OT: RIP Anthony Bourdain

[purplefaithful]

RIP

Sadly, suicide rates in this country are strongly trending the wrong way

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthon...index.html

[Guest]

Wow...shocking.  He seemed to love what he was doing but I guess he also suffered from mental illness (assumption) which you can not control well.  I am shocked.  Article talks about our increasing suicide rate in the this country of 25%!!!

[Guest]

Lots of hopelessness now. I see it in generations behind mine that I never saw in mine or my parents. He is my generation though. Nobody immune to it I guess. Very sad, especially for the ones who loved you. 
RIP

[Guest]

I've often said that if I could have any job in the world it would be Anthony Bourdain's. I suspect only matters of the heart could make a man check out of a life that allows him to travel all over the world eating exotic foods in places like Shanghai and drinking rice shots with locals in Laos....

He had an 11-year old daughter. Kate Spade had a 13-year old daughter. That's what boggles my mind. 

[Guest]

@MaroonBells said:
I've often said that if I could have any job in the world it would be Anthony Bourdain's. I suspect only matters of the heart could make a man check out of a life that allows him to travel all over the world eating exotic foods in places like Shanghai and drinking rice shots with locals in Laos....

He had an 11-year old daughter. Kate Spade had a 13-year old daughter. That's what boggles my mind. 

I couldnt have picked him out of a lineup of 2,  never seen his show and only vaguely recognize the name,  but it sounds like the man drank up life and loved to be on the move seeing, experiencing and trying new things,  I would also suspect some sort of debilitating illness could send this type of person to that point of despair.

[Guest]

I could be wrong... but it is my opinion that the same "elements" that are driving more and more people to kill themselves... is the same thing that drives people to kill others.  I don't want this to turn political in any way, so I'll just leave it at this: treating the symptoms is never going to bring about a cure.

[Guest]

WOW shocking.  Loved him and his show.   What a huge loss.

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Stunningly sad news.

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My dear lifelong friend lost her daughter to suicide. She died 10 days before her 20th birthday. Her entire life was burdened with mental illness and she struggled mightily to get through every day. Her parents worked night and day to save their child, but in the end it was for naught. She wasn't into drugs or alcohol and she didn't have a sudden life-changing tragedy occur prior to her death. She was, simply, mentally ill. It makes no sense but also makes plenty of sense. It's torture.
My son has Asperger's syndrome and has been labeled off and on throughout his life with various diagnoses from behavioral disorder NOS, bipolarism, ADD, ADHD, ODD, and schizophrenia. He's doing quite well now, much better than 3 years ago. I worry about him so much that at times I have panic attacks which I never had as a young person. You learn to live life 1 day at a time for sure. You focus all your energy on getting them through life and doing everything you can to keep them motivated about life because they can stop being motivated without warning.
I'm a medical transcriptionist and the number of people who come into the hospital on a daily basis for mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues is so staggering you don't even want to know about it.

[Guest]

Depression isn't you get over. You can't beat it by reflecting on how great your life is or everything you have going for you. Depression is the nagging battle inside that tells you that you are the problem and until you rid you of yourself things will never get better.