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posted July 14, 2001 09:12 PM            

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Yes! I admit it; I also started the topic regarding what happened to Jeff Buckley, cuz I didn't know how he died. Now that I'm exploring Nick Drake a bit, I find myself asking the same thing - I know he was around in the early 70's and died around that time as well...very young. Is it possible to ask again, without going into graphic detail, what happened to Nick?

Again, not obsessing on death here, just curious - seems there are so many brilliant young musicians who die fairly early on in life/career. Sad.
Anyone??

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posted July 14, 2001 10:03 PM            

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babe, i believe he died of a drug overdose. but im not 100% sure. sleeping pills...something like that.

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posted July 15, 2001 01:51 PM            

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After recording the album "Pink Moon" Drake went through a rather bad period of time. He had moved home with his family and was depressed over the lack of response to his music. From friends accounts, he was a rather sensitive and introverted person to begin with, and he was extremely uncomfortable performing live. Sadly, it was this tendency toward extreme shyness that really prevented people from becoming more aware of his music. During the rather isolated time he was spending at home, he took an accidental overdose of Anti-Depressants. And of course, once he was gone, more and more people began to recognize and appreciate his fantastic musical talents. Kind of ironic. I think the strangest thing is that he somehow predicted the pattern his life would take in the song "Fruit Tree", about an artist nobody notices while alive, but who is revered after his death. I wonder how he knew? It is actually a rather interesting if somewhat disturbing story.

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posted July 15, 2001 02:19 PM         

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I do know that it was his mother who found him gone in his bedroom. It just seems like such a sad ending to an already sad existence. His poor mother too, knowing that her son was struggling with his own demons then to find him accidently overdosed in her house. How do you live with that?
If there is anything good that came out of it it's that we at least have his music with us today. Also, we have artists like Duncan who help to keep Nick Drake's music/spirit alive among others.

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posted July 15, 2001 06:40 PM            

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now i have a question. and i swear im not being sarcastic or crass or mean.

how do you overdoese accidently on anything. 1 good, 2 better, 30 bad. or is my logic too simple?

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posted July 16, 2001 12:04 AM            

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It's possible. If you are already under the influence of substances, it is possible for your mind to play tricks on you. Take a few mind altering pills and pretty soon you can't remember your name, where you live, or even how many of those little harmless looking things you took. It's like when you are out drinking socially and you have a few drinks, and the waitress clears away the empty glasses, and pretty soon you can't quite keep track of how many you've had because you feel so warm and fuzzy and kind of disoriented. So what the heck, you have another, and maybe another. It just takes more alcohol to kill you, and fewer pills. Makes a scary sort of sense, and it's why you need to really control any drug intake carefully. Accidental overdoses are possible. Unfortunately, they happen all of the time.

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posted July 16, 2001 01:09 AM            

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Thanks for the info, everyone. As a health care professional, it's true that accidental overdoses occur quite frequently with prescriptions, and in different ways. Perhaps the person does just take too many. Or what might be a dose that doesn't adversely affect one person might kill the next the person sitting next to him. Drugs are hard to predict. Then there's the lethal combo - mixing drugs with or without alcohol. Some people get all wired on something like methamphetamine and turn around and pop a few Valium and die like River Phoenix. It's a balancing act on a tight rope - one false move either way and you can take that irretrievable step that causes your plunge toward death. Sad. But thanks for the info guys.
Shari.

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posted July 17, 2001 07:11 PM         

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alright, what i've read is that nick drake was on some sort of antidepressant where more than one or two can be lethal, and he mistakingly took two of those instead of two sleeping pills.

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