RIP Anthony Bourdain
 

Dead at 61 per various media outlets

New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61.

CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.

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

Reports of suicide on twitter (blocked at work).

RIP. That's pretty young but I think he got a full lifes worth in during his time. I'll certainly never visit as many places as he did. I read kitchen confidential and enjoyed it.

Wow.

RIP.

That sucks. Unfortunately its not all that surprising.

An 11yo daughter. How do you even?

Holy. Shit. I enjoyed his parts unknown and no reservations shows. Always wondered if he might actually do it. He could m switch from being an arrogant bastard to one of the most sincere in the flash of an eye. Think he might have been bipolar.

RIP

I saw a commercial advertising for a new show with him in it coming soon. Guy had a very good gig. Or or least thats the way it appeared. Suicide is on the rise in the USA even though this happened in France

Damn.

RIP

Damn another suicide.

My mother always told me if you ever feel like killing yourself just wait till tomorrow.

Not sure what could bring a person to that point.

Sad. Life is precious.

Well, damn. RIP

Why do today that can wait til tomorrow? Wasn’T that Mark Twain?

Just because they are not a fashion designer or on TV...................


22 Veterans commit suicide every day. Every single day.

That is crazy.

This is really shocking to me.

You look from the outside and you see Kate Spade and now Anthony Bourdain and you think they have EVERYTHING to live for; children, success, fame, business, money, family, love and yet they take their own lives as there is something missing.

Really hard to digest when people like this take their lives while people with NOTHING to live for go through live not complaining about anything: people with no limbs, no money, homeless, cancer for many many years, all types of problems yet they plow through.

The human condition is so strange and so little we truly know yet......

R.I.P.

god dammit. I understand when you are younger and more emotional suicide seems like a great option but at his age unless you have a terminal illness or recently committed a horrific crime why the **** would you kill yourself. you know better..I just don't get it.

You and your mother apparently had some interesting conversations.

Then again, you used to jack off pigs for a living.

I speculate that poor mental health factors into a lot of suicides. Mental states that age and success alone can't overcome.

It's perfectly fine to commit suicide - chiefsplanet

Were they saying that in general or just to you?

His show was pretty much the only thing worth watching on CNN these days.

I had 3 co-workers commit suicide. They were getting help. They seemed normal at work and then they go home and commit suicide. All 3 had survivors guilt and or having their friends die with their blood all over themselves.

I did some research on the why. In this case above its the easiest to explain. Trauma from war. But the other explanations are all over the place. Basically, their minds are not thinking like ours. Thats why its hard for us to understand. They feel an overwhelming pressure for different reasons. None would cause us to commit suicide. The best "reason" I've seen is that there is some kind of chemical imbalance in their brains.

Guy was an addict. Lived fast and you could tell from his writing and some shows he had issues dealing with people.

There is help out there. Suicide is not an answer.

glass houses

RIP

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I should amend my statement above to say I was referring to celebrities killing them selves. Whatever problems they think they are having is made up in their head and not real world issues that most of us face. They need to get some perspective, help and realize their life doesn't suck.

Its not celebrity or being rich proof. They have done many studies on this issue. People who are hungry, poor, homeless, no job and or have no family don't commit suicide at a significant rate greater than the rest of the population.

Not even Bourdain could make me watch CNN. I loved No Reservations, though.

RIP

They're dropping like flies.

A Witty intelligent man. What a senseless loss.

His show on CNN is maybe the most important show on television today. Want out of us vs them mentality, he was showing the way.

Right on cue^^^

Gotta admit, I did not see this coming. While I didnt align well with him politically in some areas I loved "No Reservations" and "Parts Unknown" and his overall personality.

Wow!

Can I have his job? Seemed like kinda a sweet gig.

Things must have went downhill after Sons of Anarchy ended.

Maybe he was distraught over Kate Spade?

Very sad. I'm even more shocked he chose to do this in France given his very close friendship with Eric Ripert who found him.

Woe, really? Loser.

https://justindleader.com/wp-content...04/Buh-Bye.jpg

Wow, I didn't know that last part. That is horrific! They were best buddies. :(

I wouldn't watch CNN if they had a show with big titted strippers shooting AR-15s.

Drama queen much?

The way out of the us vs them mentality is to eat chocolate covered crickets in some far eastern jungle.

Anyone have a spare VP to English decoder ring?

You've obviously not watched his shows in a long time. They were more about people than eating. Eating and travel was just a means to bring people together. His recent episode on West Virginia was frankly amazing filmmaking.

He's saying...

Wow, I didn't realize that. Leaving an 11yo behind like that makes AB a loser. So "buh bye" loser who bailed on a young daughter."

Yeah, you're right. I haven't seen him recently or much at all. I was just joking really. I've heard quite a few people say they liked his shows although I was apparently under the false impression that weird foods were the focus.

take a watch. I just told someone a couple of days ago I wish he would branch out into longer documentaries as their work has been fantastic.


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6inwh4

Are you fluent in jive too?

That's what I took from it as well.

He was going thru some things

Because the rest of us aren't. We all just coast thru life. He had to deal with things

By all outside appearances this was a person who had a full life and lived a never-ending string of adventures. And yet he still found at the end of all of that, that his life didn't have a meaning or purpose that he could live for. Sad. Just shows you that you've got to have something bigger than yourself.

^

Didn't seem all that cryptic.

I hope it's not too early, but are they hiring a replacement for his job? I'm kind of interested.

That's Andrew Zimmern.

Has literally nothing to do with any of that.

People with suicidal thoughts, or who commit suicide, have a brain that is betraying them. Chemical imbalance, whatever the issue, thoughts start that tell you that you are better off gone, that no one will miss you, and that everyone will be better off if you are gone.

People think it's a selfish act, and maybe sometimes it is. I think most of the time it is just the mind betraying them.

Prayers for his family.

But I am growing weary of society's emphasis on celebrities' deaths. It is not the worst year ever because a ton of celebrities passed away.

****ing hell.

I had no idea it was that high. That will ruin a guy's day.

But who's gonna' make overpriced purses or eat chicken feet?

Any word on Guy Fieri?

Goddam this sucks. I loved Bourdain.

LMAO Nice.

Basically... depression and mental health is a real problem. Doesn't matter if you have a great family etc that shit catches up to you. Their brains are definitely not acting normal. Sad loss, and I've dealt with suicide up close and still living with survivors guilt.

Beautiful.

Speaking as someone who was suicidal during the teenage years and did attempt it at least once, I know for me there wasn't this grand plan about it. Something would happen and this switch would just flip in my head and I would think everything would be better if I was dead. It was almost a spur of the moment thing. At that point I wasn't thinking logically or in touch with reality where I thought death was the best option in solving whatever issue flipped that switch even though that issue was incredibly minor.

Thankfully, I have grown out of that even though from time to time the thoughts still creep in but I am able to dismiss them.

You have to understand that with people with the suicidal ideation when that trigger goes off in their mind, they aren't thinking rationally or logically.

Damn. I'm glad you made it through and are here with us today.

Preferred to them murdering someone. Imagine when the first celebrity decides to gun down his studio audience.


Would be interesting to know what meds he was on. I believe a lot of celebrity deaths are tied to the side effects of them.

Thanks. It just bugs me when people who haven't had that mental issue try and blame the person who did commit suicide by giving rational reasons to why they shouldn't of.

The fact is that people who do commit suicide like this simply are not thinking rationally. Their thought process only sees the positive of suicide and won't let them compare positives or negatives of the act. Hell, it will spin negatives into positives.

I didnt even know he still had a show then I read CNN. Even so he will be missed I liked his old show RIP i guess but how anyone does this having a 11 yo is beyond me.

ROFL

Yep.

Sad news. RIP.

Glad you're still with us, man. That's my biggest fear is my brain betrays me. My body isn't worth a shit, so my brain needs to be.

No way. I've thought that for years about his show. Maybe in the future folks will talk about the cultural importance of it.

It was refreshing to see a show that showed humanity, and that we need not fear each other.

I'm tired of everything else on tv being us vs them. That shit is killing us.

I don't know. My grandfathers body went before his mind did and it was a long slow march to the inevitable with him becoming more cranky as the years passed on because he couldn't do what he used to do. He spent the last half year of his life bed ridden and it was terrible to see him like that.

My grandmother on the other side is going through the same thing.

I would rather be broke, sleeping on the side of the rode, waiting until I scrounge up enough money to get drunk off of the Walgreens mouthwash than to take my life. But that is easy to say as someone that doesn't suffer from clinical depression. My mom has had issues with it and it obviously can be devastating.

Hmmm...
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