Oh god heard he was back on the drugs again about a year ago. Great loss for the American film industry.

R.I.P.

He was in some pretty decent films.

What a shame.  A fine actor.  I just enjoyed watching him Friday night in Mission: Impossible III.

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Another idiot hits the needle.  It's a shame he was talented idiot.  Sorry, no respect for people who throw it away like this...

Have you ever suffered a depression causing illness?

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Another idiot hits the needle.  It's a shame he was talented idiot.  Sorry, no respect for people who throw it away like this...

Have you ever suffered a depression causing illness?

IMHO - Isn't an excuse.

I'm not making excuses. It's scientific fact that people who have chemical imbalances in there brain often resort to drugs  and other substances to release dopamine. And unless you have experienced that i don't think it's right to make assumptions about a person.

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I'm not making excuses. It's scientific fact that people who have chemical imbalances in there brain often resort to drugs  and other substances to release dopamine. And unless you have experienced that i don't think it's right to make assumptions about a person.

you're assuming that is what his problem was. Not the rush and feeling that he felt while doing drugs. And trying to get a better high and exceding his limits.

No i'm merely stating the possibility of what made him resort to drugs. And not as you are assuming his consumption of narcotics is down to some warped hedonistic behaviour.

R.I.P. – He was great in Boogie Nights.

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I'm not making excuses. It's scientific fact that people who have chemical imbalances in there brain often resort to drugs  and other substances to release dopamine. And unless you have experienced that i don't think it's right to make assumptions about a person.

Most of humanity never deals with depression at its absolute worst and can't really sympathize with the experience when it happens to others. I haven't felt that in 25 years...and I never want to again. But the memory of it is always there. If you have experienced it, you'll know what I mean because it's far different than your average "depression" as most people classify it.

I've never used illegal drugs though, or used a God/Gods, etc... and I get along just fine. But I don't judge people who have addiction problems either. It's easy to judge when looking at something from well outside of their life experience and problems.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was a human and as such very complicated.
Any thing living is complicated and a humans are of the most complicated. And we don't do a very good job of dealing with humans. Not even with those we have lived with or “known” for years. Not even the so called experts. Yet we are so judgmental and a death is so final. Yet we judge people by some article we read, written by some idiot limited by a definite space and time assigned to him.

No matter how detailed you try to define a persons life or break it down into volumes of words it is never complete or final.

A human life is not like a problem in mathematics or even a computer where you write down the equations of the circuitry and prove whether it will work or not. We have just started to have some understanding of the workings of the brain, but will we ever understand the mind.
You can not write a write an equation for a life. That why being a parent is the hardest job any human will ever have to deal with.

I took a course titled "Consciousness and Its Implications", and I don't know where Consciousness is nor can I put my finger on it.

And he was a very talented actor and as such if I noticed his name in the credits, the film deserved further investigation.