Robin Williams Found Dead
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Agree, very good post Handi Capper.
As someone who suffers from depression I understand what that deep dark place is. My father has it too. Only once have I come close to the point of ending it but good thing I didn't. It sucks and it's REAL. Peace everyone, even you Hankieboy.
As someone who suffers from depression I understand what that deep dark place is. My father has it too. Only once have I come close to the point of ending it but good thing I didn't. It sucks and it's REAL. Peace everyone, even you Hankieboy.
All of us have the empty feeling that comes from not being satisfied. It is part of what has propelled the human race to move forward so quickly. However, in someone who is depressed, that empty feeling becomes a wide abyss that it is very hard to resist falling into. No amount of money, drugs, sex or other delights will fill that abyss enough. I am sure it is even harder for someone who is famous and always on the spot whenever he goes out in public. I cannot imagine how exhausting that must have been for him. I mourn the passing of a great entertainer. It is truly rare to have that gift to equally amuse and sadden audiences. He was a captivating performer who for my money was at his best in Dead Poets Society.
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one of my hero's is gone and I can't quite wrap my head around why he gave up.
There are a lot of profound and truly worth reading post within this thread.
Well said thoughts and opinions brought about by the suicide of a man who I hoped had slayed his last demon.
It saddens me...and I don't let much bother me.
There are a lot of profound and truly worth reading post within this thread.
Well said thoughts and opinions brought about by the suicide of a man who I hoped had slayed his last demon.
It saddens me...and I don't let much bother me.
Sheriff Reveals New Details of Robin Williams Suicide
https://ca.celebrity.yahoo.com/blog...ails-of-robin-williams-suicide-181808746.html
https://ca.celebrity.yahoo.com/blog...ails-of-robin-williams-suicide-181808746.html
yep, it's an old story, does the clown have a Watchman?...David Wong,the Executive Editor of Cracked.com, posted this article that is being re-posted everywhere. Some excerpts:
Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves
You ever have that funny friend, the class-clown type, who one day just stopped being funny around you? Did it make you think they were depressed? Because it's far more likely that, in reality, that was the first time they were comfortable enough around you to drop the act.
The ones who kill themselves, well, they're funny right up to the end.
Because Cracked is driven by an army of aspiring comedy writer freelancers, the message boards are full of a certain personality type. And while I don't know what percentage of funny people suffer from depression, from a rough survey of the ones I know and work with, I'd say it's approximately "all of them." So when I hear some naive soul say, "Wow, how could a wacky guy like [insert famous dead comedian here] just [insert method of early self-destruction here]? He was always joking around and having a great time!" my only response is a blank stare.
That's honestly the equivalent of "How can that cow be dead? She had to be healthy, because these hamburgers we made from her are delicious!".......
So I don't know Robin Williams' situation, and I don't need to -- I can go scoop up an armload of examples without leaving my chair. As one of the head guys at Cracked, I'm surrounded by literally hundreds of comedy writers, and I inhabit the body of one.....
Now do you want me to tell you how many messages/comments/emails we get from fans telling a writer to "kill yourself" because said writer wrote a joke they didn't like? When I ban them, they always act confused as to why.....
Yeah, and Chris Farley just made wacky slapstick movies about a fat guy who falls down a lot, right up until he stopped his own heart with a drug cocktail. The medium has nothing to do with it -- comedy, of any sort, is usually a byproduct of a tumor that grows on the human soul.....
As for me, I haven't thought about suicide in a long time, not since high school, when a guy talked me out of it, though to this day I doubt he realizes it. So, I lived on to wind up with a job where one of my tasks is to ban people who follow him from one comment section to another telling him he's not funny and should kill himself. Is that ... irony? Shit, I don't think English has a word for what that is.
Anyway. Rest in peace, Robin. You've given us a chance to talk about this, and to prove that this has nothing to do with life circumstances -- you were rich and accomplished and respected and beloved by friends and family, and in the end it meant jack fucking shit.
I read and listened to your thoughts and comments. All something I personally can learn and grow from. Thank you.
His wife just released that he was in the early stages of Parkinson's Disease. I'm sure that was one of many puzzle pieces.
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