Sylvester Stallone's son Sage, dead at 36

[Nehkara]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/13/showbi...html?hpt=hp_t2

Sage Stallone, the 36-year-old son of actor Sylvester Stallone, died Friday.

Sage Stallone's attorney, George Braunstein, told Los Angeles TV station KNBC that Sage Stallone was engaged to be married and was working on various film projects at the time of his death.

RIP.

[puckluck2]

Damn, that's terrible. No man should outlive his son. RIP.

[saskflames69]

Wasn't he in Rocky V? Man.. that one sucked. Not because of him though.

Thoughts and prayers with the Stallone family at this time. RIP

[Svensational]

Sad to see.. it happens far too often. I hope Sage is at peace now.

[3 Justin 3]

RIP

Feel bad for the Stallone family, hang in there Sly and co.

[Hack&Lube]

[1stLand]

That's sad. Even being born to a life of privilege is no guarantee you will be able to overcome 'personal demons'.

Too often in Hollywood, we see child stars or kids of stars go down the wrong path.

I have thought alot about this and imagined myself growing up and being in a position where I was given everything in life - cars, houses, vacations to exotic places, not really having to work.

I think that would make me miserable after a while. Living without any challenges, not working towards any goals, not being able to appreciate life's little successes.

Maybe this is what drives alot of these people to abuse drugs and take their own lives.

[Aegypticus]

Is that what happened? Drugs and suicide? I hadn't heard any details yet.

[1stLand]

Originally Posted by Aegypticus

Is that what happened? Drugs and suicide? I hadn't heard any details yet.

overdose of pills

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by 1stLand

That's sad. Even being born to a life of privilege is no guarantee you will be able to overcome 'personal demons'.

Too often in Hollywood, we see child stars or kids of stars go down the wrong path.

I have thought alot about this and imagined myself growing up and being in a position where I was given everything in life - cars, houses, vacations to exotic places, not really having to work.

I think that would make me miserable after a while. Living without any challenges, not working towards any goals, not being able to appreciate life's little successes.

Maybe this is what drives alot of these people to abuse drugs and take their own lives.

I remember reading about Catya Sassoon (a model and the daughter of fashion icon Vidal Sassoon). She died of a cocaine overdose a while back.

She said that growing up, she could have anything and do anything she wanted. There was no joy in anything because everything was so easily attainable. There was so such thing as having to look forward to something and then no real satisfaction in getting it. Then as an adult, she tried to abandon her privilege but found it incredibly frustrating to attain things because she had not developed patience. She said the only thing that could make her happy was drugs.

When you think about it, the thing that keeps us going as humans is desire. If you take that away, I can see why misery would follow.

[Champion]

Desire and goals is so true. It's what makes us get out of bed and work hard. There still are people in this world who have extra drive as if they were thrown a few million in their lap they would still have the same desires.

I think maybe a lot of children of icons like Stallones kid maybe also feel like they can never build a name for themselves and are always in their parents shadows. That could also drive them to depression. Like nothing they do could be good enough.

Stallone has always seemed like a nice and well respected actor. It's to bad this happened to his son.

[Hockey_Ninja]

R.I.P. Very sad for the Stallone family.

[Yanda]

^^^ warning, potential brony.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Yanda

^^^ warning, potential brony.

Good place to bring that one up.

[saskflames69]

Originally Posted by Yanda

^^^ warning, potential brony.

Why do you feel the need to bring that up?

[Erick Estrada]

IMO some of the responsibility has to fall on the parents. There are thousands of rich and famous people that have children and it's not like all their kids take the bad path and die. Take Donald Trump for instance. He brought the kids up in the business, got them educated and lots of other rich kids take advantage or their opportunity rather than waste it. That said it I could see it being pretty tough to have to put in the work for a legitimate career when financially you don't need one. I still wouldn't feel sorry for them as I'd gladly take their place and find my own challenges.

[nik-]

The problem is your own challenges would likely become finding the next massive pile of cocaine to jam your face into.

[Captain_Obvious]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

IMO some of the responsibility has to fall on the parents.

He was 36, not 8.

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

IMO some of the responsibility has to fall on the parents. There are thousands of rich and famous people that have children and it's not like all their kids take the bad path and die. Take Donald Trump for instance. He brought the kids up in the business, got them educated and lots of other rich kids take advantage or their opportunity rather than waste it. That said it I could see it being pretty tough to have to put in the work for a legitimate career when financially you don't need one. I still wouldn't feel sorry for them as I'd gladly take their place and find my own challenges.

And there are thousands of poor people who have children and it's not like all their children take the good path and end up having a drug/problem free life.

Rich or poor, some people make bad decisions
in life and you really can't blame the parents like your post does.

Pretty silly of you to suggest that a 36 year old man accidentally over dosing is the fault of the parents.

[Roof-Daddy]

I think EE is saying that it's possible Sage could have been better parented/guided at a younger age, and may have steered clear of the lifestyle/habits that led to his early and unfortunate demise at the age of 36.


I have no idea myself, I just think that's what EE was getting at.