Nell Carter dies

[BrandonL]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/23/nell.carter.obit/index.html

[Persephone]

Oh, my. How sad.

Nell who?

Never heard of her until this thread.

She will be sorely missed...I guess.

This why diabetics should take better care of themselves; it's also why a good diet and exercise are so important.

[jeny]

I'm glad you said it first Lizzie. I think she was a funny lady, and she was most likely a nice person, and I'm sure her family is devastated. However, a diabetic, who had brain surgery 10 years ago, should have taken better care of herself, SHe weighed at least 300 pounds.

I'm glad you said it first Lizzie. I think she was a funny lady, and she was most likely a nice person, and I'm sure her family is devastated. However, a diabetic, who had brain surgery 10 years ago, should have taken better care of herself, SHe weighed at least 300 pounds.


It's not like I don't feel any sympathy for her or her family, but I also believe that people should be responsible for themselves. I get sick of people acting like it's insensitive to speak the truth.

[jeny]

I'm glad you said it first Lizzie. I think she was a funny lady, and she was most likely a nice person, and I'm sure her family is devastated. However, a diabetic, who had brain surgery 10 years ago, should have taken better care of herself, SHe weighed at least 300 pounds.


It's not like I don't feel any sympathy for her or her family, but I also believe that people should be responsible for themselves. I get sick of people acting like it's insensitive to speak the truth.


I defiantely sympathize too, it's awful to lose a loved one, no matter the circumstances.

I'm glad you said it first Lizzie. I think she was a funny lady, and she was most likely a nice person, and I'm sure her family is devastated. However, a diabetic, who had brain surgery 10 years ago, should have taken better care of herself, SHe weighed at least 300 pounds.


It's not like I don't feel any sympathy for her or her family, but I also believe that people should be responsible for themselves. I get sick of people acting like it's insensitive to speak the truth.


I defiantely sympathize too, it's awful to lose a loved one, no matter the circumstances.


Especially when it's something they could have prevented by taking better care of themselves.

[lgllady]

I'm glad you said it first Lizzie. I think she was a funny lady, and she was most likely a nice person, and I'm sure her family is devastated. However, a diabetic, who had brain surgery 10 years ago, should have taken better care of herself, SHe weighed at least 300 pounds.


Quite likely her family is not devastated. Quite likely her family has been expecting it for years. Even more likely is that they have been begging her to stop her food intake. When someone dies like this, the family is devastated on a daily basis watching someone they love eat themselves to death. It's like watching a drug addict or an alcoholic. Death is the end of daily devastation, not the beginning.

I know for a fact because this is how my mother died. For years we begged her to get help for her eating. She got so fat she couldn't walk and was in a wheelchair. Between the weight and lack of exercise, both legs were amputated. Watching someone eat themselves to death is every bit as wrenching as watching someone shoot up heroin.

That's why I am a diet and exercise fanatic.

[sodaknomad]

She had to have weighed 150 in "Gimme A Break," and I knew she wan't very tall, maybe 5'4". It's a shame that people with her kind of talent would die in their fifties. That's what you get for not taking care of themselves.

[guido]

I'm glad you said it first Lizzie. I think she was a funny lady, and she was most likely a nice person, and I'm sure her family is devastated. However, a diabetic, who had brain surgery 10 years ago, should have taken better care of herself, SHe weighed at least 300 pounds.


It's not like I don't feel any sympathy for her or her family, but I also believe that people should be responsible for themselves. I get sick of people acting like it's insensitive to speak the truth.


The truth should never be insensitive, but sometimes the timing is. There's always a time and a place for certain things to be said.

Neither you, nor I, have any relationship to her or her family, so it shouldn't really matter anyway.

I'm glad you said it first Lizzie. I think she was a funny lady, and she was most likely a nice person, and I'm sure her family is devastated. However, a diabetic, who had brain surgery 10 years ago, should have taken better care of herself, SHe weighed at least 300 pounds.


Quite likely her family is not devastated. Quite likely her family has been expecting it for years. Even more likely is that they have been begging her to stop her food intake. When someone dies like this, the family is devastated on a daily basis watching someone they love eat themselves to death. It's like watching a drug addict or an alcoholic. Death is the end of daily devastation, not the beginning.

I know for a fact because this is how my mother died. For years we begged her to get help for her eating. She got so fat she couldn't walk and was in a wheelchair. Between the weight and lack of exercise, both legs were amputated. Watching someone eat themselves to death is every bit as wrenching as watching someone shoot up heroin.

That's why I am a diet and exercise fanatic.


I have a friend who is the same way, and I hate to watch her. She's miserable because she eats too much, and she eats too much because she's miserable.

I also have a friend who is diabetic, and I don't expect him to live past forty.

[jeny]

My mother in law is diabetic. She smokes and drinks like it's going out of style. She isn't overweight though. SHe weighs about 95 pounds, she hardly eats at all actually.

My mother in law is diabetic. She smokes and drinks like it's going out of style. She isn't overweight though. SHe weighs about 95 pounds, she hardly eats at all actually.


That's healthy.

[jeny]

My mother in law is diabetic. She smokes and drinks like it's going out of style. She isn't overweight though. SHe weighs about 95 pounds, she hardly eats at all actually.

Just something else for her to whine about. I think she likes the diagnosis to be honest.

That's healthy.

My mother in law is diabetic. She smokes and drinks like it's going out of style. She isn't overweight though. SHe weighs about 95 pounds, she hardly eats at all actually.

Just something else for her to whine about. I think she likes the diagnosis to be honest.

That's healthy.



I've met people like that.