Copycat Suicides-Bourdain and Kate Spade-Hopelessness Ends Lives

It's hard to get one's head around the news this morning that Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef, author and host of Parts Unknown on CNN would take his own life. I watched his show often, he was gifted in many ways. I loved how he related so well to people of all religions and cultures throughout the world and how through food and cooking he could create good will. I always marveled at how he overcame drug addiction as he explained on one show, he was a heroin addict when he was young. So I thought to myself from heroin to becoming a celebrity chef and TV personality. Pretty good! But it was not all good because in the end, his demons got the best of him. You have to say, "Why?" What makes a successful person who came from so little and became rich and famous and related so well to all kinds of people die in such a horrific, hopeless way.
And then there was the other baffling news story of another successful, rich person, Kate Spade, whose name is everywhere taking her own life in a horrific way. Death by strangulation. That's pretty bad. It's pitiful. What's worse is who is left behind. Both Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade had teenage daughters. How will they ever be the same? I feel so bad for Bourdain's daughter Ariane, aged 11 and Kate Spade's daughter Frances age 13. Such a difficult time in life as it is for young girls growing up in this uncertain world and they have to deal with such grief and pain.
It just doesn't make sense to me. This is the reason I hold my deep faith very close to me and know of it's importance. Because even if one day seems hopeless or I am disappointed I know tomorrow I will wake up feeling better because Jesus walks with me in good times and bad. You can't minimize mental illness, I understand that, but I know how much hope my faith gives me. And because of that, it's priceless to me.
Rest in Peace Kate and Anthony
NJA