Jump or slip, can only go in One Direction

Whether you jump or slip on the railing, you can only really go in One Direction

When Thing Fall Apart (Pema Chodron)

A spirit-prompted suicide? The Dark Side is tricky, devils and demons being very lawyer-istic. So let's say a superstar sold out for talent, fame, and riches then regretted it because there was nothing to do in hotel rooms on tour to enjoy those things except drugs and drink? Then, say, one day living the same old-same old habit, it becomes a rager. He's breaking everything up, getting aggressive, elated, hopping on rails in death defying stunts and the spirits, sick of his stupid showing off and eager to cash in on their side of the deal, give a little nudge. Not quite a push. But being high, he slips and dies. Oops. They collect the spirit on their end, the police come and have a look around with nothing much to determine other than the unknowable -- stupid accident or dumb deal? The Five Precepts could have prevented this death, but who has time for virtue or morality when you're effin famous? Woooo! It's time to party!

Liam Payne had multiple drugs in his body at time of death, including 'pink cocaine'

(ABC7) Oct. 21, 2024: A partial autopsy found that former One Direction singer Liam Payne had multiple substances in his system when he fell plunged floated to his death from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct. 16th, [as there was nowhere else to go but One Direction (down),] sources tell ABC News.

• [NOTE: Pink cocaine is not discolored coca leaves treated with toxic synthetic chemicals to produce the familiar powdered stimulant. It's a whole new concoction of different illegal drugs not based on nature but a lab, a cooker, and a dime bag dealer with a little cocaine sprinked in.]

Those substances included "pink cocaine" -- a new recreational drug that is typically a mix of several old street drugs, including methamphetamine (Crystal Meth), ketamine (Special K), MDMA (Ecstasy, Molly), and others -- as well as cocaine (Coke aka Nose Candy), benzodiazepine (Benzos), and crack (aka Da'Sh-t).  [What, no Crank, Glint, or Bath Salts aka Zombie Tonic?] More: abc7.la

The moral of the story?

Commentary and preamble by Wisdom Quarterly

So, Kids, the lesson here is that when you become YouTube famous and are a great influencer, maybe "don't smoke drugs"? Just saying.

How sucky are beauty, youth, riches, talent, and fame that you have to try every substance imaginable trying to manage your feelings?

Better to be

• mindful (practice bare awareness just watching without reacting to anything in the customary habit of giving in to attraction, aversion, or delusion),
• meditate (bring together all the parts of consciousness into coherence) for focus and absorption,
• let go (don't cling), and
• win some insight (liberating understanding because the truth sets one free) into the true nature of existence.

In other words, beat Death before Death beats you. Reach the deathless state (amata), a synonym for nirvana, or face these things that are all a part of samsara.

Or join a boy band working for cruel Simon Cowell of AGT and plunge to an early demise while he cashes in on increased sales, which is the usual result of an artist's premature death. Sorry to be harsh.