Amy Winehouse Cremated In London
Mitch Winehouse, Janis Winehouse, Kelly Osbourne, Reg Traviss, Mark Ronson, Nick Grimshaw and dozens of mourners who aren't famous (so they were safe from me right click save-ing them) gathered at a synagogue in London this afternoon to pour a melted ice pop out for Amy Winehouse and say their goodbyes. Amy was cremated after the ceremony, because Mitch says it's a family tradition. Mitch also spoke at his daughter's funeral and told jokes about her childhood, says Amy's rep.
After the memorial, which was in Hebrew and English, Carole King's "So Far Away" played as everyone shuffled out. Amy's usually mute on-and-off-again piece Reg Traviss, who I didn't even know could speak words out loud, gave a statement to The Sun before her funeral.
"We have suffered a terrible untimely loss and want peace now.I can't describe what I am going through and I want to thank so much all of the people who have paid their respects and who are mourning the loss of Amy, such a beautiful, brilliant person and my dear love.
I have lost my darling who I loved very much."
The prison wouldn't give Blaaaaaaake a day pass, so sadly he wasn't there to throw himself on the casket, chase down the hearse and then get into a slap match with Mitch in the middle of the street. That's the dramatic mess of a conclusion we all needed. And as for Pete "Dreamboat" Doherty, he couldn't make it either because he was on his way to South America to plead with La Pequena to come out of retirement so she can perform an in memoriam tribute to Amy at the Grammys. Stay tuned, as hos say.
It was as humid as an Amazon's armpit in NYC this past weekend and my hair still looks like Allison Janney's in Drop Dead Gorgeous, so I'm just going to say this is my head's way of paying a half homage to Amy. R.I.P.
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I love how Kelly can be so "devastated" when her "best friend" died but still take the time and effort to be so "stylish and well coiffed".
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Submitted by RustyHooligan on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:50pm.
Mitch Winehouse "told the mourners that his daughter had been off drugs for three years, and was working hard to combat her alcoholism, had found love again and 'was the happiest she has been for years.'" (Guardian)
Those are not rational, objective, honest assessments.
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True, but show me someone who is "rational, objective and honest" at the death of their child and I'll show you a psychopath. If my child dies before me I have the perfect cliff off the coast picked out for my slip and fall. Fuck rationality.
Submitted by Sandbitch on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:07pm.
"...M2C is going to kick me in the vulva for that."
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You got that right!
Nah, maybe later. I don't have the energy to care right now. I'm still too focused on trying to drown the sads.
Such a unique and unforgettable talent, I don't think I'll have the same reaction again to a singer in my lifetime. She was one of a kind.
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Submitted by Ford_Prefect on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 9:00pm.
Thank you for the link. The article was VERY interesting.
RustyHooligan on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:50pm.
Those are not rational, objective, honest assessments.
Exactamundo. These parents wanted to live in DENIAL rather than really fight, blood, tooth and nail to save their daughter from her own demons.
Sorry, but, (and, I'm no fucking saint), I'd (with the help of my hubby) build a fucking SAFE ROOM, lock her up and make her get CLEAN for a good two months against her fucking WILL and yes, that would be considered KIDNAPPING but I would rather go to jail for holding my child against her will than putting flowers on her fuckin' casket.
Mitch Winehouse "told the mourners that his daughter had been off drugs for three years, and was working hard to combat her alcoholism, had found love again and 'was the happiest she has been for years.'" (Guardian)
Those are not rational, objective, honest assessments.
Just fucking sadness. Fuck you, Amy, it REALLY hurts!!!
Jew Skank here.
Okay, for shits and giggles, this is the view of cremation from the Orthodox/Conservative side of Judaism. For my O/C Jew friends, this little essay sums up their feelings on the issue.
Mind you this is from a funeral home which basically caters to Lubavitchers/Modern Orthodox and the like. Remember most of the Jews you meet in the US, and not O or C, but Reform.
http://www.hebrewmemorial.org/a-perspective-on-cremation
Have fun plowing through that.
So all you Workman Circle/Humanistic/Reform/Reconstructionist Jews, don't get your panties in a wad. I know that is not what you believe.
Anyway...that being said...there is a Jewish funeral home in my area that has memorial services for cremations. Now, I don't know if the remains are in the home during the service(guessing not), or it is just the service at a Jewish funeral home. Never been to one of those.
Someone asked me if Amy's mom is Jewish. I don't know. Because (for my Orthodox friends) if mom is a Jew, she's a Jew according to Jewish Law. If it is her dad, with no formal Orthodox conversion (for Amy), she isn't considered a Jew(sorry Reform friends), so the cremation is irrelevant.
There is your religious tibit of the night.
Surprised that the cremation was in the UK. Almost all my Jewish friends from the UK are Orthodox, and there are many more Orthodox communities in the world than Reform.
*shrug*
Whatever gets her family and friends through the grieving process.
~*Lets go to my room pig!*~
Correct me if i'm wrong-but didnt mark ronson laugh at jokes made about amy on the show never mind the buzzcocks? i agree with whoever said he is a famewhore.
I can't deny loving her sober, coherent, studio voice...farewell Amy
I spent my dream birthday in London, sight-seeing, shopping etc. Get back to hotel, flip on tv, "Amy Winehouse has died." Worst birthday present ever. I will never forget my Amy girl.I hope you are at peace sweetie.
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I've written a letter to MK...saying...I...love...youuuuuu.
It is so painful to love an addict. I agree with Stoney.
Just devastatingly, all-consumingly, no gain, pain. But we love them without end, as addicted to them as they are to dope/booze/whatever.
Ashes to ashes.
"This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks
But when the voices shaken from the yew-tree drift away
Let the other yew be shaken and reply."
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Submitted by Stoney on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:44pm.
Sometimes as horrible as it sounds, it is a relief for family and friends when an addict is finally at peace and the daily agony of worrying about them is over. Of course you would still grieve and wish that it had gone the other way and they had recovered, but at least the torture of the addiction and the pain it inflicts on the addict and their loved ones is over. At least that is what a close friend told me when her mother passed away and she acted numb rather than hysterical. The process of loving an addict is an exhausting and extremely painful one.
*waits to be flamed*
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Actually, a friend of mine had a brother who died of OD and he agrees with that statement. His family was at peace in the moment he was put to rest.
And I agree with that part about loving an addict. I went through hell trying to help a couple of people whom I know refer to as exfriends. It may not be a lost battle for a few, and I may have been wrong about a lot of things I did for them, but in my experience, it's not worth it. Whether they live or die now, I don't care, but I'm glad to have walked away from them.
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"Sal, darling, you are the reason some women go gay. ♥" - Submitted by Dog on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 6:32pm.
"life is precious, you must not have watched The Lion King, you heartless fuck"
Submitted by Tigerlilly on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 5:31pm.
I find it odd re: "a family tradition"...Why would you have to explain a cremation at all if it weren't frowned upon in your religion? I'm asking questions cuz I really don't know...
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T-lilly, I read that they're following on a "tradition" because that is also the place where Amy's grandmother was cremated.
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"Sal, darling, you are the reason some women go gay. ♥" - Submitted by Dog on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 6:32pm.
"life is precious, you must not have watched The Lion King, you heartless fuck"
I have lost my darling who I loved very much."
You mean you loved her to death.
Submitted by mike on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 10:11am.
Submitted by snowpiece on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 10:05am.
PSL I think those are Kelly's hands, LOL
So, in spite of the weight loss, she still has "fat face" AND fat hands?
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AND fat calves and upper arms CUZ bitch is just meant to be fat...kinda like Oprah...Look at they heads. The heads don't LIE. No, you got fat head, yo ass meant to be MEATAY.That's it.
I thought Jews didn't cremate? Can my DListed Jewish skanks set the record straight on that...I find it odd re: "a family tradition"...Why would you have to explain a cremation at all if it weren't frowned upon in your religion? I'm asking questions cuz I really don't know...
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
Submitted by Raul Duke on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 9:33am.
Raul last wish is to be cremated then have the old lady put the ashes in her douchebag and run me thru one last time.
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*snorts*
i loved all of mk's post on her. even though it was all kinds of fckury going on in her life.mk made it all entertaining and there is an amy winehouse in all of us at dlisted. does that mean that because she is dead...my little amy winehouse persona has died?
(smokes bowl..)
NOPE!
rest in peace,amy winehouse:)
it's odd that Pete D couldn't be there....I mean, what is one day to set aside to honor a friend? fishy!
Please take a moment to read this short interview in Harpars Bazzar last Winter xo "members"
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http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/amy-winehouse-int...
She was talented and surely had many more unique and heartfelt offerings to share with us.
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RIP Amy.
I know its been a couple of days but I'm still shocked and saddened by Ms. Winehouse's passing.
Say what you will about her demons, but she was a genuinely talented person. In a world full of Rihanna's, Keshas etc. that's saying a lot.
The only thing that makes me smile is knowing that Amy Winehouse didn't die completely because she will live on through her wonderful music.
And on a bitch/selfish note I was hoping for her comeback because I'm tired of that Adele trick.
The fact that Jelly (that was a legit type-o but me likey) Osbourne was actually going to a Trashdashian shower in the first place speaks volumes.
She's probably going to eat herself into the fattest ass ever as a tribute to Kim's wedding.
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Dark-sided!
I wonder if they got a second hand high from her smoke?
Submitted by Stoney on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:44pm
The process of loving an addict is an exhausting and extremely painful one.
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Co-sign all the way.
I'm saddened by this, I really loved Amy Winehouse and every track on "Back to Black" has a special place in my heart all the way back from 2k7 to now. She brought a lot of great music to my life and because of her I learned about a lot of retro girl groups who I know LOVE and enjoy quite a bit. Girl gave me the gift of her song and it was all intelligently written, beautifully sung, and ORIGINAL.
No gimmicks, Winehouse was a full-fledged artist that would've surpassed a lot of dog & pony shows we see today if she hadn't died. I'd always hoped my woman, Miss Amy Jade Winehouse, had come back to grace the charts with her wonder. I kept up with her and was a fan for a while, I'll miss her all the time I have to hear a lesser artist just scratch the surface of what she managed to delve into with pure unadulterated soul.
So fuck all the opportunistic comedians and righteous types. If my Amy Winehouse is fighting some unholy war, I will stand beside her even if she's left us too soon.
And fuck this 27 club shit, I don't care about coincidences like that... I love Amy Winehouse and nothing in the past, present, or future will ever change that!
This explains that weird glow I saw on the horizon.
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"I am the Devil, and I'm here to do the Devil's work"
No more fighting with all that awful shit.
Rest in peace girl.
I agree with Stoney. Sorry if it sounds mean but it's the truth. Maybe she is finally at peace now. I also believe the same applies with suicidal people. You never know what it was like to live in their head, maybe that was their best option:/ Sad all around.
***ETA: not that I was ever a big Wino fan but at least she didn't have kids to drag into her mess. That would have been worse.
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FANTA FANTA, NO COKE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnRDU4LdZE
What an insult having talentless, trust fund baby, Kelly O there. She is a world class parasite just like her mother.
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I'm no big Kelly fan, but the girl was one of Amy's best friends. Mark Ronson produced Back to Black and did that Valerie song with her.
Sometimes as horrible as it sounds, it is a relief for family and friends when an addict is finally at peace and the daily agony of worrying about them is over. Of course you would still grieve and wish that it had gone the other way and they had recovered, but at least the torture of the addiction and the pain it inflicts on the addict and their loved ones is over. At least that is what a close friend told me when her mother passed away and she acted numb rather than hysterical. The process of loving an addict is an exhausting and extremely painful one.
*waits to be flamed*
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"Let s/he who is without sin, cast the first Stoney."
Submitted by saltydog88 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:38pm.
Except for Aguilera-- Kelly hates that bitch (and I admit I LOVE that!)
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Am I the only one who is confused about how Kelly Osbourne has so many friends? Don't get me wrong, now that she's matured I find her to be quite charming on Fashion Police...but like how does she have enough time in the day to be friends with EVERYBODY? Like every time I watch her show Joan Rivers makes some crack about a skanky starlet ho and Kelly is always jumping in with "Well, now she's a friend of mine and she's a lovely girl..." it's odd
Whose hands are those? Is that Amy's engagement ring from Blake????
When the party's through seems so very sad for you. Didn't do the things you meant to do. Now there's no time to start anew.
RIP Amy Camden won't be the same.
RIP Amy. So Talented. No one will ever know the pain that you endured, which ultimately caused you to slowly kill yourself in front of the whole world.
Kelly Taylor: Well we all have our crosses to bear.
Brenda Walsh: Or our legs to uncross.
-----episode 3.14 "Wild Horses," Beverly Hills 90210
@ whamo..it's mary louise parker (rolling her eyes) but I can't seem to alter the jpg to fit dlisted and keep it as a jpg and not a pic:) tech dummy, I am..
Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:21pm.
I wasn't going there exactly, I was just thinking of having to attend the autopsy of all the people you love from schul--and monitoring the handling of internal organs. Personally never got up the nerve to watch an autopsy--though a professor had a tape of one she made available to the morbidly curious.
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Ohh okay. Yeah we had many many Rabbis attending autopsies. Usually the organs either disposed of or just place in a bag in the chest cavity.. there is a whole procedure with a Jewish autopsy.
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Submitted by Team Valtrex on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:22pm.
I third this. She was Taylor Dayne with less catchy lyrics and a crack habit.
---I bet she had a whopping life insurance policy though eh? Good old Mitch (hands all red from rubbing) gets to retire in luxury before Amy got the time to piss it all down the terlit.
PFFFFT.
I think she had a once in a generation voice, and showed great promise. But a couple of hit songs before she gave herself over to addiction is not going to place her among history's great singers.
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Submitted by Stock Broker on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:51am.
Have fair winds & following seas, RIP.
I know I'm going to get alot of flack for this, but she was WAY, WAY overrated.
---Allow me to add AND DUMB AS ALL FUUUUCK!! Really dumb. Which is why its abso no surprise she accidentally killed herself. All that fame and cash wasted! Note that I didn't list talent/ed.
M2C is going to kick me in the vulva for that.
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I third this. She was Taylor Dayne with less catchy lyrics and a crack habit.
*hides from My2c*
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"I am the Devil, and I'm here to do the Devil's work"
I wasn't going there exactly, I was just thinking of having to attend the autopsy of all the people you love from schul--and monitoring the handling of internal organs. Personally never got up the nerve to watch an autopsy--though a professor had a tape of one she made available to the morbidly curious.
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Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:45am.
That's gotta be a tough part of the rabbi job duties...
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bwwaahhaha!!! I just realized how that read. HA HA HA !!
Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:45am.
That's gotta be a tough part of the rabbi job duties...
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Submitted by Morbidosity on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 10:53am.
...it pretty much remains in the Rabbi's hands after death. They have to be there during the autopsy and anything taken out must be put back in...
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bwwaahhaha!!! I just realized how that read. HA HA HA !!
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Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do.
Well I guess we know what happened to "man hands" from that Seinfeld episode... (which was played by Pam from True Blood btw)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSL4cmFW_GU
Submitted by Stock Broker on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:51am.
Have fair winds & following seas, RIP.
I know I'm going to get alot of flack for this, but she was WAY, WAY overrated.
---Allow me to add AND DUMB AS ALL FUUUUCK!! Really dumb. Which is why its abso no surprise she accidentally killed herself. All that fame and cash wasted! Note that I didn't list talent/ed.
M2C is going to kick me in the vulva for that.
Submitted by grapesoder on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:58am.
When my best friend died, she had moved out of state two years before, so all her new friends "spoke" at the memorial before the grave-side ceremony, and it was so not her.
That was how I learned that memorials/funerals of young people (in this case 21) are a clusterfuck of other people's agendas.
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fuck yes, that's always the way, isn't it?
so sad
the 27 club....this freaks me the fuck out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
When my best friend died, she had moved out of state two years before, so all her new friends "spoke" at the memorial before the grave-side ceremony, and it was so not her.
That was how I learned that memorials/funerals of young people (in this case 21) are a clusterfuck of other people's agendas.
Looking back, I should have stood up and said "Sit the fuck down and shut your mouth. She wouldn't have wanted you to stand over her casket wearing last year's semi-formal dress while you speculate about heaven and make inside jokes to your sorority sisters. She would have wanted us to to read scripture and play her music. So sit down or get the hell out." My bestie would have LOVED the drama.
But instead I just sat there in a fog and listened. Now every time I visit her grave I can't think of anything but how quickly they left when it started thundering and how the graveyard worker told us that he was sorry but rain was coming and he'd have to get started but we could watch him lower the giant cement box the casket was in and bury it.
I wish I'd been in prison instead.
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one wondering about those freakish hands.
Submitted by bexicle on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:31am.
I know, I agree...she'd have to be conservative Jewish at best...anything more strict and the tats would have been a no-no. But then again, anything more strict and her whole life would have been a no-no.
I'm just not sure how long autopsies and extracting samples for toxicology takes...I'd think a day...and I'm pretty sure that rule about being buried within 24 hours (with loopholes) applies to anyone who calls him/herself a Jew.