Chester Bennington
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington’s family photographer snapped this photo just days before he committed suicide. It seems like a typical, happy day in paradise–but for Bennington, who always openly discussed his depression and substance abuse publicly, it must not have been that way. On July 20th, 2017 (what would’ve been Chris Cornell’s 53rd birthday), Bennington took his own life.
Two months after the sudden passing of sound icon Chris Cornell, his widow Talinda Bennington tweeted this photo with the caption: “I have no idea why my husband would want to take his own life.” The tragedy unsurprisingly hit their close-knit family hard.