Agreed. This may have been newsworthy even if it wasn't a pseudo-celebrity.

Mother gives birth to baby daughter. Her 20 year old, healthy son dies of what appears to be natural causes while sleeping in a chair in her hospital room.
How freaky is that?

Clearly the answer is for no newsworthy events to occur on 9/11 ever again.

no one cares that Stephen Biko died today! WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT OTHER THINGS! It was in South Africa! HELLO! Apartheid?

How could we talk about anything else.

/sarcasm off

Hey Pittsburghers, Cyril Wecht is going to do the autopsy:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html

I'm in full agreement with Alpha on this one....I don't think a day has went by since 9/11 that we haven't heard about 9/11. I was actually out of the country for work on 9/11 and it was terrifying to have to take a plane back when the airports were re-opened. The airports were silent.

Sensitivity has gone overboard....when people like that lady that has been making the rounds on the talk shows that wants everyone to feel sorry for her because she blew through almost $5 million and now complaining she is broke after spending $250,000 on a pool and $16,000 on two yorkshire terriers...I think back to the $300 that I gave to the Red Cross, and how I had bills I had to pay, but I was thinking about the stay at home moms that would have a house payment the next month, or others whose income earner had died...not about someone who hired an interior decorator and decided that spending millions on her home would make her feel better.

Now they want $500,000 Million for a memorial?

Not a $1.00 will come from me.

When I first heard that his mother had hired someone to do anothe autopsy I thought, "Ok, this is damage control in advance", and was certain that drugs played a part.

I was very suprised that the coronor in the Bahamas could not establish an exact cause of death.

Very sad. I just hope Anna's daughter will be ok b/c her birth will forever be associated with her son's death...that will be a hard shadow to live in.

I was reading in People yesterday that Daniel has had no prior history of drugs but does have a history of heart problems. He also had several hosptializations, including some trips to ICU. Unfortunally, the doctors never found what his problem was. Maybe Anna wants to make sure that it was his heart and not something else.

Uncle Cyril!!!

I agree, the tragedy is not especially because this is Anna Nicole Smith's son, or any other pseudo-celebrity, it's the circumstance of a grown son coming to see his newborn sister and mother, and dying. If it hadn't been ANS, it would have appeared in the News of the Odd or whatever.

At the salon the other day, the women were talking this theory:

Daniel committed suicide because he is the father of the baby. That's why Anna Nicole is refusing to have the baby's paternity tested.

Very disturbing...!

(I'm surprised this wasn't posted here on GC already...?!)

I believe they have determined who the "baby daddy" is.

That's my mom's theory. Actually, my mom's theory is that Daniel was murdured b/c he's the baby's daddy.

They've already determined that Anna Nicole's lawyer was the baby daddy.

There is some other guy, Larry Birkhead, also claiming to be the babys dad.
She needs to get a DNA test.

CNN is now reporting that Anna Nicole Smith died in Florida today. I hope her baby is ok and they get the paternity straightened out so hopefully she can have a normal life.