It wasn't heroin from what I know. It was sleeping pills - but nothing has been confirmed so it could be anything... but I seriously doubt it's heroin.

Terrible waste anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKa-aDga1fE

This clearly shows a drug addicted Heath. Death may not be drugs, but yeah.

That sucks, I guess, but every time one of these famous-people death posts comes up, I can't help but not really care much
Like, after I close this I am probably going to completely forget it ever happened.

Its scary, he looks almost like the crow in the movie.

oh well!

I liked the movies A Knight's Tale, and 10 Things I Hate About You, but I never followed the cult of celebrity well enough to have known that he was in those films.

Even (if not especially) celebrities can use drugs poorly. Such a silly way to go.


EDIT: Where the hell does heroin factor into this equation?? All the sources you've posted suggest sleeping pills, and say nothing about heroin.

this is crazy, i JUST started to take a huge interest in heath with the new clips of the upcoming Dark Knight.  when he was first announced for it i said "no way"  but then i saw what he could do and now this...damn

this is clearly an instance of god punishing someone for being sympathetic to homosexuals

edit: seriously though, i was kinda looking forward to seeing how he played the joker in the new batman movie to see whether or not i could write him off completely as a worthless actor. guess that doesn't really matter now, although it'd be pretty damn tragic if it turns out that he WAS, in fact, a very good actor. i've been genuinely indifferent to his performance in everything i've ever seen him in, but that's not exactly a knock on the guy given how much i genuinely dislike actors.

Wow...holy shit, I can't believe this. I mean......I don't know what to say.
FUCK. I'll remember him by watching him in The Dark Knight. ;(

I've never understood why people put so much emotional investment into celebrities. From reading the posts in this topic, it seems like there are people who are genuinely upset about his passing beyond the simple tragedy of young death.

It isn't as if this person was some sort of savior or saint. He was simply an entertainer. It would be more understandable if he was a musician or an artist whose unique perspective and method were forever lost, but he was simply a screen actor. He was notable for performing the plays of others in one of the more base and simple mediums available. So, what I'm seeing here is people grieving over the fact that they won't be able to see his mildly attractive mug on the silver screen anymore, since I can't imagine that he had any sort of particularly profound impact on the "art" of acting.

Eh, people get attatched. I guess it's like having a friend die. Celebrities INVADE OUR LIVES through the medium of film.

I'm genuinely upset because he looked good as the Joker and it's sad he won't be him anymore! People are going to miss the talent as much as they are going to miss the man.

i'm pretty shocked by this news. i kind of liked the guy in all the things i've seen him in, which isn't much really but i thought he might have had some good roles ahead of him.

this is just really surprising. poor guy.

Wow.. this really sucks I was like "wha!!" when msn news popped up...I've seen 10 things I hate about you so many times, it's like part of my childhood!

He was so young too, and his poor daughter.

It's a shame he won't be in the batman movie, I was looking forward to see how he would portray the joker.

RIP Heath

IMDB says that they were in post-production for the dark knight, so I'm assuming that means the movie was done? Unless post-production doesn't mean what I think it means...

I didn't really like the movies I saw him in, but it is sad he died so young

The filming of Dark Knight is completely done.

Yeah, if you checked his earlier interview about the movie, he said the movie was done.
That's the last movie we'll see him in, though.

Man this sucks he could have probably gone on to a lot of big things!

I want to know just what kind of pills were "strewn around him."  This may not be a suicide.

Last thing I read now was that they pills were infact not strewn around as first reported.