"...died from cocaine abuse..."

So... she was, she was a "crack head".

It is just so tragic that a drug as sinister as crack can take someone completely down and suck the life right out of them. So very sad. I have known a couple of people that have crashed and burned on this stuff and have yet to recover even with many rehab stints. It really just stuns me.

Crack is Whack.

I better check my Swedish Family history album - I think I'm related to this family.

and how many people drink them selves to death each day? 151 Rum almost killed me when I was young - it sold me on weed. According to D.A.R.E; moderation isn't worth teaching.

i hate it when someone dies just as we start a cocaine binge group. It's days or weeks before you can call someone.

This twit had a pacemaker in her chest and she was smoking coke? Sheesh. What a dumba$$.

Don't know how to respond to this but I'll try. Why in the hell do you smoke this when it's easier to snort it(I used to), If your trying to get"higher" then go outside and start digging. Plus the other thing is, if your that rich you can afford quality not quantity, Plus if you got a F--kup'd heart why do you do it, it's cool when your young, but when you get older, well times change. Ain't done coke or speed(meth) since I've been about 30, now I have an enlarged heart and it's cool, at one point you have to get high on something else,would like to do the stuff I used to do and Thank God He won't let me find somebody except for every once in a while(I think it's me, but at least He modifies me so I don't get so stupid as these people).

Danny, who is "He"? God? Whatever dude. You did all that crap to yourself. Own up and man up...

Cocaine and crack are no the same drug.Either way even the wealthy mess up their lives with dope.

I don't think I will ever understand the rich doing drugs , back when I was young and dumb I did some drugs (crack wasn't around back then) , but I did drugs more out of boredom than anything else . As a rich person I would be doing far too much traveling to be bored .

"This twit had a pacemaker in her chest and she was smoking coke? Sheesh. What a dumba$$."

No, Magic Rat. HE has a pacemaker. Don't they teach reading comprehension in school anymore?

Try again jetjoky. The coroner didn't perform an autopsy on the still living husband. "Deputy coroner Shirley Radcliffe ruled that Rausing, who suffered from the heart condition tricuspid valve disease and had had a pacemaker fitted, had died from cocaine intoxication."

Obviously jetjoky has no reading comprehension:

Deputy coroner Shirley Radcliffe ruled that Rausing, who suffered from the heart condition tricuspid valve disease and had had a pacemaker fitted, had died from cocaine intoxication.

jetjoky wrote: "No, Magic Rat. HE has a pacemaker. Don't they teach reading comprehension in school anymore?"

Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit is it jetjoky?

"Cocaine is God's way of telling you, you have to much money." Richard Pryor. It's kind of a paraphrase, but you get the point...

Nah, you're not going to hear back from jetjoky after that one..

Hey, "just" (1.8) sorry but crack is a form of cocaine.

"woofa "1.13" how about if YOU read the article again....

I had a girlfriend of 11 years who inherited a third of her fathers stuff when he died, it was around 10 million that she got. This is what she, and one of her sisters chose to do with the money. Between her, and her sister, it was around $100,000 a year habit. I left, and when I told her I was leaving for good, she just said "OK". They would stay locked in her bedroom days on end, I think her sister was headed for divorce too. I felt bad for her husband. I told him, "at least I don't have kids with her", that poor guy had his only child with her. He responded, "don't remind me".

WAIT JUST A DOG-GONE MINUTE HERE !!

Mitt Romney & the entire conservative side of the country

just spent the last 12 years

telling that rich people are smart .....

IF that were really true then they'd be hiring cheap illegals

to do the dope for them !

get a think on that !

s-1489198 you can join jetjoky in the moron category of reading comprehension. Good grief, it's even brought to attention and an idiot like you still can't get it. Is your IQ 83? Come on idiot, I dare you to reply.

Mister Fids--that was a truly, TRULY moronic comment. "Get a think on that"?? What does that even mean? Apparently, stupidity like your's and jetjockey's is not a deterrent to posting inane comments.

And people think money will make you happy. This poor woman evidently was not happy and hooked on too many drugs. How very sad

Eva Rausing's family has said it believed she turned to drugs in her late teens to overcome acute shyness.

Another enabled human being dies due to the horrible addiction to life destroying drugs.

And this is another lesson that more money does NOT always solve life's problems.

Myself, I choose to fault this man for allowing his wife to kill herself....he should have been HELPING her get OFF the drugs and NOT standing by as she killed herself with them.

Reality I completely agree. If you truly love someone you want them healthy, alive and with you for years.

I was so shy I would run; until I was 6 or so, jump in my mother's lap and hide my face so no one could see me. I made myself get out and talk to people when I became an older teen. I forced myself to be friendly, now people wish I was shy I'm sure. I love people.

Debora: I was also painfully shy as a boy.

Now I'm able to confront and have had to do so repeatedly.

I like to converse and to be involved but right now as the economy is so very hard in CONUS about anyone that wants to be "friends" is often really just looking for a new source of something other than friendship.

However, there's no reason NOT to be friendly and also open to communication as it can always be prevented from turning into a Q/A session IF someone is just out to see what they can get besides friendship/love.

Reality,

Yes, we want to be very careful who we become friends with and how much we talk about concerning our private lives, and work life.

As a member of Stars and Stripes newspaper we learn yearly about the terrorists who seem like every day people but want to know all you know about certain things. Sometimes even those things seem innocent but they are not and at some point they can turn against America.

Thank God I don't know anything other than what is printed in the paper and that is public knowledge. Sometimes that is not a good thing either but it is called freedom of speach. (^_^)

I refuse to lock myself away and I cannot be used of God if I hide in my own little world so I have to listen to my heart as God leads me and be very careful what I say.

That is odd, isn't it? But then, this entire story is very, very odd. I can only imagine what that townhouse smelled like when they removed that body.

do they only call it "smoking coke" when it's rich white people?

because im pretty sure you smoke crack out of foil

And they also don't charge you with manslaughter, just give you a suspended sentence for not burying her, if you're rich and white and they find your wife's rotted corpse in your home.

The only thing smoked I put in foil is salmon...but an pop can will work just fine for green bud.

Which came first; he heart problems or the coke...sounds like suicide, not manslaughter, or would that be womanslaughter?

Jessica,you idiot, your stupidity is hanging out, dear. No you DO NOT smoke crack from aluminum foil. 99% of the time it is smoked in a glass or metal (OUCH!!!) tube stuffed with copper Choreboy as a filter. Powdered coke you smoke like you usually do heroin or opium; by holding a flame under the drug on a sheet of aluminum foil and sucking the smoke thru a straw. The class for drug abuse 101 is dismissed. Your home work for tonight is to see how much of a quarter ounce of coke you can smoke before you die. Enjoy, kiddies.

And if you're sharing that quarter ounce with someone and only one of you dies, then remember it's easier to move the body than to move all your stuff to another room and put up with the smell.

So Jessica you are just a ditsy white broad?

Wow.....thank you very much for the fuking lesson on how to smoke coke.

• Just another rich Ed Gein wanabe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

Fids--Jeez, you don't know when to quit, do you? What possible parallel could there be between Ed Gein and this couple? Are there only single digit I.Q.'s in your house?

"Couldn't handle it", my a5s. He dumps a bunch of crap on top of her and leaves her like that? Didn't try to revive her...or at the very least dial 911 (or it's equivalent). Just left her. That isn't love, even for a nutcase. That is fear of legal problems with the police because of the drugs. It is selfishness beyond reason. It is too bad that she had the bad luck to pair up with this weakling loser, no matter how deep his pockets were. Now his deep pockets will keep him from being treated like anyone else who acted in such a callous manner. People can act like such sh/ts. Now he has shown himself to be sh/ttier than most. I hope he has to jerk off the rest of his life because no woman will accept him after this. They can spell his name "Hands" on his gravestone instead of "Hans". But I'm sure he'll be able to find a woman who is as bad as he is.

I read in a much ealier story that he lived with the body and was also consumed in his addition for many months after she died.

I think he lived with her in the same house WHILE SHE WAS DEAD. As he mentioned, he counldn't cope with the fact that she died.

Probably at some point her corpse started to stink and desintegrate, and that's when he left house?

Super wealthy people are usually very bizarre.

So Sandra believes he was an amateur mathematician..

This story has some very peculiar twists, but there is one aspect that baffles me.

Apart from the ghoulish behaviour of a husband living with a decomposing corpse, there is something else in this article that is very odd.

At the time of his wife's death (presumably in May), the husband covered the body with blankets and bedding, He then lived with the corpse for two months, until July, when the police found the body lying under layers of clothes and garbage bags.

Repeating the salients details:

In May the body was covered with blankets and bedding,

In July the body was covered with clothes and garbage bags,

If the inconsolable husband was so besotted with his beloved wife to the point of living with her corpse for two months, why then did he cover her with garbage?

Obviously, sanity is not the forte of the deranged, but the husband must have gone completely cuckoo in his crack-soaked head.

Money won't buy happiness. It will only rent it.

Money doesn't change or define people... it only magnifies who you really are...

82AllAmericans - I couldn't agree more. Well said sir:-)

parallelcooler

"The couple, who have four children, had a long history of problems with drugs. They first met at a U.S. rehabilitation center and gave generously to addiction treatment centers."

Translation: they spent lots of their money to help others... they just couldn't help themselves.

You're right about one thing, they needed to get up, get away from the drugs and get involved... not just throw money at the problem but make an actual connection with others.

Interesting thanks for your additional information. Yes, it's too bad they could not help themselves.

Yes and yes......

Of course it would fly in America. It's part of Obama Care!

Hmmm... Golfish-5135962, so maybe some of your "Patriot" and birther friends loosing their teeth to meth can use ObamaCare to buy some new teeth.

It's always about politics and President Obama...

82AllAmericans

I don't think Obamacare includes a dental plan.

...or common sense.

Rich Folks and their money! why arent they surrounded by people that love them and want to help?? Its all about the money.

Hans' father, Ruben Rausing *invented* the Tetra Pak in Sweden back in the 50's. It took him 10+ years to refine and perfect the product before bringing it to the market, and then another few years before it had its international break-through. Studied hard, worked hard - it had nothing to do with being in the right place or having the right parents :-)

As I recall, Rick knew what he was talking about.

Albert Einstein...E=MC2

he ALSO knew what he was talking about

and how to control himself around coke ...

it the responsibility thingy not the dope.

At least Richard got together with M.Jackson to start the Ignited Negro College Fund..

"Ignited Negro College Fund".

That is the funniest line I've heard this week. You get 3 slaps on the back!

Soooo...you're taking a story about two pathetic, self-entitled heirs to a fortune they had no part in making to extrapolate a blanket condemnation of all "rich" people? And you're doing it while ignoring the fact that the husband was English, they were living in London as English citizens, were heirs to a company founded in Sweden, and no part of their existence has squat to do with any part of America or our lives here? And you're doing this all while ignoring the billions of money given away philanthropically every year by our own super-rich, from Bill Gates to Warren Buffett? It's the old "soak the rich" mentality that is tearing this country apart--you're a perfect little soldier in Obama's "redistribution of wealth" socialist philosophy, aren't you? Of course, once you're done ripping up the very people who build our corporations and provide our jobs, good luck feeding your family. As pathetic as this story is, your comments are no more intelligent than their behavior.

Liberalism is emotion based. You can see it in her post. If I'm miserable, everyone else needs to be too etc.

Jack McCoy wouldn't have let him off that easily, that's for damned sure.

Are you HIGH ????

That's for the "little people", in her view.

That's funny because she was smoking cocaine with a home-made tin foil crack-pipe......little people, really????

Shave what......she is too old to be shaven. I bet the farm that she is sporting a fur coat because i can't imagine her with a camel toes. Oh no no no

Well, you are obviously since you commented on this article.