BREAKING NEWS: Linkin Park singer and father-of-six Chester Bennington commits suicide

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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington has committed suicide.
TMZ reports the 41-year-old hanged himself at a private home in Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Law enforcement officials say his body was found shortly before 9am.
The singer had a history of drug and alcohol abuse.He had six children from his two marriages.

Bennington was a close friend of Soundgarden rocker Chris Cornell who hanged himself in May. Chester and Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson had performed Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' for the crowd of mourners at Cornell's funeral.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4715568/Linkin-Park-singer-Chester-Bennington-commits-suicide.html?ITO=applenews

[Glimmer of Hope]

1. How tragic.

[hamsterjill]

2. Oh how awful.

My sympathies to his family, friends and fans. Sad that someone can be so affected as to choose death.

[BamaRefugee]

3. Tragic for 6 kids whose lives just got destroyed forever. Him?

Suicide is often a question but never an answer.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

16. Yep - my boyfriend's dad committed suicide and the family never really healed. The kids worried

that it could happen to them and all were relieved when they finally turned 58 - going past the age he was when he killed himself. What a thing to have hanging over your head.

[BamaRefugee]

17. and I have known kids who

tragically, blamed it on themselves for years and years, when that was totally untrue

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Depression is a liar.

[YoungDemCA]

9. Depression is a killer that bullies, mocks, abuses, and shames its victims into silence.

The silence and shame being what makes it hardest to even cope - let alone, "get better."

Source: Have experienced major depression, and know others who have, as well.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Yep.

Have also been there. Depression is a liar, but it's hard not to listen to it.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. Such a sad and senseless way to go.

I feel terrible for his family.

At what point do we stop treating access to health care -- including mental health care -- as something other than an absolute necessity for each and every one of us?

[Calculating]

7. I'm pretty sure he could afford mental health care

...

[Bleacher Creature]

8. Yeah, I (obviously) get that.

I was more making the broader point that our view of health care is a bit skewed, which also explains why we treat it as something that's nice to have - as opposed to a right. This is especially true for mental illness, where even people who can easily afford it either refuse to get help or don't even consider treating it.

[Xolodno]

13. One part of a three part problem....

the other two;

Negative Stigma - Society treats mental illness as not a "real" illness. Like ADD and some dumbass says "that's nothing a few spankings can't fix". Family not wanting to be associated with someone with mental illness, it wasn't all that long ago when the solution was to drop them off at the "institution" and forget about them.

Disbelief - often the one suffering from it refuses to believe they have a problem, unfortunately, depression is one of those that fuels that view.

[get the red out]

6. Tragedy

Depression is a killer.

[YoungDemCA]

10. Chester was an enormous talent who struggled with powerful demons his whole life.

And I know this because he had publicly admitted that he had experienced sexual abuse as a child.

RIP.

[Luciferous]

11. Those poor kids

[Doug the Dem]

14. Sorry

The world at their feet, and they pull a Michael Hutchens? Fuck that!

[Blue_Tires]

15. damn... he was only a year older than I...