Philip Seymour Hoffman reportedly found dead

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#29
In the end it's just another dead junkie. Wasted talent. Sad yes, but he knew the risk.
 
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Sad to hear he's been found dead today & at only 46 years young. Thought he was really good at being a bad ass in Mission Impossible III. I pretty much liked all his movies.
 
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bigdaddy said:
Take care of them everyday and you would lose sympathy for drug abusers real quick.
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My best friend's daughter got into heroin after her painkiller prescription ran out after a C-section went bad, and now it's destroying his family. Glad you think of them all as just animals though.
 
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wbailey7 said:
While I can understand where you're coming from, you need to develop some tact.
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Yeah I know it's a Mod, but I agree it is a dick comment. Everybody struggles with something, it's always unfortunate when someone you idolize or identify with meets an untimely demise.
 
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I liked his role as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. He was one of the few actors today that I enjoyed. Sad.
 
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bigdaddy said:
Take care of them everyday and you would lose sympathy for drug abusers real quick.
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How can you "take care" of people without compassion for their disease? You should consider a new line of work.

RIP, Phillip Seymour Hoffman
 
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Sith Vol said:
According to this article, his Part 1 scenes were completed and he had seven days left of filming for Part 2. Good news for Hunger Games fans. And at least we will fully see PSH in one final role. I'm sure they'll just use CGI for whatever small bit is left for Part 2.

Philip Seymour Hoffman: Work on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay?Part 1 Was Substantially Complete | E! Online Mobile
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Probably CGI mixed with some rewrites and find a stand in that looks like him from a distance or from behind.
 
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I also thought he was at least in his 50s. He's like Gandolfini, who I thought was in his 60s. Both of them were those type of guys that always appear older than they really are.
 
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Hobock said:
How can you "take care" of people without compassion for their disease? You should consider a new line of work.

RIP, Phillip Seymour Hoffman
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In medicine, you have two ways you can go about your job. You can care and get in touch with every patient and most times their deaths will hit you no differently than a friend. Or, you can look at them as objectively as you possibly can, not letting feelings or emotions get in the way of your diagnosis and treat them as effectively as possible.

Very rarely is there a true median between the two.

I would wager that a person who works with drug addicts sees it as such, "There are thousands dying of cancer, genetic birth defects, Parkinson's, Huntington's, etc. and these people willingly chose to take drugs at some point. A self inflicted disease does not deserve our treatment when we could be helping so many that had no choice in their affliction."

But that's just me. Generally you don't get cynical just waking up in the morning. It takes years of seeing things to get jaded to the point to have a belief like that, and to say its wrong because he has a different view of yours (one that he feels is valid, and he is right that it is) is less empathetic than his words that it's just another dead junkie.
 
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Hobock said:
How can you "take care" of people without compassion for their disease? You should consider a new line of work.

RIP, Phillip Seymour Hoffman
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New strategy. Addicted folk try to stay out of care because their caretakers don't give a flip anyway.
 
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#49
That's a dude that signed up for a line of work that he hates and now is full of spite. Happens to a lot of people.
 
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Daloth said:
In medicine, you have two ways you can go about your job. You can care and get in touch with every patient and most times their deaths will hit you no differently than a friend. Or, you can look at them as objectively as you possibly can, not letting feelings or emotions get in the way of your diagnosis and treat them as effectively as possible.

Very rarely is there a true median between the two.

I would wager that a person who works with drug addicts sees it as such, "There are thousands dying of cancer, genetic birth defects, Parkinson's, Huntington's, etc. and these people willingly chose to take drugs at some point. A self inflicted disease does not deserve our treatment when we could be helping so many that had no choice in their affliction."

But that's just me. Generally you don't get cynical just waking up in the morning. It takes years of seeing things to get jaded to the point to have a belief like that, and to say its wrong because he has a different view of yours (one that he feels is valid, and he is right that it is) is less empathetic than his words that it's just another dead junkie.
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"You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome. " -- Patch Adams

(Ironically, another film that PSH was terrific in!)
 
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