Pop/jazz singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London flat this weekend at the age of 27—just hours after her manager announced the Grammy-winning singer wouldn’t be performing at any concerts for the foreseeable future. While an autopsy didn’t shed any immediate light on the cause of death, given Winehouse’s very public struggles with alcohol and drugs, most suspected booze and drugs killed the singer. “In the weeks and months to come, there undoubtedly will be a torrent of tributes to Winehouse, placing her in the pantheon of all-time great musicians,” writes USA Today‘s Bruce Kluger, a father of two teenage girls, “but I would prefer to linger a little longer on the sad way she checked out. Because if there’s one positive thing that came from Amy Winehouse’s death—and given her enormous gifts as a musician, there’s precious little about her demise that can be defined as uplifting—it’s that, perhaps, the shocking inevitability of her passing scared our kids a bit, or at least long enough to make them think about their own choices in life.” (USA Today)