Matthew Perry (Chandler) has died

I used that word because I knew the response to it would confirm my point. The posters who baulk at it being used in relation to someone wealthy and famous likely have no issue with it being used for the poor person lying in that wet sleeping bag. They will have compassion for the former but not for the latter. The latter has far less options or hope than the former too.

You don't have to have millions to be addicted. An addict of anything will source his/her hit regardless of wealth.

I suppose the question would be what an 18 year old would choose if you gave them the choice of living fast and dying young or having an average life and living into your 80's. Maybe even a 25 year old or 30 year old.

You'd probably find a split in the responses.

I am not the only one in here who did not like or rate it so why are you picking on me?

It's sad about Mathew Perry. He had a mostly good life do and with the money he had could have done anything even could have ran to be President of the USA if he wanted but unfortunately he never will now.

Was worth at least 80 million dollars.

I hope it was just a heart failure that killed him and not some drugs overdose because if it was that then its even sadder and a waste of a life.

The one where a really funny guy with addiction issues died way too soon.

I'd say it's more likely that the years of drug abuse when he was on them just took such a toll on his system that it shortened his lifespan. A lot of former drug addicts die relatively early even long after they've given up drugs.

The reports say he was playing pickleball (seems to be some sort of short tennis) for about 2 hours earlier in the day. Might have just been that extra strain that pushed his heart over the edge. It can happen to anyone, but especially if his systems were already weakened through his years of drugs.

Either way, a sad loss. I think regardless of anyone's opinions of Friends, it was hugely successful and he was many people's favourite. So many of the best bits came from him. He was also pretty successful outside of that. It was great to see in recent years that he'd gotten clean and was trying to be open and honest about his experiences in order to try help other people.

RIP.

Surely AH would be a better location given the types of post on here.

*Types of posters

Never married, no kids, never found love, a tortured soul

R.I.P

Very sad news, Friends will always be the best sitcom ever for me and Chandler was definitely the best character. He didn't look good in the Friends reunion but he was currently on a really good run of been sober, RIP Matthew

It sounds trite to say it but in this instance I legitimately think it's true. I imagine they are all almost like family and unlike other celeb deaths where people take the time to word poetic eulogies on Twitter and little else, in this case the rest of the cast are shocked and all just reaching out to each other and the extended production team.

Schwimmer was the one early on who convinced the rest of the cast to negotiate their contracts as a group rather than individually. It meant when the show became successful they had huge bargaining power and it's a big reason why they got such huge wages.

I hated his character, but Schwimmer definitely seems to have his head screwed on right.

Chandler was far and away my favourite character though. They all started out as decent characters, but over the seasons they all became such wacky and exaggerated versions of themselves and mostly became super dumb and annoying (Joey and Phoebe in particular, as bad as they were in early seasons they were absolute morons by the end). Chandler was probably the most consistent throughout. Perry had him nailed right from the start and there was little change needed to him over time.

They were always very united as a cast.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they are co-ordinating so they can pay tribute to Matthew together.

Technically he could. He was born in the US and had US citizenship.

Here he is taking on Peter Hitchens for his opinions on addiction and talking about his own experience with it on BBC 10 years ago