If You Could Prevent 5 Musicians Death?

Jerry Garcia
Duane Allman
Jimi Hendrix
Karen Carpenter
Mozart

Whitney Houston
Amy Winehouse
Karen Carpenter
Cass Elliott
Freddie Mercury

Good lists by all of you.
I would add Tom Petty. What a goddamn loss!

Drinking can be bad, I admit it but fuck hard drugs. Leave those pills alone, don’t do it. have a few cocktails instead. Much safer.

Frank Zappa - no secret I'm a big fan, but he was still evolving musically, and becoming a bigger social and political voice.
Jimi Hendrix - no telling what effect he would have had on music. He was slated to have a meeting with Gil Evans about a collaboration weeks after his death.
Donny Hathaway - wasn't even near his peak.
Eyedea (Michael Larsen) - my personal goat freestyler was still branching out musically.
D. Boon of the Minutemen - again a major influential force cut short after releasing a revolutionary album.

Honorable mention: Gram Parsons

Kurt Cobain
Janis Joplin

Jim Morrison
Kurt cobain
Jimmy hendrix
Brad knowly (sublime singer)
MCA (Beastie boys)

So hard to narrow it down to 5...I can't do it:

1) Buddy Holly
2) Jimi Hendrix
3) Duane Allman
4) Jim Croce/Murray Muehleisen
5) Elvis Presley
6) Karen Carpenter
7) John Denver
8) Michael Hedges
9) Philippé "Soul Walker" Wynne (lead singer of The Spinners)
10) Kurt Cobain

A lot of good people mentioned. I'd probably add Michael Hutchence.