It's better to burnout than fade away.

I guess Liz is thinking that her counterparts Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe had pretty good
ideas back in the day when they overdosed, which left them eternally young, thus legends.

Liz, now 76, mixed her prescription pills and booze which left her unable to breath and omitting, the morning of April 6 at 4am, The National Enquirer reports. She was rushed to Cedars-Sinai hospital after waking her assistant and was released later that afternoon.

A close friend told the Enquirer, "Liz was panicking. She really thought she was going to die".

Liz has suffered from a history of drug and alcohol abuse. She has been treated at the Betty Ford clinic twice.

Hang in there Liz, you've made it this far.

We wish her well.

Actor died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

Heath Ledger died of an accidental overose of prescription drugs that included painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday.

"Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine," medical examiner's spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said in a news release.

The drugs are the generic names for the OxyContin painkiller, the anti-anxiety drug Valium, Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom. Hydrocodone is another name for Vicodin.

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Casey Calvert's death has been ruled an accidental overdose by the Washington, D.C., medical examiner's office .

Members of the pop-punk band Hawthorne Heights swore that he had no drugs in his system when he died in his sleep while on their tour bus.

Casey was just 25 and recently married when he was found dead on November 24 before the bands concert. The overdose was caused by the combined effects of opiates, an antidepressant and an anti-anxiety medication.

Those antidepressants are bad news!!

[AP via Mlive.com]