Heath Ledger is dead

[Lady Rachel]

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he was such a stud.

RIP.

[cajunmonkey]

Really suprised me.

Watching Batman is gonna be really weird now. : s

[Lady Rachel]

I know.

it took me by suprise too....

but it tends to happen to all of the good ones.

[cajunmonkey]

Dunno how anyone can kill themselves (if that is the case) when they have a 2 year old daughter. :/

[Potter]

Are you kidding me!?!?

[Fatal Rewind]

cajunmonkey said:

Dunno how anyone can kill themselves (if that is the case) when they have a 2 year old daughter. :/

I'm thinking it was accidental or else he wouldn't have had a massage scheduled (people are going to think this is a joke that hadn't heard of this, but seriously...). And I think there's been enough time to have gone through his apartment to have found a suicide note, which they haven't (last I heard).

Real accurate Yahoo details, as per usual, saying he was slated to be Joker in The Dark Knight. Um, he IS the Joker, aren't they in post-production now? Duh.

Anyway, it's a shame, his daughter barely knew him.

[Wickil]

It's so incredibly sad. Just the other day my English teacher was joking about how hot he was in A Knight's Tale as compared to 10 Things I Hate About You, and I was excited to see the new batman movie because I think he's a great actor and...it'd just be so weird now.

It's scary. I never would have thought that he would die so young, and it just makes me think that it could happen to anyone, famous or not.

I can't decide if it would be better or worse if it was an accidental death. I guess that way he wasn't absolutely miserable, but then his life was taken from him and it would be almost like he was murdered. I feel terrible for his daughter, especially because the paparazzi are not going to give her and Michelle the privacy you need to cope with something like this.

[Rube]

I hope it wasnt suicide. I really liked him as an actor

[prototypegtx]

Apparently his funeral will be picketed by the Phelps family.

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Any updates on what really happened? Was it intentional?

[Wickil]

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[browneyedsugar]

I just saw 10 things I hate about you the other day

RIP

[Wickil]

Accidental Pill Overdose Killed Ledger
Wednesday February 6 10:47 AM ET

Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday.

The cause of death was "acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine," spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said in a statement.

The drugs are the generic names for the painkiller OxyContin, the anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom. Hydrocodone is a widely used prescription painkiller.

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Borakove wouldn't say what concentrations of each drug were found in Ledger's blood, or whether one drug played a greater part than another in causing his death.

"What you're looking at here is the cumulative effects of these medications together," she said.

The ruling comes two weeks after the 28-year-old Australian-born actor was found dead in the bed of his rented SoHo apartment. Police found bottles of six types of prescription drugs, including sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication, in his bedroom and bathroom.

Ledger was discovered by his masseuse on Jan. 22 after she arrived for an appointment that afternoon. She entered his bedroom to set up for the massage and found him unresponsive, and proceeded to call Mary-Kate Olsen three times over the next 9 minutes before dialing 911. Ledger had been dead for some time, and police say no foul play occurred.

Ledger, nominated for an Oscar for his role in "Brokeback Mountain," had returned to New York from London days before his death, where he had been filming a $30 million Terry Gilliam film. He said in a November interview that his most recent completed roles in the Batman movie "The Dark Night" and Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There" had taken a toll, saying he couldn't sleep.

"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger told The New York Times. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going." He said he had taken two Ambien pills, which only gave him an hour of sleep.

Ledger's family returned to the actor's hometown of Perth, Australia on Tuesday to prepare for his funeral. Arrangements were private.

In a statement released through Ledger's publicist, Ledger's father, Kim, said Wednesday: "While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath's accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage."