Anthony Bourdain found dead in France, apparent suicide

You are completely correct, and while I am sad he has passed, I am angry that he chose to do this. It's profoundly damaging to a child and beyond forgiveness, in my opinion.

 

A worldsman?

You mean a globalist?

A frenchman is a somali is a hourandouran is a muslim is a whatever?

Not where laws and national boundaries are concerned

Why did he kill himself?

 

absolutely believe that, but I'll die satisfied in the knowledge that in 15 yrs time that half of the under educated illogical bigoted boomer generation will be dead and gone and no longer blight humanity with their unforgivable ignorance...in 15 yrs the political power of the despicable will gone replaced by educated and logical post boomer generations...

 

I’m probably younger than you. But millions of young people are waking up to what progressivism is all about and who is benefitting from it. People can’t pretend to be ignorant about race anymore. Once society continues polarizing and balkanizing around it, it’ll only increase this awakening process. If and when progressivism wins, the country will resemble Haiti at worst, Brazil/Mexico at best. And then a better civilization will take over and hopefully not repeat the same mistakes.

 

It didnt appeal to unsophisticated rubes

 

Its a funny thing

When drug soaked hippies were running around naied at Woodstock liberals were CONVINCED that they were going to be the the first socialist leftwing crazy majority

But instead they grew up

It will be harder to save the current snowflake generation

But not impossible

 

Yeah but doesn't he really have in mind the 90% he wants to die and the 10% he wants to live?

 

Advocating murder is rather like taking hemlock.
It will poison your mind, and may even kill you.

 

To me(a conservative), Bourdains "Hemlock" statement is a tiny scratch on an awesome paint job, which you wouldn't even notice were no one to draw your attention to it. His body of work is extensive. And there is nobody else like him. His apparent suicide leaves me mostly stunned and saddened.

 

Bourdain's show was very good, but his life must have really sucked.

 

11 to 13 are crucial years for young girls and tragedies like this can leave them scarred for life.

 

Bourdain was very unpersuasive and thus harmless when he drifted into politics or political philosophy.
He was very good at showing his audience how to enjoy the best things in cities and towns around the world.
Strasbourg may have become too depressing for him to endure.

 

a person can be a billionaire and have everything they could possibly want but none of that matters if they suffer from depression, depression has no respect for wealth or circumstance...suffers can sometimes learn to cope with depression but they can never defeat it, it's always just under the surface waiting to reappear...

 

Very often people with severe depression believe that their family is better of without them.

 

They are not open and worldly enough to relate to his view of the world. Bordain was not a hate monger of foreigners and exotic places. He also was respectful of women with a huge female following.

 

often yes...but when they get to depth of depression that Robin Williams, Kate Spade and Bourdain reach they're not really thinking much about anyone else, they just want their pain to end...

 

Does anyone know if there was a note? And has foul play been definitely ruled out?

 

No they didn’t..I love when people tell other people what they think

 

Most people have roots in their own countries and societies. They understandly wouldn’t be as cosmopolitan as someone like Bourdain.

 

He would be extremely selfish is it wasn't for the depression.

Not the temporary state that every human can experience, but the mental illness.

He was a high functioning individual with an, at times, debilitating illness. Suffering from depression is like riding a toilet seat, up and down on no particular schedule. After the fact, a depressive episode was but a moment in time, during the episode it is eternity itself and it ain't a pretty picture.

 

no just ignorance of the mental illness called depression. Its unfortunate its called the same thing what really feeling sad is called by "normal" people. It aint even remotely close. So many think that you can just "snap out of it" or "pull yerself up by your bootstraps" or "just think happy thoughts" is all that is necessary.

That is why I choose to believe that those that lack sympathy are just ignorant of the facts.

 

Its insidious. Its pernicious. Its debilitating and its a gigantic pain in the ass.

And yes I speak from direct and all too painful experience. Its can also hereditary, as in my case. (Although never seriously contemplated offing myself).

 

I thought post partum depression was made up and hyped....as my experience with depression was that it could be dealt with by just a change of behavior or adjustment of attitude.

Then I quit smoking and months later the change to my non nicotined brain put me into abyss that only anti depressents could fix, and it was a strong lesson that there is such a thing as biological, extreme depression that has nothing to do with your external world. It's not something to take lightly.

 

An atheist who wallowed in abject materialism and globalism killed himself despite having riches and fame... shocking.

 

As the dictionary defines the term, genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group. The key word there is deliberate, meaning that genocide requires acting with the specific intent of killing off a group of people. There's no such intent when white people breed with brown people. Just as almost no white person (I say almost because I'm not ruling out you) thinks about "preserving their race" when having sex. I would be surprised to learn that's a big turn on for some people.