Peaches Geldof

I am inclined to agree with your 2nd para bags.

It's a great pity she had already given birth to offspring. Otherwise she'd have qualified for a Darwin Award – for removing her damaged genes from the gene pool.

I know that sounds terrible but the thought is there. I can't help thinking that such a tortured soul is better dead. I feel sorriest for her husband.

I know a young american woman (my friend adopted her when she was a toddler). As a baby she was abused and neglected. Added to that she has a very limited IQ and has suffered from a period of mental illness. I think the very low IQ at least is a result of the drugs she was exposed to in the womb.

Going one step further than the discussion has ever gone before and I am not I assure you making a nasty implication here, can a baby in the womb ever be free of the toxins it's mother gives it?

The reason why I ask?

I have seen women getting their 'fix' of presumably methodone from a chemist, pushing their babies in a pushchair and to be honest I find it quite possibly one of the saddest, liberal thinking disgraces I ever have witnessed. I think liberal freedom is OK but not at the expense of a child's future.

I am not particularly saying the poor girls demise was the product of her mothers lifestyle but I am genuinely asking could it have attributed to the act of destruction she suffered.

I don't know the answer but it is a point in question that society should be debating. We seem to be prioritising the mothers choice of lifestyle over that of the unborn child. I may be totally wrong in asking this question on this thread but I am genuinely concerned about the unborn infants future welfare, not that of the mother who has somehow been given permission from society to behave as she pleases and to hell with the consequences of the unborn child.

I am not a cold hearted person I acknowledge Paula Yates, her mother, suffered from possibly inherited problems of one sort or another. I am truly saddened that two vibrant, beautiful women have apparently lost their life through the curse of addiction to drugs and another demon hopefully most of us will never have to deal with.

She really did not get off to a good start did she. I found the media description of her as a "socialite" rather worrying, to me that term sounds as if the person concerned has made some very shallow lifestyle choices.

It's not exactly a job you could feel proud of.

I have to say I agree with that, mainly due to the last photos that were on her facebook page.

I can't shake off a feeling that she perhaps deliberately went where her mother had gone, perhaps in a moment of unbearable pain. All speculation of course. It just seems incredible to me that she would take heroin while caring for her baby and leave him at such risk. I don't doubt that she loved her children and wanted to be a good mother. Hard to know what is in an addict's head.

So very sad, one wonders how many generations will be affected. Peaches was always very insistent that she wouldn't repeat her mother's mistakes so it's doubly tragic if she succumbed in the end. I agree with Merlot that Tiger Lily will need a lot of support, as of course will the widower with those two babies.

I hope someone is going to look out for Tiger Lily. She must be the most vulnerable of all of them now.

Ah, I see. Thanks, nightowl.

Heroin closely allied to morphine, and we know what that does if you have enough of it. I think cocaine far less likely to kill you as it is an upper not a downer.
Poor girl. Her mum was equally fragile and depression may be inherited.

Ana I think cocaine is the 'party' drug of choice for celebrities; heroin the drug of choice for anyone who wants to stop feeling pain. Not that I've ever tried either nor have any wish to.

I wasn't expecting any drug involvement at all as I really thought she had managed to get back on track.

Very sad to hear this news.

Tragic. The horrible comments on Facebook are senseless and cruel. If she had a lower tolerance for drugs after abstaining, together with bulimia side effects, a single craving to use heroin whilst feeling down could have caused her death. Too easily done.

I must admit I was shocked/surprised that it was heroin. I thought cocaine was the drug of choice for most celebs these days. What a sad waste of a life...

Terribly sad. Losing her mother seems to have cast a very long shadow. I think the reason drug use is so prevalent amongst celebrities is because they are just so easily available and in that circle so acceptable. I am still shocked that she took drugs while caring for her baby, but clearly she wasn't thinking straight at the time. Poor girl.

I must say I was saddened by the news that this young woman died of what was reported as an 'overdose' - it seemed so pointless...

There has been such hateful, judgemental and wicked comments on Facebook about this poor girl. I cannot believe how cruel people can be.

Why is this s prevalent among "celebrities" - it is almost as bad as the "cycle of deprivation" that afflicts the poor in our society. I can almost get my head round people on the bottom rung turning to drugs for some sort of cushioning of their lot, but these privileged people have no need of that. Let us hope that her two boys will break the cycle.

Silly, silly young woman

How tragic

It is being reported that 'Heroin' was likely to have contributed to her death.

The echoes of her mother cannot be out of your mind, the poor children left behind.

The baby won't have conscious memory of what happened, but will grow up without his mum, and with discussions about her ( like this one) out there in cyber space for ever.

Apparently the 11 month old baby was found in the house with her. Peaches' husband raised the alarm when she didn't answer her phone which makes me suspect there must have already been some concerns over her health.

It's a good thing that the baby will be too young to remember anything about it but what a horrible thing to have happened.

There is talk in the papers of bulimia which over time results in over production of, I believe it said, potassium which can lead to cardiac arrest.

She has had a close call twice before, so could well be natural causes due the previous damage done.

Let's just wait until the inquest. It could well be SADS / natural causes. It sounds like that to me. Plenty of young mums are skinny and exhausted but don't die. I know how horrendous a sudden death is for the family. There is nothing anyone can say which can make it better. We just have to think of them in their sadness.