Carrie Fisher dead at 60

[wwkayaker]

2016 claims another celebrity.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/entert....html?adkey=bn

[Regulator75]

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=159039

[Coach]

A cultural icon and, despite her troubles, a role model for women everywhere for what it means to be yourself and express yourself.

All the best to her family, friends, and fans the world over.

Originally Posted by Regulator75

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=159039

The news is kind of buried in there. Nothing wrong with a new, more visible thread.

[Dion]

The Last Word: Carrie Fisher on LSD, Death and Sex With Han Solo

What are the important rules you live by?
Be kind. Don't hurt other people. It's all the sort of Christian ethics stuff I thought was bull#### when I was a kid. No, it turns out it's not bull####. Tell the truth, be kind, all that corny stuff.

What's the best advice you ever got?
You don't have to always be comfortable. You don't have to like everything you do. That was shocking to me. I thought I had to like everything I did. When I heard that, it was such a relief.

What advice do you wish someone had given you at age 19?
It was advice I couldn't take: Don't get loaded your whole ####ing life. And I did get loaded my whole ####ing life. You have to learn, and unfortunately it takes a lot of lessons for some of us to get it right.

Are there any upsides to doing drugs?
Yes. Absolutely. I don't think I was ever suicidal, and that's probably because of drugs. I did have … do have this mood disorder, so it probably saves me from the most intense feelings from that. I was able to mute that stuff. And I loved LSD. That was fantastic.

Are you ever tempted to take LSD these days?
Absolutely. I would like to do that stuff again, but it might be a little intense at my age. It was intense not at my age.

Describe your best trip.
It was probably in the desert. I had a lot of good ones. I had one where I was with Paul and my coat caught fire. We laughed at the flames. I had a lot of fun on acid and mushrooms and all that stuff. It was a part of my life when I was very young. I got into a lot of trouble because of it. Not the LSD, though. The other drugs.

Are there any drugs you wish you'd never touched?
The stronger of the opiate class. I would say heroin. I snorted that. I never did it the full-on way, which is basically what you do when you're trying to kill yourself.

Does any part of you wish the affair had been with Mark Hamill?
NO! No. But I suppose I would have been able to laugh about it with him. That's not something I can do with Harrison, though "lawyer" was pretty funny. At least it acknowledged that it existed.

You've been undergoing shock therapy for many years now. What are the biggest misconceptions about that?
Oh, everything ... that you have convulsions. You get put to sleep when they do it. It's very easy and very effective. And it's not used as punishment by nurses in a mental hospital when you're bad, which is how its depicted in literally every movie, both contemporary and past.

How has it changed your life?
At the time I was depressed, and it ended the depression. I couldn't fix it. Medication couldn't fix it. Therapy couldn't fix it. That did.

Are you happier now than you've ever been?
Yep. Well, I'm not happy about being older, except what are the options? But I've learned a lot. I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.

Do you fear death?
No. I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like. I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!

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