Yeah I just saw this myself. Sad news for sure. Apparently he was struggling with depression for some tome.....

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Playing darts with the Condor's feather shuriken...

I'd been clinging to hope that this was a hoax.

Most of the funniest people I've known have issues with depression. Ironically, others are published horror writers.

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This is so sad. He was one of my favorite comedians. He had so much going for him. Guess you never really know what demons people wrestle with.

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No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Apparently his wife is saying that he had the early stages of Parkinsons ...

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Eagle Whisperer

We have all watched how this diseases has affected many celebrities, Muhammed Ali makes rare appearances, Michael J Fox has learned how to work it into his roles and identity as an actor.

However, Robin Williams has conquered much with drug addiction and alcoholism, fought depression, I wonder if this was just that one to many, if his identity was so wrapped up in his comedy that was both verbal and physical, that this was just the one thing that he couldn't fight.

Many sources have been reporting the visit he made to Christpoher Reeve going into surgery after his accident. When we think of Christopher Reeve we don't think of the charming, good looking, actor, we think of the man who spent the last decade or so of his life a quadriplegic in a wheel chair. But Reeve still had his mind. This disease could have stolen that from Williams.

While I wish he had not made the decision that he did, I think he would rather us not remember him as a man who could not be himself in the last years of his life.

We should not condone suicide (though I'll admit to being in favor of euthanasia in the right circumstances), we should do our best to understand where people are when they get that desperate, it is the only way to learn how to help others, and it helps us with the grieving processes.

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EW, I was just trying to understand where he might have been, and that is where my thought process led me. Medicine is making huge advantages in nearly every field, and I'm sure hep could have afforded the best.

I wonder if his latest stint into rehab was triggered by the diagnosis or by the symptoms that lead to the diagnosis. I wonder if the diagnosis was a red-hearing thrown out by his wife to side track people from reveling into even more personal areas. I wonder if it would be best for the press to stop bringing it up very other day.

I do know that watching some disintegrate physically or mentally is one the hardest things we do as people. And that my experiences watching that may have left me more sympathetic to the choices he made, even as I disagree with them.

What we should all do is stop judging him, stop judging each other and see how we can help others more.

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Thanks, CW.

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." --Ray Bradbury

In past, I(not only me, almost every Koreans around me) did not show no sympathy to those who commit suicide.
Korean media used to report suicide rate of Japanese in ridicule tone. These days Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world, 1of 280 people commit suicide.
Media says 80% of Korean had considered suicide.

When the news of Robbin's death had been released, I found no one who criticized him. It was apparently different atmosphere comparing to the past case. People talked about his movies and thanked him to give us pleasant cinema times, wishing that he would be in heaven resting in peace. Me, too. No one can judge somebody else. Many religions say suicide is the most unforgivable crime, but I think the God would respect their decisions.

rachel, I hope that in Korea, his death can be used to start a proper discussion of depression, mood disorders, and suicide.

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