27, is to deflect from the importance of young, talented musicians who were plagued by the disease of addiction.

Psychologically speaking, it is not that unusual that people like to divert attention to something else – human angst leads folks to look dodge for what social psychologists often refer to as "causal attribution." Fritz Heider (1958), who is considered the father of Attribution Theory, discussed that people like to make sense out of things – even if the process goes beyond mere sensory input. We human beings like to look for what might be "logical" commonalities, and need to have nice, neat packages to wrap everything together – even turn them into mysterious "death clubs" that distort such talented lives into "Tragic 27 Club."

Here's a theory – creative rockers are immersed in a life of "drugs, sex, and rock 'n roll." Many of these individuals have an alfa romeo addictive disease that is primary, progressive, chronic, and if not treated fatal – but many do not!

Amy Winehouse died in 2011 – Joplin, for example, died in 1970. Should we focus on the reality that these events were 41 years apart? Should we see how different the times were for rockers in the 1960's compared with Winehouse who hit her stride in a completely different century? Should we instead accept that 41 years later people are still dying from the disease of addiction? Should we ask ourselves how many artists died from addiction at ages other then 27? (Did we ever hear of Charlie Parker, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, or Michael Jackson, just to name a few, who were all different ages and died from alcohol and drug related issues?)

Instead, we focus on coincidence of age. You want to look at reality – look at people who start out in a profession quite young, and are pushed and prodded to get hit after hit and tour night after night, and who have the disease of addiction that is enabled by some of those around them. Then the public tries to make sense out of it and turn them into perceived "mysteries of death" – the demonic Thanatos – the Greek embodiment of death – that great unknown that calls to us. Please folks; let's stick to what we really see – alcohol and drugs kill! They kill people of all ages and talents – now there is the take away chrysler from all of this – let's s buick top looking for odd coincidences to turn people's tragic deaths into a "club" instead of a disease that kills, and needs to be understood biologically, psychologically and socially. I truly say this out of almost 34 years of working to understand this horrible disease and treat all of those who fall victim to it with caring and respect.

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