Requiescat in pace.
This is how she should be remembered, beautiful and healthy before she became a ticking time bomb of self destruction.
The fact that in her last days she was little better than the crack whores on the corner three blocks from my house does not negate her talent. The fact that she was an addict does not make her death any less sad, if anything it makes it sadder.
There have already been too many great artists who killed themselves slowly with bottles and needles and crack pipes, new additions to that list will always be tragic.
