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24 year old Ambrose Olsen, shown here in ads for AX, via towleroad.com, died last week. No details are yet released as to the cause of death. The Gallery Forum proves that we like our models, and my guess is that most of them live interesting lives, until they don't.

 

Ambrose Olsen Goes Chasing Waterfalls in New A/X Campaign

 

http://www.towleroad.com/images/2007/04/16/ax1_2.jpg

http://www.towleroad.com/images/2007/04/16/ax3_2.jpgCreative director Tom Jarrold and the folks at Armani Exchange have offered Towleroad and its readers an exclusive first look at images from its forthcoming Summer 2007 "Pool Party" ad campaign, featuring models Ambrose Olsen and Vinci (whom you may remember from the reality show 8th & Ocean).

The campaign was shot by photographer Tom Munro in an outdoor studio and, given the focus of Ambrose's gaze, may cause a few racy daydreams (or accidents) when drivers catch a glimpse of it on the backs of buses next month.

A few more images from the campaign, also featuring Alessandra Ambrosio, can be seen over at Made in Brazil. Victoria Bartlett styled the shoot, with hair by Neil Moodie and make-up by Mark Carrasquillo.

http://www.towleroad.com/images/2007/04/16/ax2_2.jpg

 

Other blogs are reporting his age as 25, and one suggests that suicide was the cause of death.

http://aslcdn.celebuzz.com//bfm_gallery/2009/07/male_model_ambrose_olsen/post_image/post_image-ambrose-olsen-male-model-photos-07272009-79.jpg

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As the blogs update, it does appear that another model found him dead by hanging. I just don't get it. Wouldn't you think that this guy had the world at his fingertips?

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Lucky, He's not the first nor sadly will he be the last apparently "golden haired" boy to take his own life in the prime. I still think from time to time of a boy of 16 who was my class mate who took his life on a weekend when his parents had gone out of town. He was found hanging in the bathroom. And he had everything to live for, a fine family, money more than most (his family's estate complete with huge stone mansion and private lake south of Montreal on a mountain that they owned is now a bird refuge).

 

I don't think we will ever understand why some decide life is not worth living when every day there is evidence all around that it is. It's just one of life's mysteries.

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Sad but seems so common latelt

 

Truly saddens me when I see this. While happiness is in the eye of the beholder, it seems that despair and depression know no rational reason for manifesting itself. No one can ever know what sadness or despair caused this awful event. We can however learn a little about depression and make informed descisions with our own lives as each of us experience it.

 

From someone who for most of his life believed that mental illness was mostly bullshit, I am now convinced that chemicals and the brain activity they cause are the real culprits here.

 

The difficulty becomes when you take this to its inevitable scientific conclusion, we are merely various chemical reactions taking place inside our bodies...Makes the concept of a soul and a personality seem somehow less of a grand possibility.

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Anxiety and Depression

 

In my younger years, I was a practicing clinical psychologist and for several years specialized in treating adolescents who had attempted suicide. While we know that in some cases there is a chemical imbalance in the brain that relates to suicidal thoughts and depression, there are other factors at work too. We know that schizophrenia has a genetic link, but not all who have that genetic link develop schizophrenia. Depression is often masked in adolescents and people in their 20's who to most outward observers have everything going for them. However, when the onion gets pealed back, there are many other factors that contribute to this ultimate cry for help, namely successful suicide. It is most often the case that individuals who are successful in an early end to their life have given friends, family and colleagues many hints to the depths of their despair, but we are blinded by their success in some aspect of their life so that we do not recognize the call for help. We all need to stay attuned to our friends and be a resource for folks who become depressed for what ever reason. It is sad to hear about these events, but it needs to be a wake up call to all of us to be more attuned to those around us. This is especially true for those who are struggling to come to grips with their own sexuality and sexual preferences.

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Diverdan, thanks for the remarks. I wonder if I could direct you to another thread (marijuana)where Epigonos comments on addiction...you might have some insight there, or not.

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Beautiful

 

Thanks for sharing this video tribute, Lucky. Unfortunately, we will probably never know what caused him to cross the line and take his own life.

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