jeffw@lemmy.worldM to Pop Culture @lemmy.world · 6 days ago‘Multiple people’ could be charged in Matthew Perry’s overdose deathwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-link‘Multiple people’ could be charged in Matthew Perry’s overdose deathwww.independent.co.ukjeffw@lemmy.worldM to Pop Culture @lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·6 days agoRight, like how people don’t die from driving drunk. It’s absurd that we say that. It’s obviously the effects of the car crash that did it.
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·6 days agoDisagree. That’s a level of pedantry akin to “it wasn’t the fall that killed him, it was the sudden stop.” There wouldn’t have been a sudden stop without the fall. There wouldn’t have been a crash without the drunk driving.
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·6 days agoThere wouldn’t have been a drowning without the ketamine… should we keep listing other examples?
minus-squareGlowstick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoSo if he drowned after drinking in the hot tub, would you say he died from alcohol?
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·6 days agoSure. He didn’t die in a plane crash, he died in a rapid unscheduled disassembly of his organs due to extreme blunt force trauma. He didn’t die due to smoke inhalation, he died due to a lack of oxygen.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 days agoSure. He died not because of death, but because he stopped living. Makes you think.
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days ago“This just in, Lemmy users have discovered the most common cause of death. It may be preventable with one easy step. Is immortality within our grasp? More at 11.”
minus-squaremad_asshatter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoAdvocates of living hate this one, simple trick.
Right, like how people don’t die from driving drunk. It’s absurd that we say that. It’s obviously the effects of the car crash that did it.
Disagree. That’s a level of pedantry akin to “it wasn’t the fall that killed him, it was the sudden stop.”
There wouldn’t have been a sudden stop without the fall.
There wouldn’t have been a crash without the drunk driving.
There wouldn’t have been a drowning without the ketamine… should we keep listing other examples?
So if he drowned after drinking in the hot tub, would you say he died from alcohol?
Alcohols effects yes
Sure.
He didn’t die in a plane crash, he died in a rapid unscheduled disassembly of his organs due to extreme blunt force trauma.
He didn’t die due to smoke inhalation, he died due to a lack of oxygen.
Sure.
He died not because of death, but because he stopped living.
Makes you think.
“This just in, Lemmy users have discovered the most common cause of death. It may be preventable with one easy step. Is immortality within our grasp? More at 11.”
Advocates of living hate this one, simple trick.
Ftfy
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