OK, we get it – God hates famous people. That’s why he’s so busy killing them all at the moment.

But still, DJ AM? He’d already been through enough, hadn’t he? Not only did he barely survive a plane crash not so long ago, but he was also once engaged to Nicole Richie. That’s too much misery for any man to take, surely.

So maybe that’s why sources are claiming that DJ AM’s death this weekend was suicide. It’s an assumption backed up by all the OxyContin found in his body and the crack pipe that he died next to. Like we said, depressing.

Death has been playing some cruel tricks on celebrities over the last few months, bumping several of them off in the most bizarre circumstances possible. Sure, some were killed by old age or lengthy battles with disease – but others have been dispatched with sudden heart attacks or enormous doses of medical-grade anaesthetic or a shoelace, some ladies’ underwear and a Bangkok cupboard. And then there’s DJ AM, whose death this weekend was just miserable.

Previously famous for being engaged to Nicole Richie and for narrowly escaping the plane crash that almost killed him and Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, DJ AM was found dead in his apartment on Friday, lying on a pile of crack next to a crack pipe. And, while his family is maintaining that the death was accidental, some sources are claiming that the presence of OxyContin in his system hints towards a suicide. MSNBC reports:

Authorities investigating the death of DJ AM have found that he had eight undigested OxyContin pills in his stomach and a ninth in his mouth. The finding suggests that DJ AM — real name Adam Goldstein — swallowed the powerful painkillers quickly. “He wanted to die,” says the source, who says the suicide theory is supported by the pills and other evidence. “He was going unconscious when he took the last one. He didn’t even swallow it.”

Autopsy and toxicology reports into DJ AM’s death haven’t been released yet, but even when they are it’s unclear if they’ll be able to solidify exactly what happened in the days and hours before he died.

Upsettingly, DJ AM has just become one more celebrity who’s managed to die during 2009. It’s worrying, not only because of the human trauma and suffering that DJ AM’s death will cause to those close to him, but also because – if the pattern holds up like it has been – by Christmas the most famous person on the planet will be the one out of Westlife that looks a bit like a horse.

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