one more time for the cheap seats

It’s fine to rec­og­nize Kate Spade as an artist and de­sign­er and love her products, 

but it doesn’t mat­ter what she did or didn’t do for a liv­ing or for so­ci­ety or how rec­og­niz­able she or her prod­ucts were. 

It doesn’t make her de­pres­sion and sui­cide any more or less trag­ic than any­one else’s.

She was a per­son, and that’s all she need­ed to be for this to matter.

As long as we con­tin­ue to only high­light and dis­cuss de­pres­sion and sui­cide when fa­mous peo­ple suf­fer and die, every­one will con­tin­ue to suf­fer and die from de­pres­sion and suicide.

It’s like when Neal Bren­nan said (to para­phrase)

imag­ine hav­ing a cold and some­one telling you, 

“Yeah you don’t re­al­ly have that.”
 
 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2018 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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