Mary,
Your posts on the Watchtower are ones I usually agree with but your sad diatribe on this sad woman surprises me.
"She was the epitome of a self-centered, drugged up slut. She had no morals (at least 3 men have come forward claiming they're the father of her baby). You never saw her on TV unless she was stoned out of her mind and shaking her enormous fake boobs in front of the camera. In a nutshell: she was trailor trash who seemed to be obsessed with trying to copy Marilyn Munroe's life-style and death. Not a good way to be remembered."
You call her a slut, someone with no morals, and trailor trash (many good people live in "trailors", btw) Do you know for yourself that she had "no" morals? On what do you base this accusation? On your opinion what classifies as morals?
This woman was a sad person who lived her life according to what, in her view, best served her. Many women today are living in circumstances where living a life within the accepted "moral" community is closed to them. Whenever we pass a strip club or a prostitute or see a Playboy magazine in a convenience store or read about a young woman who, like Anna Nichol, sells herself to the media we, imo, do see "a symbol of the wrongs in society," but those so called "wrongs" are not only their wrongs but also the wrongs of those who in the lives of these lost women were either unable or unwilling to spend the time and energy to help them grow into self-respecting individuals, individuals who regard their own personal worth something to be valued and protected.
But, even if Smith's life was totally her own doing, that in itself was her choice and her "shaking her enormous fake boobs" as you call them, or attempting to copy Monroe, as you say, or supposed "immorality" was her business. Are there any here who have had sex out of wedlock? or tried drugs? etc., she did it par excellence it's true but she is by no means alone in her excesses I'm sure.
She lived her life and died. She is at rest now but so many lost men and women like her are not, let us have compassion for them.
Ed.