RIP Robin Williams

MelissaWV said:
I don't think the pronouncement of suicide was quick at all. He was dead at noonish (local time, I assume) but the official announcements of his death were not all over the place for several hours. One doesn't usually accidentally put a belt around one's neck, fully clothed, and lean into it long enough to die.

People really will dig for a conspiracy anywhere. I guess it's always possible, which blinds people to whether or not it's probable. The guy had been fighting off demons the entire time he was in public. You do not generally find people that manic without a corresponding low. There is a fairly reliable history of comedians with substance abuse issues --- prescription and otherwise --- and early deaths. My only surprise at hearing this was that it didn't happen years and years ago.
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I was not entertaining any notions of any conspiracy in this case. I just didn't want Robin Williams death to be called a suicide if it may have been some form of accident. Simply announcing "asphyxiation" seemed to leave far too many questions for me to satisfied with that explanation. If they had said it was a suicide and that the details were being withheld pending family notification or something I would have been less inquisitive.
 
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And now his daughter has withdrawn from social media. Trolls on the internet? Making ridiculous comments about her recently-deceased dad on her account?

Who are these sick people?

Hmm.
 
Devastating. By all accounts he was one of the kindest, gentlest people who truly lived to make others smile. One of my all-time favorite actors and comedians. Who knew someone who could spread so much happiness could have so little for himself.
 
fr33 said:
What you call obvious is just a figment of your imagination. And not just on this topic.
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Seriously.

No one has proof (unless you count his several children as proof), I give something resembling a reason for my opinion, he gives none at all, yet my opinion is 'cognitive dissonance' and that's that.

Yes, god. I stand corrected. Just damn.
 
Is anyone else besides me getting tired of hearing about Robin Williams? The media/social media coverage is insane and distracting from other more important issues.
 
qh4dotcom said:
Is anyone else besides me getting tired of hearing about Robin Williams? The media/social media coverage is insane and distracting from other more important issues.
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I cannot recall seeing a mere mention of Robin on any of my news sources. Perhaps seek legitimate news sources?
 
qh4dotcom said:
Is anyone else besides me getting tired of hearing about Robin Williams? The media/social media coverage is insane and distracting from other more important issues.
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If anyone deserves the coverage, it is probably Robin Williams. Sadly, the aggrandizing of entertainers is part of the establishment media methodology to distract from other issues and influence value systems.
 
I recall when he was asked by James Lipton what he would want to be if not an entertainer, Robin said very sincerely "a theoretical physicist." I'll bet he would have been quite good at that.
 
anaconda said:
If anyone deserves the coverage, it is probably Robin Williams. Sadly, the aggrandizing of entertainers is part of the establishment media methodology to distract from other issues and influence value systems.
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Why does a selfish liberal celebrity who killed himself and left his children without a father deserve more coverage than the children who are getting beheaded by ISIS?
 
qh4dotcom said:
Why does a selfish liberal celebrity who killed himself and left his children without a father deserve more coverage than the children who are getting beheaded by ISIS?
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I find Robin Williams equally interesting in some ways. But you're point is well taken and corroborated by my assertion that media attention to entertainers is a political and social engineering ploy. Yet, I would much rather listen to an interview with Robin Williams than Barack Obama or George W. Bush. I don't need to spend 100% of my discretionary time exploring the world of infant beheadings. I prefer to round it out with a bio of maybe Tesla, Jung, Charles Chaplin, or Lewis and Clarke.
 
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Wife announced he was suffering the first stages of Parkinson's disease.

Robin Williams, the beloved comic who committed suicide on Monday, was battling the early stages of Parkinson's disease, it has been revealed by his widow, Susan Schneider.

In a statement sent to the news media on Thursday, Schneider explains that the star's sobriety was "intact" at the time of his death, calling him "brave" as he battled depression, anxiety and early stages of the disease.
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She asked that her following statement run in its entirety.

"Robin spent so much of his life helping others. Whether he was entertaining millions on stage, film or television, our troops on the frontlines, or comforting a sick child — Robin wanted us to laugh and to feel less afraid."
"Since his passing, all of us who loved Robin have found some solace in the tremendous outpouring of affection and admiration for him from the millions of people whose lives he touched. His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles."
"Robin's sobriety was intact and he was brave as he struggled with his own battles of depression, anxiety as well as early stages of Parkinson's Disease, which he was not yet ready to share publicly."
It is our hope in the wake of Robin's tragic passing, that others will find the strength to seek the care and support they need to treat whatever battles they are facing so they may feel less afraid."
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ams-was-battling-parkinsons-disease/14062707/
 
I can see how he might have been depressed enough at this point in his life and career to off himself, considering some of his past projects.

Tell me 'Toys' wasn't predictive programming.
 
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