Recently, several high-profile suicides have made front page news. Fashion designer Kate Spade committed suicide in June, hanging herself in her penthouse apartment located on the ultra glamorous Park Avenue in New York City. Anthony Bourdain, the renowned celebrity chef and television personality, hung himself just days later in a swanky hotel in Alsace, France. Bourdain and Spade seemingly had everything: wealth, fame, a robust family life. To suddenly commit suicide, an act which appears from the outside to be so extreme, both of the celebrities stunned the general public, which is seldom stunned by news today. Neither Spade nor Bourdain had withdrawn from the public stage. Bourdain, in...
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