Posted on 06/09/2018 9:22:28 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
As news of Bourdains apparent suicide at 61 sent shockwaves across the Internet on Friday morning, many reflected on his early years a time when Bourdain didnt know if he was going to be a chef, let alone a household name, author, and culinary inspiration and his close ties to Massachusetts.
He left Cape Cod with restaurant experience and a suntan, and then headed off to culinary school and later, New York. But he also left with something else: An ever-deepening relationship with recreational drugs.
Throughout the episode, Bourdain switches between his culinary explorations and highlighting the heroin epidemic in Massachusetts. He visits Greenfield, in the western part of the state, to speak with a former-dealer-turned-informant, and with police officers who are on the front lines of the ever-worsening drug problem.
After examining how the heroin epidemic started, Bourdain begins to weave a narrative that shines a light on both hidden food gems in Western Mass. an old-timey bowling alley and a diner specializing in boiled dinner, for example and residents who have grappled with addiction.
By the end of the episode, Bourdain, sitting in a room with others in recovery, candidly reflects on how he finally confronted his own demons. According to an interview with Biography.com in 2016, Bourdain stopped using heroin in the 1980s.
I looked in a mirror and I saw somebody worth saving, or that I wanted to at least try real hard and save, he said. I look back on that, and I think about what Ill tell my daughter. You know, that was daddy, aint no doubt about it. But I hope that Ill be able to say that was daddy then, this is daddy now that Im alive, and living, and hope.
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You’ve got that right. It has continued since then, and probably will for quite some time. The damage he did will take time to repair. He was, and is, a disaster. SAD.
Must be pretty hard to ask for mental health treatment at the VA hospital when you know all the shrinky-dinks voted for Hillary Xlintstone.
Under Obama they wanted to know if you had a firearm in your home. Even under Trump I would never answer that question.
The VA needs to do something about that. I’m not holding my breath, though.
Never heard of the guy.
What’s the big tragedy over his death that makes it more tragic than anyone else’s?
“Please stop disgracing this forum by posting about this yellow coward who did the ultimate run out and bail out on his little 11 year old daughter who, even if she lives to be 110, will feel this abandonment and pain the rest of her life.”
Normally, I’d agree, but in this case he had some non-so-nice things to say about Hillary, and one of Hillary’s people responded with a not-so-nice comment.
Hopefully the French investigate his death a bit better than we investigated Scalia’s death.
Thanks for posting. Ignore the posters who don’t know anything beyond the title.
Not everyone just CNN.
To the remainder hes just another so called celebrity that couldnt deal with who he really was,Next
Not suicide. Just Redrum
^ This
Shock waves? Seriously? Somehow, I missed it.
Thanks for seeing in this celebrity suicide the greater issue - the need to continue to help people with some very serious illnesses. (addiction and depression)
Years ago I heard someone remarked “that in order to understand suicide, it was not so much a question of why, but rather why not.”
There is pain, sorrow, dissociation, and even a twisted version of love involved. It must be such a dark place to inhabit and I personally can not begin to fathom these miry recesses.
Or... perhaps even accidental and situational... as in playing to close to the slippery ditch. There is a situational awareness we all must foster, but many do not. And they shorten their lives because of it. At the point where a person is devoid of situational awareness, it becomes stupidity that kills them.
Do opioids cause depression and suicidal tendencies?
Just about to post the same thing.
Worth noting that although he had a French Catholic father and a Jewish mother, he was raised without any religion. Too bad, in all his travels, he never sought out the One who could have saved him.
He was found hung in a hotel room in France. Aside from his recent attacks on Weinstein and Hillary. There is no evidence of his depression lately.
“he had some non-so-nice things to say about Hillary, and one of Hillarys people responded with a not-so-nice comment.”
I think it was more than a “comment”. Didn’t he say he had a run-in with Hillary’s “goons” or “thugs” because of his anti-Hillary stance?
Yea, that was the public part (the tweets). There was a clear implication that they had private ‘correspondence’ with Mr. Bourdain.
Prince Harry is a “torch in our darkness” - say veterans who have battled mental health issues.
Women had a crush on Bourdain just like they had a crush on Anderson Cooper before he came out of the closet.
All they’ve got left in life are their cat children. “No good men” in their lives.
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