Tom Nicon, one of the top male models in the fashion industry, jumped from a fourth floor apartment in Milan and killed himself. According to this article, suicides are trending in the fashion world. In November, a Chanel model hung herself, followed by another hanging in April, and in May, a London model tried a lethal cocktail of pills and alcohol and survived.
These people have good looks, money, are well-traveled, and relatively famous. Yet, they feel despondent and hopeless enough to end their own life. What’s wrong here? Why are models killing themselves? They have everything the world has esteemed worthy and yet somehow these people aren’t happy.
What’s wrong with the human condition? Why?
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In the word’s of GK Chesterton.
“I am”
From Orthodoxy?
the world’s standard of perfection and the fact that no one can reach it. There is only grace through Christ.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln