Anthony Bourdain’s Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis We Ignore

Kate Spade to Anthony Bourdain - every death is a startling reminder; no one has it easy. We need to pay attention.

First, Kate Spade.
And now, Anthony Bourdain.
Among hundreds of others who take their lives, and shall remain faceless, anonymous and unheard.

Neither do I  have any way of knowing what might or might not have happened, nor am I an authority on any of this, but I am a bystander who feels chillingly complicit every single time.

Every death is a startling reminder:
We need to pull ourselves out from inside, claw at the mask, no matter how stubbornly it sticks, excavate the grimy details and lay it all out.

No one has it easy. And no one deserves to be dismissed.

The monstrous weighing scale, applied retrospectively by the rest of us, to prioritise what qualifies as “depressing” and what does not, needs to be smashed with collective might.