BREAKING Anthony Bourdain dead from suicide at 61

[The Intergalactic Koala]

r.i.p....used to watch his older stuff alot...he got way more serious later on i noticed...

Yeah I enjoyed his older "No Reservations" material because it reminded me of the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". The whole trippy camera effects along with his witty narration.........damn man

 

[DaRealness]

This one took me by surprise earlier. Damn.

Mental health issues are no joke.

 

[The Plug]

Rest in peace to him. From what I saw he was a chill old dude. My mom watches his show, she said he always seemed to not be happy.

 

[New Username]

From his wiki

A former user of cocaine, heroin, and LSD, in Kitchen Confidential he wrote of his experience in a trendy SoHo restaurant in 1981: "We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to 'conceptualize.' Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Cannabis, methaqualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, secobarbital, tuinal, amphetamine, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we'd send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get."[100]

 

[dtownreppin214]

Never knew the demonic chick from he Rome episodes was his girl.

 

[Gains]

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

Bourdain was the reason i dont mind eating street food in other countries. Especially 3rd world. I traveled with "friends" before in southeast asia and these motherfukkers were too scared to try the local food. They went to burger king and KFC. Travel across the world to eat burgers and fried chicken breh.

 

[shadowking]

saw this on reddit a while ago...maybe this can sort of shine a light on some of the thoughts that sneak up on folks

So maybe this can help you out friend. I’ve had suicidal ideations for years and years. Sometimes they are multiple times a day and sometimes they are a couple times a week. I used to get really depressed about it which would just make the whole thing even worse. The thing that changed and has saved my life is coming to a new conclusion about the nature of thought. Here’s an example: you know when you meet a brand new person and you start talking to them it can be pretty uncomfortable? It is even worse if every time you see that person and they try to talk to you you just avoid them and dip out. It’s the same with your thoughts. When the suicide thought comes around one of two things usually happens. We get sucked into it and think it’s who we are or it happens and we do whatever we can to avoid it. What i do now is i have given the suicide thought a name. When it pops up i say “hello suicide thought guess you’re gonna be around for a while” and i let it enter my mind and do its thing but while it’s happening i place my focus on something in reality. Any of the five sense will do. What do i hear right now? What can i feel? Paying attention to your breath is a great practice because you can hear, taste, feel, and smell it. I’ve found that after about 10 minutes of paying attention to something other than my thoughts all of a sudden the thought passes and i continue with my day. This is the basics of mindfulness. Just remember that you are not what you think. The inner monologue is just electrical impulses moving through neurons that you have no control over. People have 50,000 thoughts a day but isn’t it strange that we only notice the ones that bother us? Our bodies are amazing things and they have an internal alarm system that starts working as soon as you give attention to a thought that contradicts reality. Thoughts and emotions are one and the same, and our bodies instantly give us feedback when we think something incorrect. Thinking about something that contradicts reality makes us instantly “feel” bad. And that, my friend is the wake up call. When you have a shytty emotion take a look at the thoughts you are paying attention to. 100% of the time they are not lining up with reality and your body makes you feel shytty so you will stop. This method works for every single thought. Good luck friend and know that I love you.

Edit: thanks for the gold stranger ;)

 

[InstantKlassik]

I've never heard of him

 

[Gyasi85]

Crazy. Something's really, really wrong. Wealthy white people killing themselves. I'm sure there will be plenty of discussion now.

What's wrong with wealthy white people killing themselves... ..wonder if they ask the same thing when Cops kill us

 

[wtfyomom]

im not trying to be a dikk but this is privileged shyt, you got starving kids that dont kill themself. this dude had the best job you could possibly have, idgaf this shyt is wack and he had a kid that was under 18 just like that purse making bytch. yeah i get people liked this guy more than kate spade so hes getting more remorse. im not saying fukk him but ill never understand it. and he wasnt even one of these crazy famous people that couldnt move through life. he had literally the perfect situation.

 

[blockburna420]

Rip, this is the second culinary hero I've lost this year.

 

[Magic Mulatto]

Those with the gumption to commit that.

Probably should refrain when you have dependents tho.


As expressed by many in this thread, Anthony seemed like a cool ass dude.


The contrast in commentary between sites like The Coli and St0rmfr0nt is lowkey kinda crazy.

Lots of nikkas still think Jews and White folk are one and the same.


The Internet (like life) is wild, B. It really knows no bounds.

 

[R=G]

It’s been something in the air since Trump took office

Yes..its called bold discrimination

 

[FSP]

im not trying to be a dikk but this is privileged shyt, you got starving kids that dont kill themself. this dude had the best job you could possibly have, idgaf this shyt is wack and he had a kid that was under 18 just like that purse making bytch. yeah i get people liked this guy more than kate spade so hes getting more remorse. im not saying fukk him but ill never understand it. and he wasnt even one of these crazy famous people that couldnt move through life. he had literally the perfect situation.

It's cool. You don't understand the obsession of suicide and how it can compulse you to act on it but I don't understand how people can attack that person because of your own misunderstanding. A lot of this is due to the pressures of capitalist ideals and expectatioms that have been conditioned into you since birth that's why you might not see it reported in 3rd world countries as much. It just wore him down likely over decades im talking 30 years possibly.