Op-Ed: Anthony Bourdain's death has us asking the wrong questions about suicide (via latimesopinion)
in June 2018. As is often the case with people who die by suicide, much of the chatter includes questions such as: How did they do it? Who was the last person they talked to? What was different about that day? What was the precipitating event? We want to understand, and sometimes, we look for someone to blame., “What sets off the crisis is almost always unverifiable. Newspapers often speak of ‘personal sorrows’ or of ‘incurable illness.’ These explanations are plausible.
We say we understand that mental illness is real, but when people with histories of depression, addiction or alcoholism die via suicide we wonder how it could happen. Some of these people, like Jefferson, never make an attempt; some, like Antrim, make one attempt, survive and hopefully never try again. Others, like me, make multiple attempts, perhaps knowing that with every attempt one’s likelihood of dying by suicide significantly increases. There are those like David Foster Wallace, who make multiple attempts while also writing about and fighting the desire for death, who eventually do perish at their own hand.
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