Anthony Bourdain has died
>, I can only hope that people as a whole start seeing it as a complex issue and the stigma of mental issues and stress can lessen so that people can get help<p>Possibly inappropriate - but why do people immediately link suicide and mental illness?  Why do we stand in judgement declaring it <i>wrong</i> to decide ones own fate?  Am I not the master of my own existence and do I not have the right to make a decision on it without a bunch of hand wringing from other people refusing to countenance the possibility that I am still of sound mind?<p>Living is a choice, just as death is.  (apologies if this is distasteful, I'm mostly interested to hear responses)