She managed to be in newspapers all her life making headlines for wrong reasons, little we knew that headlines of her death would spark a controversy, so deep that it divided us all on issues of morale and ideals. Saturday 4pm twitter had become scene of some drama. News had been broken Amy Winehouse's death, some thought it was joke, some were shocked and some were sad but everyone was divided.Not entirely by cause of her death, but in justifying their feeling towards death. A talent was lost that afternoon but a debate was found, which lingers our minds for a while. Do we feel sorry for Amy Winehouse or just ignore her self inflicted tragedy to a massacre of innocent youth a day before? Twitterati and social networks were on war, with powerful statements on both sides defending their feelings.how could we defend feeling of sadness to death and why shouldn’t we feel sorry for a death, even though person was on path of self destruction?
We do feel sorry for what happened in Norway, feel more than sorry, anger takes over sympathy of lost lives and condone equally death of lost talent. Death in whichever form to whoever person, is sad as its lost of life. Even if person who lived it didn’t value it and threw it right on its face. As death is a loss, not just of life but of relation, of love, of talent and of a personality. Amy Winehouse had been a gold mine for gossip papers, with her addiction and masochistic life, with her death she managed to stir up emotions within people. Suddenly morals sprung on and there was unfollow and block of people who expressed sadness to loss of a rare talent. The critics said why were we forgetting all those who lost lives in Norway and I fail to understand how would feeling sorry for death of someone closeby mean that you aren’t condoning the deaths at riots. Some people were more affected by Amy Winehouse death than that of Norway, because of their relation to her with her music irrespective of her character or addiction in personal life. For some it was death of a young talent with exceptional voice who could have created more music and riveted them. As much shocking and flabbergasting was the Norway incident in Friday, Amy Winehouse’s death or even her life was irrespective to it. Only thing that connected them was timing, one of ever springing surprise of nature and destiny. If her death had been a week later, would all these critics still grab throats of those who condone her death?
A death can only generate one emotion, one of sadness, one of loss, in some extreme cases relief, but never hatred. Even worse is slandering those who feel sad at someones death. it is fact to remember time fades everything, in weeks all this controversy would have been forgotten so would Amy Winehouse or Norway deaths, but the emotions or morals won’t. And it is not wrong to express a personal sadness over a death of person you feel connected to those over innocent who were killed. As death cant be prioritized or segregated, its death loss of life. Amy Winehouse unknowingly did give some relief to some and a lesson to lots by her death. After all, the phone hacking scandal was pushed to 4th and 5th pages and Mudroch’s can breathe for while. Even though editors of dailies were torn to dilemma about their cover story, a human cannot discriminate death or feeling of sadness over a death.
