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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
I still can't. I don't know why his death affected me so badly, but it did. I suffered severe depression through most of my youth. That might have something to do with it. I love watching him explore the world, but I just can't now.
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The same, it's too hard to watch.
I think part is yes due to the tragedy (I mean if you read some of his books, he doesn't gloss over his instability at times.) of leaving a young child behind, being found by one of his good friends (Eric Ripert from what I've read and seen is an impossibly decent human being), as just the loss of his life for something really beyond his control.
He seemed to be very much a humanist at the end, curtailing what I saw and read as a pretty snarky overconfident cook into someone who advocated for the less fortunate, globalist and pro-feminist.
I think his mantra was we could all sit down and eat and talk and not be so divided (see his Ted Nugent episode, or his West Virginia one).
And I think that theme of enjoying life and food and friends and family, and perhaps sitting down with a stranger who looks so different and yet you could bond or daresay just be decent to each other kind of curdled due to his demise.
I'll never forget his tagline "Be a traveler, not a tourist"