I'm also aware of what it means to be fatherless and to grow up fatherless. It's a challenge. Those who have walked the same path in life will understand. It's a highly unenviable condition. I can really feel for his kids.

 

What a selfish twat. 6 kids!!!? Seriously!!? Not only did his music suck, but he is was also a dipshit of a father figure. I have no sympathy for people who commit suicide. Bullied, depressed, or even the woe is me type. If you go by taking by your life you're a piece of shit. And that's how you should be remembered.... now somebody here will try to go all Freudian on me to rationalize this type of behavior. But at the end of the day, this guy had money, family, and a cult of people who loved his bands shit music. If he couldn't handle the negative press because some said he was "selling out" than he wasn't much of a man in the first place...

 

you want that level of fame and acclaim.. so you need a big ego.. that denies itself nothing possible..
then you get what you want.. and no one tells you no... they only say go go go.... anything you want,
want to be high? We will supply... want to be down... I'm always around... just say the word...

fame and success with performers , especially musicians, often leads to excess, well what would you expect...?

Prince..., Wieland, Hutchence , Chris Cornell, maybe getting everything you could possibly want and more
is not a recipe for happiness and satisfaction

hence the old phrase, be careful what you wish for.. you might get it...

 

woah woah easy

but yeah really hard to figure out why since he has had a lot of success right?

the thing is, its very concerning that people do this- for not really obvious reasons.

psychology, man. but ive read he was abused as a child and there might have been a lot in his mind that we dont know.

if you want to kill your self you should do something very small, that makes you feel a bit better. I for example got some mice from the forest put them in a cage and now im feeding them. feels good to watch them man.

numb was an iconic song. not that i liked it too much. but that synth line sounds so great! and the song was well executed and written.

and their new album wasnt even that bad, his voice was a great even sounding lyrical type voice.

 

After listening to typical bollywood music (I am from India), this was the first English language music band heard with deep passion.(One of my senior friend had introduced me to NUMB and IN THE END and CRAWLING from HYBRID THEORY.)

Those haunting melodies and the voice of Chester could be felt in the chest.

The band had made me introduced to what ever small I am doing with sound and music.

Thanks for all great music gifts.

RIP Chester..!

 

I wouldn't jump to conclusions so fast.
This is the age of lies and extortion, who know what lies behind it and what may come out.

 

When I'm famous, I'm going to commit snusnuicide.

 

The lack of empathy in this thread is what really makes me sad.

 

I feel you, bro

 

Well, then quit being sad. Not every person who decides to tight the rope around his neck and jump deserves empathy "by default". My sympathies are rather with his wife and more so with his orphaned kids.

 

Sorry, but that's only how someone could interpret it who never really had depression. You should rather imagine how strong his dead wish was if he even left six kids behind. Depression doesn't mean darkness and sadness, it means endless grey and the lack of feelings. Everything gets worthless and especially yourself. Its easy to blame people who kill themself without taking a closer look why. What he did was not a selfish act, it was the result of a critical desease state. He hadn't your point of view.

 

One of the best Linkin Park vocalists

 

Go and fuck yourself. Seems u never used psychoactive substances[u don't know the addict's life] and never were in real clinic depression. It's awful state. Sometimes you have no control of yourself and with time it gets only worst.
R.I.P. the Voice of my childhood. It's really sad.

 

in that case it isn't about famousness.

 

Very very sad. My mom had depressions and i know a little bit what it means.
Everything is dark, no hope nothing. Every Day is a fight so i have no right to talk about things
i could not imagine.

 

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Empathy is nothing that you switch on or off. You either have it or not. Empathy for example enables you to understand the behaviour of a serial killer. It has nothing to do with sympathy nor antipathy. It means that you don't judge based on your own experiences (like you do), but see a bigger picture.

And Aliens' very childish attempts of making fun of the death of a human being is nothing else but disgusting.

It's very sad, because empathy is the very base of the human nature and crucial for our social life.

 

Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back, liberal college kid. Although, scoffing at someone's death is definitely not a good thing.

 

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Also a strange kind of empathy is to like that hackers tweets.
82 Likes->WTF??
And definitely a bit impious to tweet BS from his widows account after hacking it...


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/twitter-hacker-targets-chester-benningtons-widow-hours-suicide/

 

tulamide empathy, compassion, sympathy are common. and as you can't have sympathy for everything, you don't have empathy for everything either. I'm an empathetic alright, I just don't get why should I be empathetic to this guy, why should I be trying to understand and be compassionate towards his actions? he acted irresponsibly and insensitive to the people I'm sure he kept telling to he loved and cared for until his last breath, yet for some reason we absolutely must be sensitive and conscious when he decides to hang himself. save me your BS please.

if you have empathy and understanding for the guy who abandons his wife and six kids for alcohol, drugs, career problems, friend's death, depression, whatever, and flushes his life down the drain like this, for nothing really, lets just say I don't envy your close ones. you have a wrong value system and it's you who is sad.

I've met a lot of people in my life battling hardships lot tougher than Chester Bennington's. They don't hang themselves. So please save me your fairy tales about empathy and compassion for an ignorant and irresponsible spoiled rock star, "struggling" with his life. I don't buy it and I don't really see why anyone else should buy it.