I’ve been trying to hold my peace on this but you know whats tragic here….Farrah Fawcett was a real icon and genuinely worthy role model for younger generations to follow. Taking real, difficult, acting roles, after she made her name, sufficient to get nominations for award after award and seldom if ever falling back on ‘just’ her considerable natural gifts.

A woman who at 50 was still possessed of enough of those gifts, through simply taking good care of herself, to not only do Playboy but sell 4 million copies of it and a woman who faced cancer twice with stoic courage, dignity and even humour. She represented so much that is positive in the human condition.

…and her passing was overshadowed by a singer, whilst legendary in his youth, who turned himself into what any objective commentry would have to describe as nigh on a living freak show. A man who’s detachment from the reality the rest of us inhabit was manifest from the choices he made and who finally lacked the responsibility or capacity to safely take medication on his own leading to a pitifully stupid end.

Yet the webservers of the world were crashed by Michael Jacksons self-destructive end and not Fawcetts tragic loss of her long fight. In my humble opinion there is something very, very wrong with the value structures of many in this world.

Same thing when Sir Edmund Hillary died …one of the most admired and accomplished figures of the twentieth century…i think there was a small column in one of the papers about four pages in…yet a bloody B grade actor in the name of Heath Ledger dies the same week from a substance overdose in New York hotel room… and the media and the world go into a frenzy for weeks