Anthony Bourdain dead at 61

A victim of suicide. Unlike most in media he showed ordinary people like all of us just trying to get through life and enjoying the things we all have in common. 

What disturbed me most was that with all the people he was surrounded by, no one was deep enough in his life to see the pain. Lets get out of the shallow end of the pool. Go deep. With empathy and compassion. 

amg56
 You carry a heavy load every day and every night. Your daughter is I am sure the last thing you think about when you go to bed and the first thing you think about when you wake up. 

I though this was a good blog from madinamerica  dot com


As “When Noel Hunter said, 45,000 people a year would rather die than live in this world any longer, it might behoove us all to consider what is happening in the world to cause this.” What is happening in the world. One of the main stories we repeat to ourselves is that mental illness causes suicide. We perpetuate this idea that people who take their own lives are sick, perhaps as an unconscious way of attempting to avoid feelings of guilt or regret about what we could have done or who we could have been for the people we’re losing to this public health crisis. It’s almost like neuroscience hasn’t shown us how harmful isolation is for human beings. We then turn right around and express shock that Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain, Robin Williams, etc., were feeling so awful — “they were always so happy” say the people “closest” to them……………..

This from (mad in america .com)