It’s always a shock when a rock star dies...and our first reaction is “what happened?...how did this person die?”...

That’s completely natural...whenever we’re met with something incomprehensible, we demand an explanation...sometimes one comes quickly...other times, it takes days, weeks, months, and even years for the truth to come out—if at all... 

And how much are we entitled to know?...when do we cross the line from being curious and concerned to gawking and prurient and prying and invading very private space?...

Yet there is something to be said for learning about how someone died...maybe there’s a lesson to be learned or a cautionary tale, steps we or someone else can take to make sure something like this never happens again—or at least not as often...

A celebrity death is news, part of the public record...and wanting to know what happened helps us process the news and all the emotions that go along with such a death...

Besides, some will say, these doomed people are celebrities...and as celebrities, they lived with the idea that the public was interested in multiple aspects of their existence, including how they died...it goes with the territory...

And one other thing: could we ourselves ever meet such an end?...

With all that in mind, let’s look at some notable rock star deaths, focusing on what happened in the last moments of their time on earth...

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