Anna Nicole's sad end

News broke a couple hours ago that Anna Nicole Smith had died at age 39 in a Florida hotel room. No one knows how yet, but it seemed like the inevitable conclusion, didn't it? Like everyone was checking their watch, wondering when it would happen. And I don't say that callously. It just seemed like an escalatingly pathetic and sad life, equal parts her own doing and the manipulation by others. A terribly tragic waste of a fellow human being, who only a few months ago seemed to have finally found a healthy and sane existence. It's a shame.