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Anthony Bourdain dead at 61

 
 
 
Suicide?
Damn.
My money had been on 'knifed in a cramped kitchen' by someone he was criticizing...

Dammit.
 
I can't imagine what he was going through that caused him to want to take his life.

He seemed to have a pretty cool life.
 
Depression. Doesn't really matter what your circumstances are, it'll make make you feel like garbage regardless. 100% chemical imbalance, 0% to do with reality.
 
Keith&Co. said:
Suicide?
Damn.
My money had been on 'knifed in a cramped kitchen' by someone he was criticizing...

Dammit.
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My first thought was, was it something he ate? Then I was really bummed, seemed liked a good guy.
 
rousseau said:
Depression. Doesn't really matter what your circumstances are, it'll make make you feel like garbage regardless. 100% chemical imbalance, 0% to do with reality.
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^^THIS^^

Hopefully his suicide can be used to help teach people that clinical depression and related suicides are not about people being extremely sad about actual events in their lives. They are mostly about biochemical imbalances that cause feelings of hopelessness and dread that have little connection to objective events that typically influence our emotional states in an adaptive and functional way.

His was the only show on CNN or any cable "news" network I watched, and had more important factual, politically relevant info in it than all of them. Also, one of the only celebrity chefs I could stomache.

Too bad he couldn't find the help he needed, but then maybe he tried, but even the best treatments don't work for everyone.
 
Thomas II said:
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Depression seems to be on the rise.
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Suicide rates are increasing all over the nation.

Huh.

It's almost as if decades of helping rich people and large corporations at the expense of everyone else was a bad idea. I thought making life better for the economic elites was supposed to "lift all boats" or something. Isn't that the snake oil the right has been selling since Reagan?
 
Lion IRC said:
Thomas II said:
Depression seems to be on the rise.
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I fear that we are 'normalising' suicide/euthanasia :(
Sad too because he was a foody who so often brought us the joy of comfort food.
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Are you suggesting this is the result of "moving away from God" or something?

If so, why is that suicide rate so much higher here in America where we have higher religiosity than most other industrialized nations?
 
I don't know if Anthony Bourdain held any religious views.
Does anyone know whether he was an atheist?
 
Lion IRC said:
I don't know if Anthony Bourdain held any religious views.
Does anyone know whether he was an atheist?
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Probably.

Tried [religion] and respect it. I respect people that practice as they preach… but hypocritical religious types make me angry… I’m closer to Hitchens’ view on this. Many of the worlds ills can be tracked back to [religion]. That said I’ve worked with and have been treated very well by many lovely people who believe in one god or another and I respect that
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Of course, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League seems quite certain that Bourdain was an atheist:

If Anthony Bourdain had been a religious man, would he have killed himself? Probably not…

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Bourdain was raised by his Catholic father and Jewish mother, though neither of them saw fit to raise him in any religion. In 2011, he said his views on religion were similar to those expressed by Christopher Hitchens, the British atheist.
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Several other Christians are quite certain as well.

Christians Claim Atheist Anthony Bourdain Is Burning In Hell
 
James Brown said:
Probably.



Of course, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League seems quite certain that Bourdain was an atheist:

If Anthony Bourdain had been a religious man, would he have killed himself? Probably not…

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Bourdain was raised by his Catholic father and Jewish mother, though neither of them saw fit to raise him in any religion. In 2011, he said his views on religion were similar to those expressed by Christopher Hitchens, the British atheist.
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Several other Christians are quite certain as well.

Christians Claim Atheist Anthony Bourdain Is Burning In Hell
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Well he's visited all the other places so good for him. I wonder if they are preparing him rare or medium rare, and what the side dishes are?
 
I found him very likable. He seemed very down to earth, very matter-of-fact, but at the same time very thoughtful and aware of the circumstances taking place around him. He also seemed like an average type guy that made it big and didn't let it make him an asshole. Too bad he was in so much pain. My first thought was maybe drugs, I thought he had been pretty heavily into such things at least at one point in his life.
 
braces_for_impact said:
I found him very likable. He seemed very down to earth, very matter-of-fact, but at the same time very thoughtful and aware of the circumstances taking place around him. He also seemed like an average type guy that made it big and didn't let it make him an asshole. Too bad he was in so much pain. My first thought was maybe drugs, I thought he had been pretty heavily into such things at least at one point in his life.
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There was an episode of "No Reservations" where he went back to the restaurant where he made his bones and worked a shift as a line cook. That's a job I used to do (albeit not at the same level) and it stuck with me because he was about 50 at the time, and was brutally honest about how he'd aged out of the job. Restaurant work is hard. Cooks drink hard. And abuse other substances as well. I think if he'd stayed in the business as opposed to writing books about it he'd have been dead a long time ago, and that's what made him appealing to me. He got out, and did what he really loved. I did that, too.
 
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