I'm 59 years old and love Linkin Park. What a voice that guy had! He must have had his demons. Shit.

This was the guy in the Saw 8 car scene, wasn't he?

I know it's sad that that's how I know of him.

Not posting the link because it's very disturbing and inappropriate at this moment.

It's always sad when people with seemingly stable lives and careers decide to leave the world voluntarily.

Here's something from just last month:

http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/linkin_park_chester_bennington_hellfest_tweets

who also commited suicide.

"The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom *Its* invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.

Make no mistake about the people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window, i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."

who wouldn't understand jumping to escape flames? The difference here is while that is technically suicide, it really isn't. It is only suicide if you go into the building intending to jump.

I do understand the gist of what he was saying - when life becomes painful, overwhelming, intolerable, death can seem preferable

He says it is divorce, debt and drugs combined with diminished earning potential that does a lot of these guys in, inertia can keep them going for a long time but when it all stops and it can stop abruptly they face a hopeless sense that there is no way back and no way forward and they can't even bring themselves to talk about it to anybody fearing public humiliation.

in the last two decades. His vocal range was simply incredible. RIP, dude.

I love that song. Seems like this must have been how he was feeling.

Was driving in my car today listening to the local npr station and they were playing Linkin Park as a lead in to the next program and I was remarking to my kid how crazy it was that NPR was using Linkin Park as background music ...

I get home to find this on DU . Haven't thought about Linkin Park in at least a year.

Suddenly here they are.

The coincidences in life are sometimes very creepy.

Sorry to see we lost another talent to the pressure of celebrity.

RIP