FOR SOME TIME AND WE WILL KEEP
YOU UPDATED AS DEVELOPMENT
HAPPEN.
WE ARE LIVE IN DAVIE THIS NOON,
JOAN MURRAY, CBS4 NEWS.
THANK YOU.
FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS WEEK,
THERE HAS BEEN A HIGH PROFILE
SUICIDE.
LIBERTY SHOVE ANTHONY BOURDAIN
TOOK HIS LIFE.
THIS COMES A DAY AFTER THE CDC
REPORTED A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN
SUICIDES IN THE U.S. THIS
CENTURY.
CBS4'S NIKKI BATISTE HAS MORE.
Reporter: CELEBRITY CHEF
ANTHONY BOURDAIN WAS FOUND DEAD
IN A FRENCH HOTEL ROOM THIS
MORNING AFTER TAKING HIS OWN
LIFE.
IT IS TELLING A STORY, OFTEN
A VERY PERSONAL AND OLD STORY.
Reporter: A LONGTIME HOST OF
"PARTS UNKNOWN" ON CNN, THE
NETWORK SAYS A FRIEND FOUND THE
61-YEAR-OLD FATHER UNRESPONSIVE
AND CONFIRMED HIS DEATH WAS A
SUICIDE.
IN A STATEMENT, CNN SAYS, HIS
TALENTS NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE
US, AND WE WILL MISS HIM VERY
MUCH.
THE WHOLE BUSINESS MODEL,
THE SYSTEM THAT I CAME UP WITH,
ENCOURAGES US TO MAKE THE MOST
OF EVERY AGREEMENT.
-- INGREDIENT.
Reporter: THIS COMES ON THE
HEELS OF THE DEATH OF KATE
SPADE'S AND NEW WARNINGS BY THE
CDC SHOWS A SPIKE IN SUICIDES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY SINCE 1999.
THE BIGGEST INCREASE HAS BEEN
AMONG PEOPLE IN THE SAME AGE
RANGE AS BOTH ANTHONY BOURDAIN
AND 55-YEAR-OLD KATE SPADE.
MIDDLE-AGED AMERICANS,
PARTICULARLY WHITE MEN AND
WOMEN, THEIR RATES HAVE RISEN
THE MOST.
BETWEEN 55% AND 65%.
Reporter: THE CHIEF MEDICAL
OFFICER FOR THE AMERICAN NATION
FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION SAYS A
PERSON'S SUCCESS OR CELEBRITY
LIFE DOES NOT MAKE THEM IMMUNE
TO DESPAIR AND DEPRESSION.
SUICIDE ACTUALLY DOES NOT
DISCRIMINATE.
THE TRUTH IS THAT EVERY PERSON,
NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATUS IN
LIFE, IS HUMAN AT THE CORE OF
IT.
AND WILL FACE THESE KINDS OF
STRUGGLES.
AND SOMETIMES IRONICALLY, IT'S
OUR OWN IDENTITY AND SELF
PERCEPTION THAT MIGHT KEEP US
