Why would anybody require "empathy" for self destructive drug use, unless they were doing the same, much less guilt trip somebody for not "empathizing" with same?
Compassion for suffering does not mean in any way that one should approve of the dysfunctional choices of the sufferer or romanticize them or even excuse them.
Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse. I guess two out of three aint' bad.
As somebody said on another board, celebrities are "tortured" and have "demons." Everybody else are just crackheads, drunks and junkies.
I prefer to remember the pretty, plump teenager with the promising voice, not what she became.