Heath Ledger recently said he felt good about dying

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Heath Ledger recently said he felt good about dying, now that he was a parent, because he was alive in his daughter, Matilda.
But at the same time, the Australian actor, who died in New York today, said he wanted to be around for the rest of the two-year-old's life.
Asked about being a parent he said: "I guess you're forced into kind of respecting yourself more, you learn more about yourself through your child, I guess," he told WJW FOX in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Ledger was found naked on the floor near the bed in an apartment in SoHo that he had been renting. Police officials said that a bottle of prescription sleeping pills was found on a nearby night table, but it was not known whether the pills had anything to do with Mr. Ledger’s death. Officers who checked the apartment found other prescription medications in the bathroom. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office said an autopsy would be conducted on Wednesday. The police said they did not suspect foul play. There were no signs that Mr. Ledger had been drinking, nor were any illegal drugs found in the loft, which takes up the entire fourth floor. No obvious indications of suicide, like a note, were found in the bedroom. Neighbors said Mr. Ledger had occupied it for several months.
A related article by Bruce Lambert describes the crowds that gathered outside the building in SoHo as news of Mr. Ledger’s death quickly made its way across New York. (More than 1,110 comments have been published so far on The Times’s initial blog post about Mr. Ledger’s death.)
Mr. Ledger broke up last year with the actress Michelle Williams; the couple have a 2-year-old daughter, Matilda. Citing unnamed sources, The Daily News reports that Ms. Williams had ejected Mr. Ledger from their home in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, “because of a drug problem that only got worse after he left.” The News also reports that in addition to the sleeping pills, the police found bottles of the anti-anxiety drug Valium and the antidepressant Zoloft in the SoHo apartment. A related article in The News examines the stunned reactions of Mr. Ledger’s neighbors in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The New York Post reports that Mr. Ledger “apparently overdosed on anti-anxiety pills.” Citing unnamed sources, The Post reports that bottles of the generic forms of Xanax and Valium, both anti-anxiety drugs prescribed for Mr. Ledger, were found in the apartment; that the prescription sleeping medication Ambien was found near Mr. Ledger’s body; and that a bottle of Donormyl, an antihistamine used as a sleep aid, and a packet of the drug Zopiclone, used for insomnia, were found on the nightstand. The Post also provides an overview of Mr. Ledger’s acting career and a portrait of the life Mr. Ledger and Ms. Williams had shared with their daughter in Brooklyn