'The sadness I feel is the same thing I find myself feeling whenever a person dies without ever having attained what they were capable of doing. Like Elvis. Like Hank Williams. Like many another early death whether known only through the media or in my own experience.'

Oh come on Ebbie. Elvis and Hank Williams did indeed have untapped potential. We know that because we saw some of what they were capable of. Did Anna Nicole really have any potential beyond what we already witnessed? She was a fairly dim-witted sex kitten with numerous substance issues and a lust for fame and fortune. I really think we pretty much got the whole story.

Unfortunate that she died young, and I see nothing funny about it. Neither did I find it particularly sad or poignant, certainly not like feelings suggested by the deaths of Hank Williams, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Parker, or many others I could name.