Being a bit of a morning tv fan - property shows in particular, I was very sad to learn of the death of Kristian Digby. He was a lovely presenter - and so young.
No idea what caused it yet - but whatever it was it's tragic.

Have just seen it myself...very sad and only 32.

What's going on at the moment with these young people?  Seems to be so many of them dying of natural causes in their 30's.  How sad.

RIP.

I can't believe he is gone, he was such a lovely man. :-( RIP so tragic, his poor family.

Shocked me this morning when I got up to hear that on the news. He was a gem on morning TV and loved watching him. He had a lot of charisma and very talented young man. I have to also add that I thought he was great to look at too :-), regardless of his sexual orientation.

Lets hope that he passed by natural causes rather than anything else, they are saying on the news that the PM will take place at 12 today..

RIP you beautiful young man, such a talent gone to waste...

I liked Kristian as well. He was always full of boundless energy. Such a shame :(

Suejaw I agree, thought he was LOVELY!!!

I've just read that the post mortem is expected to confirm that he died as a result of auto-erotic asphyxiation........

I am so sad too, he was such a nice young man!

So so sad, not a morning TV fan normally but 'to buy or not to buy' with him and Dominic really brightened my days post op last year. RIP x

Where did you read that Lois?

Reported by Times Online as well as BBC news - see http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article7046866.ece

Reported by met police was 'inconclusive' PM results? TV presenter Kristian Digby died after 'solo sex game went wrong' Really quite annoying is this Times headline! it then goes on to say 'inconclusive' thought the Times was better than the trash journalism this reaks of. This young man died, he is hardly cold and national newspapers are headlining speculation? The means by which he met his end are irrelevant, they make me sick :-(

aol are also stating re:  died after 'solo sex game went wrong'

The means by which he met his end are irrelevant, they make me sick 

No you are very wrong.

If he was practicing something which is so VERY dangerous then it is totally wrong and so cannot he should not be portrayed as squeekly clean.

It's so very sad, and if this is how he died then it should prove as a warning to others. These 'acts' must seem so bizarre I'm sure to the majority of people, but we hear of these tragedies over and over.
I do think it should be confirmed before the tabloid headlines can print it though.

I find all the conjecture about the way he died sad - his family, who have to live with his loss, must find it devastating.

The death of any young person is sad - Kristian Digby seemed to be a very pleasant person and his family will I hope find some consolation in the tributes that have been paid to him.

> It's so very sad, and if this is how he died then it should prove as a warning to others

This is so very true, we were discussing it at work today and it seems a small number of famous people have died in very similar circumstances.. People who are participating in an act like this must know of the consequences and its not what your average person partakes in either..I doubt he would of wanted to end up this way if this is the truth of the matter..

Maybe its a bit harsh to have it blasted all over the news for us all to take in, but you just don't know what his family want... My thoughts are very much with all those people close to him..

> People who are participating in an act like this must know of the consequences and its not what your average person partakes in either..

If so may celebs die of it, then that indicates many non-celebs must be doing it too. It's not a celebrity disease. Many celebs also die from drugs... allegedly... but a lot of non-celebs die from drugs as well. Lots of 'average' people take drugs.

I think it's wholly irresponsible for one newspaper to speculate on his cause of death so soon. I hope if it isn't correct, the paper gets not only its pants sued off, but its genitals as well. Kristian Digby deserves some respect in death, whatever his life may have contained.

I do think they should keep the typical shock, horror headlines to themselves until they have confirmation that this indeed was the case. 

It was a sexual accident why oh why do they try these things.  He was very talented.

As I said before, this sort of 'act' seems very bizarre to most of us, but to others, whether famous or the man/women next door, it's a way of getting that extra thrill. Who's to say what's normal or weird. It's certainly not a new thing. Just very sad for everybody when accidents happen.

Well said arched. Its just so sad that being someone in the media it is being made so public  and must be awful for his family.

I do think they should keep the typical shock, horror headlines to themselves until they have confirmation that this indeed was the case

Exactly Thankyou

Who's to say what's normal or weird.

I think most people have an in-built sense of what comes within the range of normal behaviour.

True, but it doesn't say it's right to broadcast it before it's even been investigated. I lost a close friend a few months ago in an accident - the papers said it was murder, which piled grief upon grief for his friends and loved ones, but the inquest is still not done (and no funeral either which hurts beyond belief). So I understand how media supposition can hurt the closest, without care for the feelings of those close to the deceased.

I had a younger brother that was involved ina fracas at a party, the local rag said he was vicious. After the trial my brother was cleared and a few months later was killed in an accident. The paper did not report the trial verdict that he was the only one cleared, wrong place at the wrong time. It remains a sore point with My dad and remaining brother since 1977!

But bad news sells papers.

It really riles me. A simple *accidental death* would suffice - how horrid for his family and friends.

how horrid for his family and friends.

Just throwing this out to anyone who can answer.

I don't understand how everything to do with our health in life is confidental and that doctors have to swear a hippocratic oath, the same as psychiatrists etc all governed by their own oaths and only a warrant can release information, even when ill in hospital only close realtives can know our symptoms, yet in death somehow journalists and the public seem to be allowed to know everything.

Why is cause of death open to the public, unless someone is murdered, that I can understand?

If family or courts give permission that is different and perhaps with a celebrity or someone of importance Royalty for instance it is understandable why the public would wish to know. But in cases like this I don't believe that family give permission for cause of death to be given to the public, so where does everything go wrong, why is it always in the newspapers?

I've never understood this. Perhaps it is a crack that should be filled.

>Why is cause of death open to the public

Cause of death is a legal requirement on the death certificate, which is a public document.

That was quick!!! ;-)

clicked post by accident.

I guess there are all sorts of reasons people in history etc why it is a public document. It is just so sad in cases like this.

Anyone can go to the Register Office and order a copy of a death certificate and see the cause of death. It's been the same since 1837. How would you otherwise limit who is allowed to know the cause of death ?? Just the immediate next of kin - ie wife, or should children be allowed to know, or brother/sister, cousins, friends ?? It can sometimes identify a suspicious death when cause of death is made public.

Daisy

> Why is cause of death open to the public, unless someone is murdered, that I can understand?

In the case of my friend who was murdered, the police said nothing. It was the media who first said 'murder' - extremely upsetting to find out that way. Beforehand we'd thought it was an accident. We still don't know the official cause of death, and as I said, there's been no funeral.
Death certificates aren't made public until after a certain amount of time.