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Chris Cornell & Linkin Park "Crawling "

These two brilliant artists leaving this world by their own hand needs to have some meaning and value behind it.  It simply cannot be dismissed as a tragic end caused by the rock star life style, and the behavior that comes with it.  Because that is bullshit. These guys had the same problems, the same misfortune and good fortune as anyone else.  Life is never made better by fame and fortune, those things cause isolation.  Isolation causes depression without a avenue to seek help.  Being in the public eye means every action the human takes, is going to be public.  The stigma that comes with depression, or substance issues needs to be examined and thought of as something that people do not dismiss as shameful.  So many people need help, those people know and want help, but they also know that to seek help will forever carry a label that allows the public to consider them slightly less worthy humans from that point on. Even facing these demons  in the fish eye lens does not take the pain away, to relapse causes deeper judgments and chips away at the self worth of an individual who is nothing more than a human being.  Loving someone's are, is fantastic, enjoying them perform is wonderful.  They do not need the idol  label or the false super hero status though.  Thats not a gift it is a cross to bear.  I personally loved what these two guys brought to my life.  I just wish that fame wasn't such a double edged sword.