Addiction treatment requires willing participation, does it not? Seems Cory dropped the ball somewhere.

I sneer at your self-imposed social insecurities. Perhaps it wasn't mentioned on your 18th birthday, but you are now allowed to make decisions for yourself. In fact, you're legally required to do so. Expectations become internalized in adulthood. Nobody's going to send you to your room for talking to strangers or not…

Lena Dunham is truly an inspiration to frumpy, dowdy women everywhere that paradoxically desire attractive sexual partners. May she forever represent the romantic double standard for women!

Women are unbelievable. She miss-carries, and the first thing she thinks is "Hey, now that I've lost all this weight, now would be a great time to try on a new dress!"

Yeah, so tough. As tough as the tough guy that signed up to be a security guard. I don't have sympathy for people volunteering to be heroes. There's a cost to being a hero. If you're not willing to pay the price, get a desk job.

Maybe she is an atheist and that was her lunch in the bag.

Maybe it's because men aren't the rapists women presume them to be, as you just implied. Perhaps men don't realize you paranoid ladies are constantly anxious about being physically attacked or whatever it is you are so irrationally frightened about. That's because we aren't thinking about it. Like you fear.

Is that Gordon Gekko?

Actually, Cory's the ass. I would't dream of putting my family and friends through 20 years of emotional torment. Apparently he felt that was acceptable.

Yes, after 18 years of on again off again addiction and relapse, I'm sure recovery was right around the corner. I'm sure there was some persuasive argument he had not yet heard or some fancy new rehab method he had yet to try. I'm sure his friends and family had yet to fully explain their love for him and their desire…

A comment thread on a random blog is the last place an emotional fragile person should spend their time.

How do you know I haven't experienced this? How do you know I wasn't lied to by somebody I my bent over backwards for and sacrificed for to help, only for my good intensions and "empathy" to be thrown back in my face with lies and deceit? How do you know someone close to me didn't voluntarily spiral down an abyss…

Oh and as for the real person comment, that only applies of you ACTUALLY knew him. Because if you hadn't, for all you know, he may have been a pedophile. So unless anyone personally knew this person, I would suggest the emotional outpouring stems from people's impression of Cory's character on Glee, which is laughable.
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Well, let's see. I have more empathy for Cory than Cory had for himself. Cory apparently didn't care enough about himself to save himself. Nevermind he had all the support and knowledge necessary to do so. In the end, he engaged in dangerous behavior, understanding what the consequences would be.
And as I mentioned…

Oh, go place a teddy bear at an impromptu memorial and organize a candlelight vigil, you fountain of anonymous, misplaced grief. Your postmodern emotional attachment to television characters should embarrass you.

Joan Collins is still alive? And hanging out with John Boehner??

Yeah. Super heartbreaking Cory was too stupid to put the needle down. But I guess that's what happens when you trust yourself to administer proper doses of lethal substances directly into your bloodstream without medical training.

Yeah. Apparently he choked on his own puke and everyone's really sad about it like it wasn't inevitable or predictable. He's been portrayed as a victim, like a child with terminal leukemia, rather than the junkie he was.

Camden

Awesome. Love it. Baseball parks are unique in ways that other sports arena don't seem to be. Love how many of these I recognized. I hope to someday see a game in every park.