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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3553001" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>My wife's father committed suicide at 36.  Left behind a wife and 4 kids.  Was also a heroin addict, in and out of prison.  Bourdain was a former heroin addict too.  No telling what demons are in the heads of people who've hit rock bottom at some point.  Read an article this evening that said a very sad side effect of celebrity suicides is it becomes like a contagion.  Suicides went up 10% in the months after Robin Williams' death.  Most likely if he had been clear headed enough to realize the hurt his death would cause his family, and possibly lead to others mimicking him, he wouldn't have done it.  Just find it hard to believe he was in his right mind.  About the only ones who seem clear headed taking their life are the terminally ill who are in great pain or soon will be.</p></blockquote><p></p>