warning - grossly disturbing

[prism]

they just said on the news that according to the King County Medical Examiner Lanye had been dead in his apartment for 2 weeks.....2 FUCKING WEEKS.....I think I'm gonna puke again

[ProfessorFrink]

I kinda figured he had been there for a week or two. it strikes me as extremely sad that no one else was around.

[prism]

what I can't understand is how could it take 2 weeks for him to be missed?....had he really isolated himself so much that no one checked on him for 2 weeks?....and the thing is that his family was probably used to his not responding to them for long periods of time....I dunno....it just scares the shit outta me.... it makes me cry even more for him

[Highway23]

urgh...

I was hoping only one week, but deep down I knew it had to be longer.


It's really sad to know that Layne was not only alone when he died, but he just laid there alone for so long. Yes, it was his choice...but it's still so damn sad. ...


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[MsBuannan]

it wasn't unusual for layne to not respond or to disappear for a week or more...I have a friend that spoke to him apparently right before this happened...and he said layne was doing ok...struggling...but doing ok
I think you have to wait a week or two before you can officially do a missing person's report and have the police force themselves into a residence...unless there is reason to believe something is wrong inside the residence
you all know I love layne as much if not more than anyone, so hopefully you know I'm not being insensitive when I ask....why didn't the neighbours...well, smell him?
*shudder*

still so damn sad


"Trying to find the light inside
It's lit but going dim"
Broken Hearted by Ed Vedder

[babarocks]

When the reports first started coming in they kept saying "a body was found in the home of Layne Staley" and because they didn't say it was him, I was thinking "Damn, someone od'd in his apartment, I bet he's gonna have to answer some questions..." and only when the started speculating about whether it was him did I think "Why wouldn't they already know? Has he been sitting there that long?"

Now you've answered that question.

THe isolation and lonliness of it all is really too much. It was obviously too much for him.

Does anyone know abotu his life, about what the source of this pain so great was? Why he hurt so much he needed/chose heroin as an answer?

Cannot find the comfort in this world.

[corduroykate]

sigh [frowm]
i feel so badly for him, someone like him (or anyone really) shouldn't have to have suffered so much you know, it just seems so wrong...

-knowledge is contagious, infect truth-

[13throwcenter]

not insensitive... i was wondering the same thing. from what i have heard/read, the smell of a dead body is horrific.... how could it go so long?

this just falls right in line with the rest of the news i've gotten this weekend... just when something can't get worse, it does.



"My mom likes chocolate and Pearl Jam."~ Asher, 2-9-2002

[MsBuannan]

artists in particular seem to feel things deeply...they seem to suffer more
ernest hemingway once said something to the effect of why did god curse me to be a writer
artists see the world through different eyes than the average person...and sometimes, I guess most the time, that world isn't too pretty

but it is sad indeed for anyone to feel that pain

RIP Layne-the pain is finally gone

[MsBuannan]

how is asher taken the death of the little boy sandi?
how are you and his dad taking it?

it just makes me ill....I can't imagine
:(


RIP Layne-the pain is finally gone

[13throwcenter]

i understand that thing about "artists"... i'm one of sorts myself.
artists deeply absorb what they see/feel/hear and tend to carry the weight of the world in their souls.

asher is.... basically not responding to this thing. he has a tendency to hold the big stuff inside. it's been hard, trying to comprehend this myself, and not project what i think he should be feeling onto him. i've basically just let him lead the way, and he's talked about it very little. i spoke with his teacher this morning... they will have two counselors in his class all day as the boy's younger brother is in Asher's class. i asked her to have one of them speak with him. i'm pretty sure he won't say much- he really just intellectualizes things like this and it shows up in him as forgetting he is still just a kid and wanting to be more adult than he is. this is why i'm concerned about him.

unfortunately, his dad initially rebels against and ultimately dismisses what i think and feel simply because of who i am. had a nice little yelling match with him this morning.... that is why i decided to call his teacher directly. he did call me later to apologize and tell me that he had spoken with the teacher, the principal and his after school caretaker who lives in the neighborhood. too late, damage done.


i'm just relieved that the kid who was arrested is not a client at our agency.
that would be just too much to take.



"My mom likes chocolate and Pearl Jam."~ Asher, 2-9-2002

[low_light]

if he was dead for two weeks, he died on or around the anniversary of kurt cobain am i wrong?

hmm odd.

low


"everything that youve ever done wrong is the reason im driven.. striaght to tears"-cc

[13throwcenter]

sounds about right, david.

ugh.



"My mom likes chocolate and Pearl Jam."~ Asher, 2-9-2002

[MsBuannan]

yeah...if it were two weeks...it very well could have been the same day kurt died
I don't know yet what date they are going to use as the "official" date of death


RIP Layne-the pain is finally gone

[peacefulness]

I've been on this AIC kick for the past two weeks. You know how you just get into listening to a particular band constantly? Pretty much one of those things. That is kinda wierd to me.

2 weeks.... oh man. That makes me so sad and I too am wondering how no one smelled him. I don't think that's insensitive.

~Melanie

"How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside." Girl, Interrupted

[Nona Weisbawm]

2 weeks?? OMG! I had a birthday 2 weeks ago...thats pretty depressing..
(hey highway, sig buddy!)
Just knowing that is really tough....gods man!

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