Chester Bennington (lead singer of Linkin Park) committed suicide

[DredScott]

I can never get behind this sentiment

I wouldn't suggest suicide to anyone bit you never know how deep it is for some people

This is very true...

I used to be very firm in my belief that suicide is for the weak and is taking the easy way out but after being in a relationship with an extraordinary woman that was (and luckily still is) living with a terminal illness that renders her incapable of anything close to a normal life including not being able to have children, I have become much more flexible on the issue and can understand how a person can choose to go down that path when they are carrying so much pain inside & nothing can be done to relieve it...

I still care for this person even though we aren't together, I'll never forget when she told me "suicide isn't for the scared and weak, it takes a strong person to carry it out to conpletion. I honestly wish I had enough courage to go through with it." It broke my heart knowing how much pain she was it to feel like that but it also gave me a new perspective & made me realize for a lot of suicidal people ending it all is actually being strong in their POV...

That's all I care to say about that issue, r.i.p. Chester....

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

I can never get behind this sentiment

I wouldn't suggest suicide to anyone bit you never know how deep it is for some people

The true tragedy is that some people are so broken, perhaps this is the best way. It's a fukked up line of thinking and I hate myself for thinking that shyt about someone I've lost, but put it like this :

Most of my life my dad was miserable as fukk, he was around and it wasn't all bad but for some reason he always went back to alcohol. That's what killed him in the end but reflecting on it now he basically spent his last 10 years committing slow suicide. The hell he put my mom and me and my bro through was fukked up, and we forgave him because he had some moments of clarity etc. But I truly think that he felt that destroying himself was what he deserved, it was a cycle that he couldn't get out of.

Let's apply that to someone like Chester, he could've spent the remainder of his life making shyt miserable for his 6 kids.

SURE his suicide will be a traumatic event for them, but in his mind he might have saved them from worse.

There are no clear cut answers to LIFE and BEING, and I dismiss anyone who treats depression lightly. You might have people in your past/present who were depressed as fukk and you never knew it BECAUSE those people know that you would think less of them or even dismiss them.

We're all thrown into this world and a lot of who we are and who we become is completely out of our control, kids who are thrown into shytty lives are forced to grow up into adults who have to deal with that shyt. Suicide is in a way the only real CHOICE some feel they ever had in their lives.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

One thing no one can deny is the significant pain in Bennington's voice. He clearly purged his anguish through his music. Bennington was open with his history of abuse and struggles with drugs and alcohol, which he claimed helped him create some of the band's biggest songs. When describing the song "My Suffering," he told the music website Noisecreep.com in 2009 it's "literally about (how) being an alcoholic and a drug addict has paid off for me in many ways. I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain, so to speak, and kind of being able to vent it through my music."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/opinions/lesson-in-chester-bennington-death-opinion-cane/index.html

"My Suffering" was written during the three year break that Chester Bennington took from working on his solo album in order to work and tour with Linkin Park from 2006 until 2008. It's title was first revealed on a songboard posted by Julien-K in 2007.[1]

On May 10, 2008, the band played their first official show under the name Dead By Sunrise and debuted an early version of "My Suffering" which featured more screaming. The album version was recorded after Linkin Park finished touring for Minutes To Midnight.

Speaking to The Aquarian Weekly on October 13, 2009 about this period, Chester said, "[...] I was having tough times in the middle of a long, drawn out divorce that was draining and pretty much put me on a downward spiral just because it was so…there was so much going on during that period of time, that you get songs like ‘My Suffering’ and ‘Condemned,’ and the heavier, darker stuff was all derived from the phases of that experiences. But yeah, there was a lot going on."[2]

During an interview with MusicRadar on November 20, 2009, Chester spoke about how the songs "Crawl Back In" and "My Suffering" dealt with his addictions: "I'm also a sucker for alcohol. It's an amazing thing…it was baffling to me when I was going through the throes of alcohol addiction because I'm usually a pretty even-keel guy. But when it comes to drinking, I just can't stop. The urge to drink just takes over. It astounds me how different I am when I'm drinking from when I'm not. I become this other person. Probably not a very good person, but that's what alcohol can do to some people."[3]

My Suffering - Linkinpedia

 

[BlaKcMoney]

If that is the case it wouldn't surprise me at all this world is wicked especially under Esau's treachery and secrecy.

Esau can't stop yasharahla from rising. The daughter of Babylon is on its way down

 

[tru_m.a.c]

He said that another song, "Crawling," is "probably the most literal song lyrically I'd ever written for Linkin Park and that's about feeling like I had no control over myself in terms of drugs and alcohol. That feeling, being able to write about it, sing about it, that song, those words sold millions of records, I won a Grammy, I made a lot of money. I don't think I could've been inspired to create something like that by watching someone else go through that. So in a lot of ways that's been very constructive for me."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/opinions/lesson-in-chester-bennington-death-opinion-cane/index.html

Bennington and Cornell were not only musical collaborators but also good friends. After Cornell's death in May, the Linkin Park singer posted an intense, grieving message to Twitter. He wrote of Cornell, "You have inspired me in many ways you could never have known. Your talent was pure and unrivaled. Your voice was joy and pain, anger and forgiveness, love and heartache all wrapped up into one. I suppose that’s what we all are. You helped me understand that. I just watched a video of you singing ‘ A day in the life ‘ by the Beatles and thought of my dream. I’d like to think you were saying goodbye in your own way. I can’t imagine a world without you in it."
Watch Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell Sing Linkin Park's "Crawling" in 2008

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Chester Bennington may have mimicked the suicide of his close friend, Chris Cornell, because they died in virtually identical ways.

Law enforcement sources tell us, the Linkin Park singer was found hanging from a door separating his bedroom from his closet. TMZ broke the story, Chris Cornell died hanging from a hotel door separating the bedroom from the bathroom.

We're also told Chester was found with a belt around his neck. Chris was found with an exercise band around his neck.

Our sources say there was a partially empty bottle of alcohol in the room where Chester died, but no evidence of drugs.

And we're told Chester did not leave a suicide note in the room. Neither did Chris.

TMZ broke the story ... Chester killed himself on Thursday, which would have been Chris Cornell's 53rd birthday.

Linkin Park Singer Chester Bennington Hanging Almost Identical to Chris Cornell Suicide

 

[jadillac]

Depression works like this...


You start feeling like things will be better if you're gone. It's not selfish to them... But it's not reality

Hard to differentiate how you feel and whats real

I just wonder what's up with them hanging themselves.

Celebs in general often live in a bubble, despite traveling the world freely.

Rip to dude. They took the hip hop Rock crossover to a legit level higher than limp bizkit did.

Prayers to his fam.

 

[Heelish]

Downloading all those DBZ AMVs set to Linkin Park classics from KaZaA

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Dude was incredible live vocally...shyt sounded exactly like the track

Just off his lyrics you could tell he had a bunch of shyt on his mind though

So sad...R.I.P

They just put out an album recently right? And we're about to go on tour...man life is crazy

 

[ManBearPig]

 

[Brad Piff]

Chester Bennington's Wife Says She Cheated On Husband

 

[radio rahiem]

Chester Bennington's Wife Says She Cheated On Husband

 

[Hammer]

this got 0 media attention, nobody cares but Rip

 

[Bernie Madoff]

Very selfish of him.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

I'll put it like Kurt Cobain did
"Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored as old"

I've gone through depression but I couldn't imagine going threw it, getting rich, and still not being able to beat it.

They only dropped one dope album but HT is a classic