So he films a video for a depressing song and he’s depressed? I really like Nick Drake, am I depressed and possibly gonna kill myself?? No. Sometimes songs like these are comforting in a weird way. Just let it go, this has NOTHING to do with his death. If this came out and he wasn’t dead, there would be no discussion about depression. It would just be a cool video.

“Just let it go, this has NOTHING to do with his death.”

How would you know? Were you inside Ledger’s head.

Did you perform the autopsy?

This just seems to have more to do with his love of Nick Drake than some kind of “cry for help”. I listen to Nick Drake, and I’m not going through some “dark form of depression”. Plus, Heath Ledger’s death was accidental, so the idea that he was “crying out for help” is a little dubious.

I have come to the conclusion that Heath Ledger was killed by death.

come on, he’s been dead for a while. the death jokes have to begin at some point.

What’s does JFK, Marylin Monroe, Heath Ledger have in common?

They’re all fucking dead.

One thing that wasn’t really noted here is that out of all of Nick Drake’s songs, “Black Eyed Dog” is his perhaps his most blatant foretelling of impending death. Lyrics like: “I’m getting old, and I want to go home….I’m getting old and I don’t want to go”…..it’s just such a mystical song, there’s such a quality of haggard wariness towards life that’s being expressed in it. For an actor like Heath, who is legendary for the way he would immerse himself in the characters he portrayed, I think it’s definitely noteworthy that he self produced a video of “Black-Eyed Dog” just weeks before his death. Dude was ready to GO….

Is that right? Is that so? Dry up, tubbo!

Heath Ledger died of untreated clinical depression. Having had this illness myself it can be a world unto its own once you are in it. Everything looks dark and hopeless and you do gravitate toward people who you know feel like you do, in this case Nick Drake. What would have saved Heath Ledger was a sabatical from his work which as an actor he could easily have arranged in between films. After doing the Joker role it appears he was burned out and probably should have been hospitalized and given the proper psychiatric care. What is so baffling is how someone with so many people around him and enough money to buy the best medical care in the world could have died from something as common as depression. But I guess that’s what happens when you are living in the fast lane and are seen to others as an invincible cash cow.

there deaths are almost the same
i don’t know its all a bit odd to me
but still
Nick Drake
a good person

there deaths are almost the same
i don’t know its all a bit odd to me
but still
Nick Drake
a good person

I love Nick Drake’s work. I love Heath Ledger’s work. I sometimes feel depressed. Am I going to kill myself? Nothing on my aganda.

i agreed with you.