Dancing with the Satan? – The Trauma and Psychological Well being Report

To talk in poor health of the useless is perhaps warranted in sure contexts, significantly in the case of perpetrators of horrific crimes and undue abuse. Nonetheless, at what level does humanity give Grammy-award-winning artists like Amy Winehouse a break? What many instantly assumed to be a drug overdose fueled by a way of life of sex-drugs-rock-and-roll was apparently a demise as a result of “alcohol poisoning.” Nonetheless, formally it’s nonetheless unclear as as to if that is exactly what killed her in the long run. Her co-occurring bulimia was typically missed. Together with her reason for demise not completely clear at first, many individuals and poets alike ran with the character of her passing, typically portray her as simply one other determined member of The 27 Membership – a tragic listing and concrete delusion of exceptionally gifted musicians (and varied celebrities) who died at age 27.

Some interpretations of ‘The 27 Membership’ even go so far as to explain this phenomenon as some kind of absurd “cope with the satan” that icons like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain made, having “offered their soul” for greatness (maybe unbeknownst to them) in trade for an early demise at 27. Others see “the satan” as one’s dependancy to varied substances, a extra believable portrayal maybe. Nonetheless, the next excerpt from poems like Dancing with the Satan by Roger Turner helps articulate this supposed “phenomenon” and cultural tendency to demonize these fighting dependancy and substance abuse.

“The Eternally 27 membership
taking part in within the band
Janis, Jim and Jimi
In hell, oh….ain’t it grand
We thought all of them as angels
However, the reality it rings a bell
They have been dancing with the satan
They usually ended up in hell

Cobain and Amy Winehouse
Oh yeah, they’re down there too
Brian Jones and others
Taking part in laborious rock and the blues
Promote your soul to Devil
The place you go…you don’t select
Should you spend time with the satan
It’s nothing however unhealthy information”

Whereas many proceed to shake their heads at Winehouse’s supposed “drug overdose,” her post-mortem coated within the documentary Post-mortem: The Final Hours of Amy Winehouse revealed no illicit medicine in her system on the time of her demise. Actually, her deadly alcohol poisoning adopted a interval of abstinence whereby her decreased tolerance probably contributed. Nonetheless, in accordance with Dr. Jason Payne-James her post-mortem additionally revealed that if it weren’t for her weakened immune system attributable to her consuming dysfunction that began when she was fifteen, her physique might have survived the alcohol poisoning. The quantity of alcohol she consumed earlier than dying wasn’t unfamiliar territory for Winehouse both frankly. It was the mix of each that turned deadly and never essentially substance abuse alone.

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