Donor Steps Up to Help Pay Costs for Haim's Funeral

Corey Haim is to be laid to rest on Tuesday in Toronto, the Toronto Star reports. The owner of a memorabilia company, Startifacts, has stepped forward to donate $20,000 towards the costs of bringing the body home, and the funeral and burial.

I'm sort of sad that it appears that none of the Hollywood stars who are claiming to be friends and admirers are helping. I hear varying things about Haim's family, and perhaps there isn't as much sympathy for them, but still, the cost of a burial is pocket change for some of these people. What about Charlie Sheen, his costar from Lucas, the highest paid sitcom actor on television (not that he doesn't have his own bills to pay right now, but still)? Charlie's problems with substance abuse are beyond well-documented; you would think he might have some sympathy. Haim's problems don't make him less deserving of a proper burial.

I hope that there doesn't end up with some big outcry in Toronto if the city pays for the burial plot. That's next to nothing, and it doesn't deserve some huge backlash. From all reports, Haim was a good guy who, as Corey Feldman put it, never did anything to hurt anyone but himself. Let him rest in peace at home.

Corey Haim Dead at 38

I wasn't a real fan of "The Coreys". My  teenage crushes pre-NKOTB (do NOT judge me!) leaned more towards River Phoenix, Chad Allen and Sean Astin.

Still, I remember going to see License to Drive in the theatre purely because 16 magazine (or maybe Bop?) told me that The Coreys were absolutely dreamy in it. I remember watching Dream a Little Dream and just SO not getting it. Pretty much any movie that either of them were in, I had to see.

I also remember reading all of the articles in Tiger Beat (or was it Big Boppper?) about how The Coreys didn't do drugs, so neither should I. I was young, and I was naive, and I believed it. After all, how could someone so young and so cute be a drug addict?

Of course, I was wrong. Both of The Coreys later admitted to drug problems, but it was Corey Haim who sadly couldn't overcome them. There are some pictures of him out there from the past decade that are just plain sad, to tell the truth. Bloated, overweight and looking like someone you might pass sitting on Queen St. West with a sign asking for spare change.

He seemed to want it so badly: the acceptance and the success, but he just couldn't quite get it. And honestly, when faced with that kind of rejection, who wouldn't go back to the one thing that made you feel better, even if only superficially?

I just feel sad right now. There is nothing more I hate than to see a life wasted, and this was truly a life wasted.