May 04, 2019

Musicians and suicide, why?

Chester Bennington, Linkin Park

Stereogum takes on a serious issue of musician committing suicides: "We continue to lose music heroes to suicide and self-medication, with no real connection between age or genre — Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Avicii, Mac Miller, Lil Peep, Scott Hutchison, Keith Flint from the Prodigy, Kim Jong-hyun of K-pop group Shinee, Allman Bros. Band drummer Butch Trucks, Keith Emerson, and tons more... The media and the public is finally talking about this in a way that is more empathetic, humane and preventative".