May he rest in peace, not in scrutiny

When someones passes away, it's time to remember them for what they did best in their lives - the children, spouses and families they left behind and the positive qualities that made them a great person when they were alive. It's time to celebrate their lives.

It is NOT the time to go banging on the tired drum of scandal and selling disturbing footage of that person at a drug party, doped up and out of their mind - TWO YEARS before they died. As if that footage could possibly relate to his death...and if it does, it's absolutely none of our business.

The conduct of Entertainment Television and The Insider is completely unforgivable. How can they exploit this dead man - who provided the world with remarkable work as an actor and was by all accounts a loving human being - in such a demeaning and unethical manner? Why now?

Somewhere in the world, his family is stricken with grief and his baby girl will face a future without her Daddy. They are still trying to cope with the devastation that they lost a vital part of their own lives. The media make me sick to consider myself part of their world...this is not the business I have chosen to dedicate my life to.

Please, let this man rest in peace, not under the microscope of critical America. He and his family deserve that at the very least.


R.I.P. Heath Ledger