Celebrity Chef, World Traveler Anthony Bourdain Found Dead in French Hotel

Anthony Michael Bourdain was an American celebrity chef, author, and world traveler who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition.

Friday, June 8, 2018 was the official date of death. According to CNN, Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series, "Parts Unknown." His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning. He was 61 and took his own life.

Bourdain's cause of death was officially ruled a suicide by hanging. French authorities say that Bourdain hung himself in the bathroom at a luxury hotel, the Chambard, in the village of Kaysersberg in the Haut-Rhin region of Alsace. Authorities indicated that Bourdain used the belt of his hotel bathrobe to hang himself.

How to get help: In the US, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. TheInternational Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide also can provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.

Wisconsin College Student Alyssa Funke Commits Suicide Following Adult Film Casting

Alyssa Funke was a straight-A student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, who committed suicide after being bullied and harassed online over her starring role in an adult video.

Local police decided not to press charges against those who taunted Funke through social media.

Funke, 19, had recently appeared in an adult film at the website CastingCouch-X. According to KMSP, after former classmates from her high school in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, discovered the video, they began sending her abusive messages through Twitter and Facebook.

Her last tweets before her death were on April 14 and 15, appearing to mock those harassing her online:

Pornstar Status. 👌

— alyssa funke (@Funkeetown) April 14, 2014

FAMOUS for dayzzzzzzz

— alyssa funke (@Funkeetown) April 15, 2014

On April 16, Funke committed suicide on a boat, located at a boat landing on Big Carnelia Lake, 26 miles from River Falls and 9 miles from Oak Park Heights.

The teen killed herself with a single shotgun blast.

She spoke on the phone to her mother only minutes before pulling the trigger
and then sent a text after hanging up.

Banker, Philanthropist Jessica Fashano Jumps Off Building in Manhattan

Jessica Fashano, 27, an analyst at Citigroup, was seen on security footage entering Trump Place in Manhattan alone and asking the way to the roof.

On December 18, 2010, police believe she jumped from the top of the 40-storey building but left no suicide note.

Friends were left stunned by the death of Miss Fashano, who was chosen to present a recruitment video for Citigroup, and had dedicated much of her spare time to raising money for charity.

She held fund-raisers for the Acumen Fund, which makes loans to small businesses in developing countries, managing more than 500 volunteers. She also raised money for a charity providing accommodation for heart patients.

Police said Miss Fashano had been undergoing treatment for depression but friends described her as vivacious.

She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 and lived 16 blocks away from Trump Place. It was not clear why she went to the building.

A resident saw her in the lift, dressed in Ugg boots and a winter coat, and she appeared alert before asking the way to the roof. From the top of the building there are views of the Hudson River and New Jersey, where she grew up.

Her friend Michelle Javian told the New York Times: "She just had everything someone could want to be successful. She was always the leader, had everything organized.

"It's like something just changed overnight. Something just snapped, and we don't know. Jessica was an amazing person with such a big heart, a beautiful girl, with a contagious laugh and a willingness to give back. She had it all."

A spokesman for Citigroup said the firm was "deeply saddened."

What Happened To Texas High School Cheerleader Kallie Neutzler?

Kallie Neutzler (Facebook)

Hundreds of Navasota High School students sought counseling Wednesday after hearing that their classmate, 16-year-old Kallie Neutzler, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Kallie's date of death was October 6, 2010.

Officials with the Grimes County Sheriff's Office said family members called police around 6 a.m. after they found her in her bedroom.

She was taken to College Station Medical Center, and at 7:16 a.m., the junior cheerleader was pronounced dead.

"It's just been very emotionally raw on campus today," said Superintendent Rory Gesch. "A lot of emotions are just pouring out of people."

Foul play is not suspected, and the preliminary investigation indicates the gunshot wound was self-inflicted.

'Suddenly Susan' Star David Strickland Dies in Las Vegas Motel Room

David Strickland, an actor who starred opposite Brooke Shields on the sitcom Suddenly Susan killed himself in a hotel room in Las Vegas. The 29-year-old had hanged himself with a bed sheet over the ceiling beam of his room, and a hotel desk clerk found his body.

Strickland was pronounced dead on March 22, 1999 in his room at the Oasis Motel at 1731 S Las Vegas Boulevard.