“The ceremony ended with her father, Mitch Winehouse\u2019s words \u201cGoodnight my angel, sleep tight.\u201d<\/a> I got tears in my eyes.<\/p>\nI didn’t particularly know much about Amy Winehouse other than a song or two I hear on the radio. But the thing is there is a mother and father out there who just lost their child. It doesn’t matter who that person was, what they did, what choices they made – they loved her. Once, years ago, they held a baby in their arms with joy and love, excited to find out what the future would hold, hopeful for everything their child would grow to be, looking forward to a lifetime with her. Now she’s dead, gone forever. They are grieving.<\/p>\n
Amy’s death was not unexpected for anyone, and the choices she made were sad and unfortunate. She had an addiction, a problem she didn’t overcome. But she was not a mass murderer, she was not a horrible person. She had the same problem that millions of other people in this world have; she could have been your sister, your cousin, your daughter.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how anyone can think about someone’s death and not feel touched somehow, not feel their own mortality and that of their loved ones. What is wrong with this world that some people can shrug, can look at a human life like a piece of garbage.<\/p>\n
Above all else I want to teach Kate a sense of not just morality, but of empathy and compassion. Death is never simple, and it always makes a mark on someone’s heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The other day when Amy Winehouse died it was all over Facebook and one comment on someone’s post I read said something to the effect of, “Good riddance, another piece of trash gone.” I didn’t respond (I have no interest in starting an argument with a stranger on Facebook), but it’s bothered me ever since. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[564,69],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}