'Blonde' and the new Anthony Bourdain book are suicide whodunits in which the answer is obvious

Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. — Netflix/TNS

OUR cultural hypocrisy toward mental illness and addiction, not to mention fame and fortune, is never more evident than when some poor famous soul dies by suicide.

"Why?" we ask. "Why would a person who seemed to have it all end their own life?" And then someone writes a book or makes a movie about it.