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Tom Petty, the singer and guitarist whose influential music spanned four decades, died in October from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications involving opioids, his family announced Friday.
Source: Washington Post
Previously: US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66
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Tom Petty Died of Accidental Opioid Overdose, Family Reveals
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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:52AM (7 children)
And who's to say it was accidental.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @06:35AM (3 children)
Because that's what all the contracts require.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday January 21 2018, @07:30AM (2 children)
More likely, the life insurance companies..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @04:09PM (1 child)
... so that they don't have to pay anything.
The lawyers are the ones saying it was accidental, because of the CONTRACTS with the life insurance companies, etc.
Get it yet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:04PM
Many insurance companies do pay out for suicide. They just don't pay out if it happens within X years.
In the USA seems X = 2 typically.
http://time.com/money/3117698/how-life-insurance-policies-deal-with-suicide/ [time.com]
In my country the standard seems to be 1 year. Seems like it's also 1 year in the UK: https://www.leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk/news/city-high-flyer-planned-his-death-1-998350 [leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk]
Seems in Japan it's two years: http://www.japansubculture.com/killing-yourself-to-make-a-living-in-japan-financial-social-incentives-keep-suicide-rates-high/ [japansubculture.com]
But do check your contracts carefully first before trying to suicide for insurance money. There have been cases where people committed suicide for insurance money but their policy had expired or doesn't pay out in event of a suicide.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @06:02PM (2 children)
Having known quite a large number of a addicts, every last one 'knows'. They just 'know' how much they can handle. The ones who have been doing it for years are the worst offenders too. They just 'know'.
Many have little clue what the meds they are doing actually do. They know the side effects they are after but pay little to no attention to all the other effects.
So a 'heavy weight' like him doing something accidental? Very possible, in fact likely. Usually it happens when they have been off a particular med for a bit and try to go back to whatever they were doing before.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @05:40AM (1 child)
Many have little clue what the meds they are doing actually do
This is what happens when you have puritanical laws that make certain substances illegal.
You lose control of quality.
Janis Joplin shot contaminated dope and died from the heavy metal impurities.
Jazz guitarist Emily Remler had been buying stuff that was stepped on several times and when she got some stuff that was more pure than usual, she used the usual volume and OD'd fatally.
God damn the racist bluenose busybodies who push prohibition.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @09:56PM
Typically their noses are red due to the hypocrisy of alcohol not being a "drug".