You've never heard people make John Belushi jokes? Kurt Cobain jokes? What's the difference between the two? I suspect the difference might just be that those who are bothered by this now are Celtics fans...
Just 2 points:
1. I am the one who pointed out that you didn't live through it and I maintain that fact as determinate of your view on this. At the same time, I agree that the thread should not have been locked and never requested that it should be. In fact, I would enjoy hearing how everyone else had felt about it, as we have been able to do in this thread.
The bottom line (to me) is that Len Bias killed himself by being irresponisble. He wasn't killed by a drunk driver, he didn't have cancer, it wasn't a bizarre accident...had that been the case, this would be different. He was doing something illegal and he overdosed.
2. Now, I hate to sound patronizing, but again you have shown your youth. You didn't live through Belushi, probably not Cobain, and we know not through Bias. If you had, you would never make the comparisons.
a. John Belushi did cocaine and god knows what other crap for YEARS before he ended up on smack and doing himself in during a bender.
b. Kurt Cobain was an admitted heroin addict for a decade. His suicide was only a surprise to anyone who never listened to any of the songs he wrote o ead any inteview he eve gave.
c. Len Bias, by all accounts of friends, family, and people who knew him HAD NEVER TRIED COCAINE BEFORE THAT NIGHT. He was not a "user" by any stretch and it, in fact, was a "bizarre accident" to use your words. That was what was so sad. Many times in aticles and the like I have head his death cited as a major factor in the decline of cocaine use towards the end of the 1980's. Simply because new users weren't as willing to try after hearing that a perfect physical specimen like Len Bias died after 1 use.
Now, again, I did not think the thread should be locked. I do, however, think that it should be locked for you to stop throwing fuel on the fire.
Just kidding.