Celebrity Deaths

I'll never understand suicide by hanging, it's a relatively slow and painful death. Easy enough and quiet, but I assumed someone like Bourdain would've gone the OD route? I always liked his shows.

another suicide?

This one hits hard. I can't think of a travel show host, food critic/enthusiast, and personality who I grew to cherish more than Anthony Bourdain. Strip away all the hip stuff about his shows and travels and there was something so goddamn sincere, open-minded, and unpretentious about the man. I'll miss him greatly.

Very sad. I loved his book Kitchen Confidential when I read it ten years ago and often said it was like the Chef version of a Hunter S Thompson book. And now it looks like he's 'done a Hunter S' ie was done with getting old. 

Yeah I'm honestly at a loss of why he committed suicide, he's kind of mellowed out gradually - almost seemingly substituting travelling and exploring cuisine for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

I don't want to speculate too much.

  On 6/8/2018 at 1:42 PM, joshuatx said:

Yeah I'm honestly at a loss of why he committed suicide, he's kind of mellowed out gradually - almost seemingly substituting travelling and exploring cuisine for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

 

I don't want to speculate too much.

He didnt exercise at all!

Did he ate breakfast? No!

So, there you go...

  On 6/8/2018 at 12:29 PM, auxien said:

I'll never understand suicide by hanging, it's a relatively slow and painful death. Easy enough and quiet, but I assumed someone like Bourdain would've gone the OD route? I always liked his shows.

in executions by hanging the neck usually snaps after the drop if it's done right so it's quick and easy, dunno if that's usually the case for domestic suicide

Sad news

Always liked his shows. Like Joshuatx said

Anthony seemed like a nice guy

rip

  On 6/8/2018 at 2:07 PM, span said:

 

  On 6/8/2018 at 12:29 PM, auxien said:

I'll never understand suicide by hanging, it's a relatively slow and painful death. Easy enough and quiet, but I assumed someone like Bourdain would've gone the OD route? I always liked his shows.

in executions by hanging the neck usually snaps after the drop if it's done right so it's quick and easy, dunno if that's usually the case for domestic suicide

I always say - dont try this at home!

fuck

such shitty news. RIP

fuckfuckfuck

that makes me so angry. Don't think I've been bothered by a celebrity death since David Bowie?

  On 6/8/2018 at 2:07 PM, span said:

 

  On 6/8/2018 at 12:29 PM, auxien said:

I'll never understand suicide by hanging, it's a relatively slow and painful death. Easy enough and quiet, but I assumed someone like Bourdain would've gone the OD route? I always liked his shows.

in executions by hanging the neck usually snaps after the drop if it's done right so it's quick and easy, dunno if that's usually the case for domestic suicide

usually home suicides it’s the old belt tied to a doorknob. not a fun way to go.

shit, i really liked the guy. horrible news.

I think you pass out and die unconscious.  could be wrong. Just goes to show you never know. Last person I would have thunk

rip. followed his career since I started working in kitchens as a kid.  The man was an honest poet.  It's crushing that I don't understand why he hung himself.  And all I  truly can imagine is him uttering a smug sarcasm to himself as he places the rope around his neck.

yes, terrible news

  On 6/8/2018 at 2:36 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

fuckfuckfuck

 

that makes me so angry. Don't think I've been bothered by a celebrity death since David Bowie?

same here, Robin Williams was pretty devastating too

i was hanging out with a couple of friends this morning and we heard that bourdain was dead and we all had a similarly devasted response. i can’t put my finger on it exactly but the guy meant a lot to us all somehow. i think it was that he was a public figure that seemed authentic and open-minded and interested in the world. either way we all mourned by watching parts unknown and eventually came to the conclusion that one can at least say that he saw a lot of cool shit during his life. RIP

  On 6/8/2018 at 9:40 PM, Salvatorin said:

 one can at least say that he saw a lot of cool shit during his life. RIP

Amazing passage from Kitchen Confidential when he's still a rookie, working for a guy providing opulent and showy-offy feasts for rich people for wallet gouging prices. They're looking through very old and classic cookbooks and decide upon some ridiculous thing involving sculpting lots of classical mythical things out of aspic etc.

Cut to him and his boss doing this inside a walk-in freezer over a period of days, wearing thermal suits, high on acid and amphetamines.

Tis a great book, read it if you haven't done so. I'm gonna reread it soon.

people who seem to have it all. 

he bugged me but rip anyway

  On 6/8/2018 at 2:36 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

fuckfuckfuck

 

that makes me so angry. Don't think I've been bothered by a celebrity death since David Bowie?

same here, first that anal cunt guitarist cracked his skull by making a backflip from an elevator and now this

The guy is a big inspiration to me and the wife, so it's really sad for us. 

Don't usually get hung up on celebrity deaths but yeah.

Read a tweet about bourdain’s show how it was the one show that told Americans it was ok not to be afraid of things outside America or something along those lines.

My friend in Korea showed him around when he was doing the Korea episode. Said bourdain was an incredible guy full of energy and enthusiasm for exploring all that the world has to offer.

Shitty news. World lost a cool cat.

Bourdain, I’ll miss you dude. When I was traveling I’d wonder what would he think of this place?