Heath Ledger Autopsy Inconclusive, According to M.E.

someone should update the "memorial" pics,

on the late news it's quite large with the flag of Australia taped to the wall. Not JFK jr. mountainous but who knows?

I love reading Gothamist, but I can't believe the disconnect between the fine tone of the stories and the crummy, adolescent tone of the comments. If you hate what Gothamist writes about, sign off!

RIP Heath Ledger, gifted and respected actor.

I would say that our Police Commish said this evening:"All the prescription drugs were in the bottles and accounted for" the rolled up $bill was also free of any drug (NYPD). So He may have had

a medical condition.

I think his funeral is at Frank Campbell funeral

home on Madison Avenue & 83rd(?) street.

lachincha i don't think those dopes have enough money to travel overseas.

rocknrope commenting about things that happen in my city isn't a diversion. I'm the real deal unlike most transplants who are on here.

People need to get a fucking life already.

The "god hates fags" people are planning to picket his funeral. First soldiers killed in Iraq and now Heath Ledger? No one is safe from this particularly warped strand of homophobia.

Sorry, e.d., but I don't think it's fair to say that "most of us" in NYC have gone farther than smoking crack, even at the wildly experimental age of 20-21. If you're hanging with a crowd of crack smokers, that's too bad for you, but I can't subscribe to the miserable vision of a city filled solely with crack addicts. It's not the norm, at least, not amongst functioning individuals with careers and goals, even at 20 years old. I feel really sorry for you, if that's truly your perspective. Invest in new friends and hobbies, and you might be more optimistic.

RIP, Heath. Any death is sad.

Constant diversion? Like commenting on a blog about New York several times a day?

Every year, 10 million children die before their fifth birthday, nearly all of them from preventable causes.

Each year, more than 500,000 mothers die from complications during child birth.

Do we care?

But one cute actor dies and WOAH NELLY!

Every year, 10 million children die before their fifth birthday, nearly all of them from preventable causes.

Each year, more than 500,000 mothers die from complications during child birth.

Do we care?

But one cute actor dies and WOAH NELLY!

the droog, you could just read BBC and the Guardian and give up on American news altogether instead of complaining about it. They have been reporting regularly on more important global events (not to say that a celebrity dying is a non-story, but in perspective you get my point). You complaining isn't going to change the US' media at large's interests.

Peace to Mr. Ledger and his family.

Big story? Only to fanboys or fangirls who have screwed up priorities. It's not a big story. It's a death which happens to people in New York every day. This is only a big story to people who need constant diversion from their lives.

if you wanna read about it just skip it!

Censure is not a solution.

Here are some facts about drug residue on currency bills, in both the US and UK. Bottom line, at least one of the bills in YOUR wallet will test positive for drug residue.

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a big story? a lot of interest in it? um, yeah, because the media says it's a big story and then proceeds to generate interest.

heath ledger passes away yesterday (rip), the same day a report is published that 5.4 million people have perished in the Congo in the last ten years as a result of war, disease, malnutrition, etc. big story? a lot of interest? uh, no, of course not. the media was focusing on heath ledger.

I'm not so sure it's the drugs killing celebrities, as much as it is the constant media hounding relating celebrity drug use. It's all the Dr. Phils, Perez Hilton's etc., telling people they 'need help' that creates this culture of secrecy about getting wasted, which isn't healthy. Sure, a certain amount of people who use drugs will go overboard, and a percentage of those people will end up dead. However, this fails to account for all the people who use drugs, and don't die young. Seriously? That Amy Winehouse video is amateur hour as far as drug binges go. Be honest NYC, most of us have gone way, way more over the edge than that, especially when we were 20-21. The difference being that we didn't have cameras, pap's and sellout friends filming us and following us around, reinforcing the idea that 'YOU HAVE A DRUG PROBLEM'. Same thing with Ledger. If people weren't so weird about using drugs, he would have known you never mix benzo's and dope. Until we get off this nonsensical 20C. model of 'addiction is a disease', and start educating, informing people and accepting drug use as part of life, not much will change. Addiction isn't a disease. Drugs and drinking are a normal part of the human condition, and they always have been. OD's are mistakes, due to impaired judgment, like drunk driving.

I didn't realize that Heath Ledger had so many fans. But I guess an untimely death really wins people over.

Really though, I don't see how this is so "sad." Unfortunate? Yes. Sad? Not really. I guess I mean to say, no more sad than the other untimely deaths & overdoes that probably occur every single day in this city alone.

You all got it wrong!

First Brad Renfro ... and then Mr Brokeman Mountain. This is an obvious case of gay sympathetic suicide.

#13, I actually rather write about things like Wesley Autrey jumping into the subway tracks to save someone. But this is a big story and there's a lot interest in it.

this behavior is disgusting to me.

I wonder when a celebrity dies does everyone at the GOTHAMIST office go "YES! MONEY IN THE BANK BABY!" and do a dance of joy? It probably was the same when 9/11 happened. Everyone in the world was like "NO!" and everyone in the News Biz and Halliburton and Flag Factories were like "Hell Yeah! I'm bying me a ferrari with my patriotic flag money! High Five!"

ugh, stupid server errors.

still very sad.

on an unrelated note, the slideshow looks like slideshowpro.

still very sad.

on an unrelated note, the slideshow looks like slideshowpro.

Drug dependency by celebrities continues to be an epidemic. Like athletes, celebrities are surrounded by adoring masses, fawning handlers and agents and publicists who fail to see their clients' weaknesses. Like adolescents, they feel indestructible.

Ledger's death was not "accidental." He mixed sleeping pills with Xanax, Valium and probably cocaine or heroin. He was pointing a loaded gun at himself but was too sick to realize that pulling the trigger would have a predictable effect. There are at least two other celebs who seem to be walking the same path as Mr. Ledger. One wonders how Amy Winehouse's family, agents, publicists and physicians can not be convinced, at this point, that she will meet anything like the same end as Heath Ledger.

Like Ledger, Winehouse has seemingly endless talent.

And like Ledger, there is an almost childlike naivite about her. I suspect, unless someone intervenes, we'll be reading the same story about her pretty soon. Despite their youth, throw enough drugs and alcohol at them and you'll eventually stop breathing or your heart will eventually stop beating. And, notice I'm not even saying anything about Ms. Lohan: perhaps a bit less talented than Ledger and Winehouse, but destined for the same end, I fear.

No, sounds like heroin actually. Blow doesn't usually come in glassines.

oops, sounds like they found coke on the scene. why did someone leave Fritos (or is that oriental snack mix)?

oops, sounds like they found coke on the scene. why did someone leave Fritos (or is that oriental snack mix)?

He also apparently had pneumonia. If you have pneumonia and take sleeping pills, you can easily die accidently.

Enough already.

There's something deranged about a person who leaves flowers for a celebrity they never met.

is that slideshow a custom flash app, or are you guys using something open source?

more stories on heath ledger please