EASTON, Pa. – The region\u2019s entertainment community is coming together on Wednesday to say goodbye to a beloved comedian who died by suicide.<\/p>\n
A memorial is being held in Easton on Wednesday night for Nate Marks, 43.<\/p>\n
\u201cNate was really just one of the most magical people I ever met,\u201d said Jessica Delfino.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe funniest person I ever met, and he loved to make people laugh. It\u2019s what he lived for,\u201d said Sam Grim.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he loved sandwiches. He had a Facebook group called the Sandwich Enthusiasts Association of Pennsylvania,\u201d Delfino added.<\/p>\n
Local comedians Delfino and Grim are remembering their friend, Nate Marks.<\/p>\n
The pair wants people to know that despite the laughter, real pain can hide\u2014even with the most jovial of people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to see when folks are depressed. It\u2019s a very invisible disease, especially for someone like Nate, who is always smiling, laughing and cracking jokes,\u201d Grim said.<\/p>\n
In the fall of 2021, Marks\u2019 girlfriend was accidentally killed by a train on her way to meet him. His current girlfriend said the tragedy haunted Marks, and October was especially difficult.<\/p>\n
He died by suicide Friday, struck by a train.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to say, \u2018Oh wow, you seem really depressed.\u2019 You can just check in: \u2018Hey, I\u2019m wondering how you\u2019re doing,\u2019\u201d said Kristen Pedemonti, a storyteller, speaker and narrative therapist.<\/p>\n
Pedemonti, who counsels trauma survivors, said her father attempted suicide five times. In 2010, she herself was one step away from suicide by a New York City subway.<\/p>\n
She said organizations like the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance offer support\u2014and so can you.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t realize how powerful it is to simply send somebody a text and say, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m thinking about you. Wondering how you\u2019re doing today,\u2019 and open it up that way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe posts and the outpouring of things people have been writing and sharing about him have been amazing and have confirmed what I already knew\u2014that he was a really special person,\u201d Delfino added.<\/p>\n
A legacy beyond laughter\u2014Nate’s lasting mark on the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – The region\u2019s entertainment community is coming together on Wednesday to say goodbye to a beloved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}