Chris Cornell (Audioslave / Soundgarden) dead at 52

[Mephistopheles Janx]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/new...-died-aged-52/

According to his representative, rocker Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of Soundgarden and later Audioslave, has died at age 52.

In a statement to The Associated Press, Brian Bumbery says Cornell died Wednesday night in Detroit.

Bumbery called the death "sudden and unexpected" and said his wife and family were shocked by it. The statement said the family would be working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause and asked for privacy.

Cornell was still a working musician until very recently, and performed a show hours before he died. He was last pictured by the press was a little over a month ago, at a screening of The Promise in New York with his two daughters.

[Coochie liquor]

Originally Posted by rico

Man... no words.

Did you write that song? It's a fantastic song. Terribly sad story...I can't imagine.

I don't know if I've ever come across a post on CP that has had this effect on me.

Thank you. No, I didnt write that song. It's by Ballyhoo, and he wrote it after his mom died from cancer (I think). Was a band we both liked and saw live a few times. It's a difficult thing to get past. Should never have to bury your child. Luckily my wife and I made it through it after lots of rough times. I'm always worried I'll lose another child since that happened. Really sucks too because most of the time I have to put him out of my memory completely, just to make it through the day. But it's the only way my brain can cope with it I guess. It's still a very fresh wound even though it's been 7+ years.

[Viper400]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

I saw them that tour with Skid Row as well. It was my birthday. After the show we were leaving and walking by the tour buses. The Sound Garden guys were all hanging outside the bus having some beers. My friend mentioned it was my B-day so they gave me a beer and we partied with them.



The Skid guys were dicks except for Bas. He was awesome to the fans. At one point it was Chris, me and Bas standing there having a beer. I was just soaking up the conversation. They were both very funny and had some great stories.



Very sad to hear Chris has passed. He had so much music left in him. Was planning to see them this tour. RIP my friend.

What a memory to have. That's awesome.


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RIP

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Many of us have felt down and thought to ourselves that this is what the lowest of the low feels like and there's no coming back from it. I've felt that way plenty of times. I'd threaten myself with suicide at times, but i knew in the back of my head i'd never do it, no matter how i felt at that moment. I came across this, below. It really put shit into perspective:

http://head-heart-health.com/3583/10...-kill-yourself

Hello Sir

I guess you’re pretty serious about committing suicide if you’re searching for it on the internet. There’s a hell of a lot of information out there but I wanted to tell you ten things you should know before you kill yourself.

First of all, I know you are probably a guy. That’s because 78% of people who take their own lives are male. There are lots of reasons for that, but the main one is that you keep everything bottled up inside you because you’re trying to ‘be there’ for everyone else. You don’t have to you know. Talking about how you’re feeling is the bravest thing a man can ever do. But that’s not why I’m here.

I’m here to tell you what happens next after you decide to end your pain.

ONE (1) :

The person who finds your body is probably your wife or one of your kids. You will have chosen a method that is violent and the image of your dead body with the noose, the gun or the plastic bag will be forever etched on the mind of that person who finds you. It will be the last thing she sees before she goes to sleep and the first image she sees upon waking. It will flash into her mind at random moments and leave her completely traumatised. She will forever associate colours, smells, shapes, and noises with that moment when her life was fractured into pieces.

TWO (2) :

When the police arrive, they will treat your wife as a suspect. Your death will be deemed as ‘suspicious’ and the house will be cordoned off as a crime scene. Ambulances, fire-engines and police cars will line the street. People will crane their necks to see what is going on. Your private decision will become the subject of public speculation. The room where you died will never be able to be used again. There will be stains on the chair, on the carpet, on the walls. Most likely, your family will have to move.

THREE (3) :

Your private life will be raked over by the police who will go through your wallet, your phone and your computer looking for someone to blame for your death. All the while, your wife will be unable to eat or sleep and her tears will make her beautiful eyes haunted and lost.

FOUR (4) :

There will be an autopsy to determine how you died. There will be questions about your relationship, your job, your finances, your health and your drug and alcohol consumption. If you’ve managed to destroy your body in your final act, your wife will have to formally identify you. She will no longer remember you as alive and breathing, she will only remember you lying still, battered and violated on the cold slab of a mortuary.

And all the time, the voice in her head will scream “Why?” That voice never stops.

FIVE (5) :

Your wife won’t be able to work for a long while and the money will run out. It will take months, maybe even years for her to get any sort of payout. And if you haven’t left a will, she will have to prove to the courts that she is entitled to your money. Lawyers will ask if there was another woman, other children, another life. She will have to prove that she was your wife over and over again.

SIX (6) :

Your friends and family will find it difficult to believe that you did this without provocation. They will search for someone to blame. And that person will be your wife. They will whisper that she drove you to it. They will find it hard to be around her. She will have to survive this thing on her own.

SEVEN (7) :

Your wife will blame herself. No matter what the circumstances, she will know that she didn’t love you enough or support you enough to keep you alive. Her sense of failure will overwhelm her. She will relive the last days and hours before your death searching for the moment when she could have made a difference.

EIGHT (8) :

If they report your death in the papers, the journalist will be deliberately vague. You will join the long list of men who have been “found dead”. They will never print the word suicide, but everyone will know what happened.

Bubba Smith, the American football star who found fame on screen playing Hightower in the Police Academy movies, has died at the age of 66. Smith was found dead at his home in Los Angeles. The cause of death has not been confirmed, but police have said it did not appear to be suspicious. ~ BBC News
Even your wife and children will rarely mention the word suicide when telling your story. They will fabricate a lie to cover their shame and hurt. Saying you died of a heart attack is the usual thing.

NINE (9) :

Your son won’t have you around to teach him how to drive. Your daughter will have no-one to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day. Your wife won’t have a safe place to go when her own pain needs soothing. You will miss out on their lives.

TEN (10) :

This pain of losing you doesn’t heal. It eventually gets numbed by the challenge of getting on with life with a part missing, but the thought of you is always just below the surface.

When you take your life, you take the life of your wife, your kids, your parents, your siblings and your friends. There is no choice for them. They have to live with this burden for the rest of their lives. No matter what you’ve done, no matter who you are, no-one will be better off without you.

I’m not here to tell you what to do with your life. It’s up to you. All I want to do is tell you what really happens to those of us left behind.

Sleep on it. Wait until tomorrow. Call someone. Talk.

Stay alive. We need you. We love you more than you’ll ever know.

Excellent !!!

And to Halfcan's and eDave's points and experiences !!!

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

And clearly, you have zero understanding of Clinical Depression.

And you have zero understanding of grief among family and friends and one of those stages is anger and sometimes folks stay in that stage for years. Halfcan still hurts, allow him to hurt in his own timeframe. There are no set rules on how long each stage should be because everyone grieves differently and for different lengths of time.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Bet you a $1 he wishes he was back with his family and friends.



Sure he's not having a good day today.

I've talked to a couple of people who tried to hang themselves but survived & they told me the second they kicked the chair they hoped the rope broke because they saw how great life was in that split second. Thankfully they survived & live to tell their stories.

RIP


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[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

And you have zero understanding of grief among family and friends and one of those stages is anger and sometimes folks stay in that stage for years. Halfcan still hurts, allow him to hurt in his own timeframe. There are no set rules on how long each stage should be because everyone grieves differently and for different lengths of time.

Just shut the **** up, you ****ing quack

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Just because you have dealt with it, doesn't mean you understand it fully as made clear by your posts.

People who hit rock bottom depression do not think about leaving behind family and friends. Their inner pain is too much to bear. This isn't about you, it's about them. Friends and family aren't giving them any feeling of worth either. It's why there is no thought about those they are leaving behind. That's clinical depression.

You are unable to rationalize your friends suicides. I get it. The depressed mind is unable to rationalize it as well. While you see it as a selfish act of leaving behind loved ones, for many their inner pain is too much and the thought of how loved one's will cope after their death is seldom crossed in the depressed mind.

Great post! Did not realize there was a difference between Clinical and regular depression. It is sad how your own mind can be your worst enemy.

As I stated in another post, it seemed depression ran in two sides of my families histories. One of the Uncles I mentioned (Great Uncle) was the sweetest guy you could ever meet. At my first wedding he cried his eyes out and did not have a gift- so gave me his little personal instant camera with a half roll of used film still in there. When I developed it - there was a bunch of his elderly friends from the nursing home and one of him and my Aunt Ethel. I cherish that picture. After my Aunt passed he had depression and dementia and couldn't accept she was gone. He broke out of the nursing home one night with his keys and got into his Lincoln. Didn't have a license for ten years prior. The car was just being parked there temporary before it was to be sold. He drove around and got lost in a snow storm. After running out of gas on a side road, the elements got him. He died holding a wedding picture in his hands of Him and my Aunt.

So in reply to your post- that makes a lot of sense when I look back. Uncle Blaine was Never suicidal but would cry all the time during family holidays. It really freaked me out as a kid. He would say "You are such a great kid, I hope you don't die in your sleep tonight."

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor

Thank you. No, I didnt write that song. It's by Ballyhoo, and he wrote it after his mom died from cancer (I think). Was a band we both liked and saw live a few times. It's a difficult thing to get past. Should never have to bury your child. Luckily my wife and I made it through it after lots of rough times. I'm always worried I'll lose another child since that happened. Really sucks too because most of the time I have to put him out of my memory completely, just to make it through the day. But it's the only way my brain can cope with it I guess. It's still a very fresh wound even though it's been 7+ years.

That is heartbreaking. So sorry for your loss. My biggest fear is for something to happen to my kids.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Anyone taking bets on autoerotic asphyxiation?

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by Viper400

What a memory to have. That's awesome.


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Carlotta was very good friends with Chris. She posted a great pic today on FB. Best wishes to her, I am sure this is an extremely hard day for her.

[scho63]

More women suffer from depression from men but men have a much, much higher rate of suicide. Sadly men still have a hard time reaching out for help when in despair. People call it selfish because they are too ignorant to understand.

[KCUnited]

[MatriculatingHank]

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

Carlotta was very good friends with Chris

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