> These were celebrities who seemingly had everything to live for, and still chose death as a way out.
It seems like common knowledge being a celebrity is not easy, and if you write about Japanese subculture, you should know it's even harder in Japan as it's a society which can foster a lot of shame if you mess up.
Some people for some reason fail to realise that 'seemingly having everything' doesn't really mean much. It may look from the outside that a person have everything, but from that person's point of view they have nothing.
Why? Here's the story from a few years back. A guy has a nice banking career, lots of money (at least compared to most of his peers), wife, kid, nice house in addition to the apartments in the city.
One day the whole family (grandparents too) go to the said house for a weekend. At some point the guy walks away from his relatives, goes down the stairs to the basement and blows this head away with a gun.
Everyone starts asking one question - why? Dude had everything most people can dream of. Wealth, car, house etc.
But for some reason people can't see on simple thing. He never really wanted this. He wanted to be a baker. He'd like to bake cakes for kids and play guitar in the evening or something. But he simply couldn't escape his current life and he didn't want any of this.
I too dislike that sentence. It's as if they are missing the depth of reality in the issue. However I think there can be something in that. Consider:
>Anthony Bourdain had the greatest job that show biz has ever produced. This man flew around the world and ate delicious meals with outstanding people. That man, with that job, hung himself in a luxury suite in France.
I think the point either case might be making is that you can be living the best of life and still have mental health problems. If not more likely to have mental health problems.
The even more valuable lesson might be that trying to obtain this luxury or fame isn't the source of happiness.
Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith explains this by saying people want to be loved but they also want to feel worthy of love. For some people fame screws with their head because they either think no one really loves them or they think that people really do but only because they don't really know them.
> These were celebrities who seemingly had everything to live for, and still chose death as a way out.
It seems like common knowledge being a celebrity is not easy, and if you write about Japanese subculture, you should know it's even harder in Japan as it's a society which can foster a lot of shame if you mess up.