RIP, Tony Bourdain

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One of the most engaging humans of this century, Anthony Bourdain, has passed away, and I will miss him. I enjoyed his travelogues, but loved his huma
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I almost forgot.  You are something of a chef yourself.

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Naw. My wife’s the chef. I’m quality control.

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ROFLMAO!

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Sad that at the end, he thought the only way he could escape his depression was by taking his life. It’s been blowing up on Twitter (& I helped), but if anyone here or anyone you know needs it: National Suicide Prevention Hotline, 1-800-273-8255.

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Just talk to someone, anyone. We’re here. Your friends are here. You’re not alone.

Cheers!!
Willie McClure
“We are trying to build a gentler, kinder society, and if we all pitch in just a little bit, we are going to get there.” Alex Trebek

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There’s too much of this going on; let’s all try and live up to what he once said:

“Be kind, be nice, be sweet.”

There’s just too much inhumanity, suffering and cruelty in the world; that quote of his really rings out.

RIP Mr. Bourdain.

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Ditto. Bless your soul Tony, you will be missed in this world.

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A tortured mind is the equivalent to being in quicksand – the more one struggles, the deeper one sinks. The mind is convinced that there is no way out once trapped. At times there is someone or something that offers a life line and if the mind is accepting, life goes on. The afflicted are constantly lured back to the quicksand and eventually it swallows them.

RIP, Anthony Bourdain.

A tortured body is as difficult. Charles Krauthammer, a medical doctor and political commentator has only weeks to live. He was paralyzed from the neck down as a young man and now he has terminal cancer. No use of his legs, almost no use of his hands, and yet he lived a full life. His mind allowed it and that is the difference.

We never know people from the outside.

For the ‘tortured’, we see their courage but not their pain. Some don’t want us to know.

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Comment 196847 is a rare combination of insight and presentation. Anytime I have read something like this I think that it comes from hard won experience. Bless you, if you are a professional who has studied long and hard to help others your sincerity is refreshing. Bless you with both hands, if you have suffered to gain this knowledge firsthand. You may not have “reached the other side” as I’ve heard it described, but you have retained an amazing ability to write what many feel in a way that causes regular people to reflect. In either case, thank you so much for taking the time to share it here.

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Espresso Willy (and others that have written similar sentiments here): “Just talk to someone, anyone. We’re here. Your friends are here. You’re not alone.”

Quite so and, speaking from experience, I would add:

If you feel that you are a worthless, miserable wretch in a situation so hopeless that there is no way out of it for you anymore, that you have burned all your bridges, and this becomes more and more crushingly obvious the more and more you think about it, and you think more and more about it because you just can’t stop thinking about it, because you are such a miserable wretch in a situation so hopeless…

You might be right about all that, of course, indeed you might be precisely such a wretch, someone so bad the world would be much, much better without you… But, just in case you are wrong:

Talk to people, but also, more specifically, and as soon as possible, talk to a physician, preferably a neurologist. Yours could be, and probably is, a case of acute depression, where medicine can really save your life. Even the life of someone as bad and as wretched and unworthy as you have successfully convinced yourself to be. A few pills can often make a big difference here. When they do, and without fault or delay, apply yourself to learn to be kinder, nicer, sweeter. Because what you just have gone through has now also open to you a great opportunity: a real second chance in life, for becoming more like that.

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