Re: Anthony Bourdain's suicide, dead at 61
Posted by:
unguided missile
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Date: June 11, 2018 06:35AM
wally Wrote:
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> Indeed Wrote:
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> > no dr of living Wrote:
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> > > To Wally, above-
> > >
> > > Asking how "someone could commit suicide?"
> > >
> > > You need to understand one of the fundamental
> > > drives of all living things is a STRONG
> desire
> > for
> > > self preservation.
> > >
> > > In healthy animals, it is, in fact, the
> > strongest
> > > desire, guiding ALL other desires...the
> desire
> > to
> > > wake up, eat, avoid pain, etc.
> > >
> > > So clearly, when a living thing violates this
> > > instinct, clearly they are not acting within
> a
> > > "normal" or logical spectrum.
> > >
> > > So, to ask a question like that is pretty
> > silly,
> > > if in fact you are looking for an answer.
> >
> > Indeed. Excellent post. Logic doesn't enter
> into
> > it at that point.
> >
> > Ask anyone who's had a loved one attempt
> suicide.
>
>
> My brother committed suicide almost ten years ago.
> His sons were 6 and 2. No drugs,
> marriage/financial problems, illness, nothing we
> could ever find. He left no note. He had no
> history of mental illness. My question was not
> silly to ask.
Well, then, what kind of answer are you looking for?
Because he was just messing around?
Because he was angry?
Because he wanted to show his family something?
Because he was being silly?
Because he was hungry?
Obviously, whoever could so seriously violate one of nature's fundamental drives, the aforementioned self-preservation drive, is not thinking "normally", that is, within a thought pattern consistent to self preservation and so, I don't know that any answer to "how could he have done it" would make much sense to those who do operate within that self preservation thought pattern.
It might be compared to going ballistic.