Anthony Bourdain has died in an apparent suicide by hanging at 61 - male suicide continues to rise

Chumpnzee · 2018-06-08T12:59:23+00:00

MSM claims that it is toxic masculinity that drives men to suicide, in other words, the stereotypical old stoic macho strong quiet traditional misogynist homophobic man is the most likely to commit suicide because his pride is preventing him from seeking help.

Now, does the description "stereotypical old stoic macho strong quiet traditional misogynist homophobic man" apply to Bourdain?

TwoTonJoe · 2018-06-08T16:00:36+00:00

"Just get help" they say.

It's 100% not that easy, nor is it cost effective, and that's a real tragedy. I struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts for many years, but I was a single father with sole custody of two children and for me, getting help would have resulted in exposure that I wasn't ready for.

My fear was that if I was honest with an analyst, they'd see me as a risk and then I'd potentially have my kids taken from me while I was placed in some sort of clinic. I went to a couple of counseling sessions which had a LOT of questions I didn't want to answer honestly (do you have guns/weapons in the home, do you self-medicate, etc), and it was costing me $40 a visit even with my insurance, and they didn't have office hours outside of my work schedule (I'd lose work time with each session), so there were few reasons for me to continue.

I'm fortunate enough to have made it through the worst of it. Many aren't. This is a very real problem in America, even moreso for men, and it's got to be addressed seriously.

no_condoments · 2018-06-08T13:02:24+00:00

By hanging? That's not a great way to go.

jeff_the_nurse · 2018-06-08T16:09:07+00:00

And CNN said the fact that Anthony and Kate having both killed themselves is proof that suicide does not discriminate. Wow.

jimba22 · 2018-06-08T11:52:54+00:00

Damn.. was it known that he was struggling?

Elitriak · 2018-06-08T17:01:01+00:00

His wife was cheating on him with a French journalist : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5807979/Asia-Argento-embraces-Hugo-Clement-shared-attack-Harvey-Weinstein-Cannes.html

StoicRadiant · 2018-06-08T12:48:38+00:00

So long as the state of mental health care remains the sames, the rate will continue to rise.

killerklancy · 2018-06-08T13:08:19+00:00

Man he was a charismatic man. This sucks

Rishx · 2018-06-08T16:49:50+00:00

I hate when media portrays women's problems as an epidemic. While men are completely ignored. We have higher suicide rates than women and lower life expectancy, still, we are treated like shit. Hopefully, we are starting to see some changes and maybe future is not as dark for men as we conceived it to be.

EnigmaticSmegma · 2018-06-08T12:33:29+00:00

The fact that this has surprised so many people goes to show just how much some people feel pressure to keep their thoughts and feelings to themselves. They want to make it seem like everything's alright and that they can deal with all of their own problems so it can be very difficult to reach out for help.

Cosmospatootie · 2018-06-08T17:28:42+00:00

I am 60 and wake up every night thinking about ending it . I used to have money and a job . Now I haven 2 special needs children who are 18 I don’t know how they will survive . Lost everything I ever worked for thanks Clinton /Bush /Obama’s bankster buddies in the housing theft . After 47 years of hard physical labor I get fucked in the ass by my own country .

ThePigmanAgain · 2018-06-09T01:21:17+00:00

I'll bet Asia Argento gets more sympathy than he does.

ImTooCozy · 2018-06-09T02:32:21+00:00

Judging by the woman he was dating (a feminist), he didn't swallow the red pill. Pictures of her holding hands with another man in Italy came out the day before he killed himself.

thrway_1000 · 2018-06-08T15:38:25+00:00

Suicide is sometimes the only option for suffering.

Archive -- https://archive.is/bNMh9

GanasbinTagap · 2018-06-08T17:37:52+00:00

maybe I should join him

MakeTotalDestr0i · 2018-06-08T13:53:15+00:00

my suicide radar told me bourdain was a candidate a long time ago. he had a dark cloud over him from the start

IcebergHermit · 2018-06-08T18:55:34+00:00

Sometimes we should remind ourselves to stay alive for SELFISH reasons - which is fine. If my plans back in 2015 has succeeded I would never have seen the Capitals win the cup last night!

cloudbuster23 · 2018-06-08T17:32:56+00:00

I don't mourn the loss of people who call for white people to go extinct.

blove135 · 2018-06-08T16:57:23+00:00

I seem to remember reading that he had a heroin addiction many years ago before he became famous. I wonder if he relapsed and just couldn't see a way out this time.

_ghet_rhaped_ · 2018-06-08T15:42:45+00:00

Am in the only one who can't fathom why someone in his position, and with his wealth would kill himself?

USADANK · 2018-06-08T17:44:17+00:00

He had information that could lead to hillary clinton's arrest

whitey_sorkin · 2018-06-09T00:46:02+00:00

"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."

David Foster Wallace

Zyklon_Bae · 2018-06-09T02:49:18+00:00

Dude had it made in the shade..I'm thinking it was auto-erotic asphyxiation.

smfuel87 · 2018-06-08T18:53:04+00:00

Funny enough, I logged in to make my way to the r/depression board when I saw this. Im just shocked. Close to crying. I was never really a fan of him, but to think that another man succumbed to this bullshit just throws me through a loop. He was a person like anyone else, but our culture seems to not give a shit. Just to imagine the mental pain this guy succumbed to. I feel I know exactly the root cause of this fuckery and I think you do too so I don't have to rant about it here, but Jesus...Robin, Chester, now Anthony and tens of thousands more...who the fuck next? Our leadership needs to wake up to this, but I have a hunch this is either exactly what they want or is a byproduct they're willing to live with to achieve other political and economic means and have no intentions of making moves to change. This could easily be me or you, however I for one am determined to not off myself in hopes of seeing a day worth fighting to overturn this horseshit.

coconut-cake · 2018-06-08T21:28:16+00:00

What the F#%K! Damn :(

the_unseen_one · 2018-06-08T23:09:59+00:00

Fuck, this really ruined my day. I used to always watch his show "No Reservations"; it was what opened my mind to the idea that there was more than just the Southwest. There's a whole world of people, cities, wildlife, food, and wonders out there beyond my little town. I loved watching it, and I really liked him because he wasn't glossy and fake happy all the time, but seemed kind of tore up, pissed off, and generally damaged, which I identified with a lot more than I would have liked to. I also struggle with wanting to kill myself, a lot, and it's really sad he finally lost that struggle after all these years. I usually never care about celebrity deaths, but this one hurts.

maya0nothere · 2018-06-09T04:20:16+00:00

Perhaps Anthony needed to see a homeless man who had no legs riding a bike, to stop feeling bad about himself.

RatMan29 · 2018-06-08T18:07:37+00:00

Bourdain had just taken Hillary Clinton publicly to task over accepting support from Harvey Weinstein, and just said he had info that may lead to her arrest. I think he just got added to the long list of people who have mysteriously died after pissing off Hillary di Medici.

RobAlter · 2018-06-08T23:19:28+00:00

or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_asphyxiation

Pathfinder24 · 2018-06-08T14:57:08+00:00

This isn't really a men's rights issue.

Title	Anthony Bourdain has died in an apparent suicide by hanging at 61 - male suicide continues to rise
Author	patcomen
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Date	June 8, 2018 11:50 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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