DEATH OF RIVER PHOENIX
Heart Phoenix’s response to her son River’s drug overdose outside a Hollywood nightclub last year is as symptomatic of our age’s ills as was his death. Heart hopes that River’s overdose will “focus the attention of the world on how painfully the spirits of this generation are being worn down. They are growing up with polluted air, toxic earth and food, and undrinkable water. We are destroying our forests, the ozone layer is being depleted, and AIDS and other diseases are epidemic. Drug abuse is symptomatic of an unfeeling, materialistic, success-oriented world in which the feelings of young people are not seen as important.” With all due respect to the bereaved mother, what his death should really focus the attention of the world on are the consequences of a society in which moral absolutes are trashed, in which people won’t take responsibility for their actions, and in which the family unit has been torn apart. These are the factors involved…
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