Fox News journalist Dominic Di-Natale is dead, an apparent suicide

[hue]

Source: Washington Post

Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale, 43, who most recently reported on the protests in Ferguson, Mo., has died, Fox News reports. He was found dead Wednesday in Jefferson County, Colo., after an apparent suicide, the county coroner told the news network.

Di-Natalie owned property in the area. A friend alerted authorities to check on Di-Natale, according to the network, concerned about his state of mind after “serious undisclosed health issues.”

“We were extremely saddened to learn of Dominic’s passing and send our deepest condolences to his family and friends,” Fox News said in a statement. “He was an esteemed journalist and an integral part of our news coverage throughout the Middle East.”

Di-Natale, who was originally from Britain, began his journalism career in 1989 as a magazine writer in Portugal. In 1995, he went back home, where he started freelancing for BBC World.

In 2007, he joined Fox News, covering international news for Fox News Channel and FoxNews.com as well as contributing to Fox Business Network. He reported from Osama bin Laden’s compound after he was killed and from Egypt’s Tahrir Square during the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Over Thanksgiving, he reported from Ferguson, where white police officer Darren Wilson killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/12/fox-news-journalist-dominic-di-natale-43-an-apparent-suicide-at-43/

[steve2470]

1. sorry to hear this, probably was very depressed

Yea he worked for Faux but still a human.

[yeoman6987]

2. I agree

Depression is horrible. Our country needs to get a hold on it somehow. Sending good vibes to his family.

[Prophet 451]

3. Available mental healthcare would be a start

I'm mentally ill (MDD, GAD, "visions" and voices). There is still an incredible stigma attached to mental illness, it's still viewed as a weakness of the self, something you can just "snap out of it". I wasted many years of my life because of that stigma until my SO forced me to get treatment.

And that's here in the UK where the NHS covers my doctor and shrink visits (carefully arranged so I'm never more than a week between seeing one or the other). If it had been down to the American system of triage-by-wallet, I'd be dead.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Too much guilt is a killer.

Real or not. Mental illness is hard for others in a family to understand. Makes it that much harder for the family member who is mentally ill. The things that torture them are as real to them, as reality is to you or me. My mother suffered horribly in the not too far gone days when shock therapy was the norm. God rest her soul. I miss her.

[Derek V]

5. This is a sad thing

Nothing funny about it.

[leftynyc]

6. May he rest in peace

Depression is a killer disease.

[840high]

7. .... Sad