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Sheriff's officials defend decision to release details of Robin Williams' death
Fox News ^ | 8-14-2014

Posted on 08/14/2014 5:18:02 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

“Mr. Williams' personal assistant… [found] Mr. Williams clothed in a seated position, unresponsive, with a belt secured around his neck with the other end of the [belt] wedged between the… closet door and the door frame," Boyd told the media. "His right shoulder area was touching the door with his body perpendicular to the door and slightly suspended.”

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21 posted on 08/14/2014 5:57:25 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: bgill

He didn’t hang himself while seating.

He put a belt in the door jam and then slumped so that his weight caused him to suffocate.

His body then slumped into a position that looked much like he was in a seated position.

That is commitment and I can imagine his emotions so high and while crying his endorphins took over enabling him to strangle himself.

Just sad.


22 posted on 08/14/2014 5:59:08 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Popman

What I mean is how can you be in a seated position, with a belt around your neck, with the belt in a closed door, with one shoulder touching the door, and your body perpendicular to the door? Its like playing twister, so how can his body be straight perpendicular to a door? I need a stick figure drawing to visualize this. If maybe his back was to the door, then I guess one shoulder could touch the door and one would touch the wall on the same plane of the door - that would put his legs perpendicular. So why not say his back was to the door. But if just the legs were perpendicular the upper body would be parallel. Unless he was lying down, but they said he was in a seated position. Its guesome because he killed himself - suicide is always gruesome.


23 posted on 08/14/2014 5:59:41 PM PDT by Citizen Zed ("Freedom costs a buck o five" - Gary Johnston, TAWP)
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To: bgill

“The Ruling Class”


24 posted on 08/14/2014 6:00:35 PM PDT by gasport (President Omoeba needs to evolve a spine)
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To: bgill
After further review, I think I understand what is being said here. He had a length of belt that allowed him to have his feet on the floor. He strangled himself by dropping his butt down. He ended up in a sitting position because the belt length was long enough for his feet to be on the floor but short enough to keep his butt slightly elevated off the floor. So he ended up in a sitting position while still being suspended.

The one thing about doing it that way, however, is that you would have to overcome the urge to stand up which prevent the hanging.

The only other explanation would be that he was able to drop violently enough to break his neck which seems unlikely.

25 posted on 08/14/2014 6:01:13 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: a fool in paradise
God I don't want to see them.He committed suicide?
26 posted on 08/14/2014 6:03:23 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: MarMema

I wonder if he may have had Lewy Body Disease, which can cause Parkinson’s symptoms, and is sometimes misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s.

A link for those who do not know about it;

https://caregiver.org/dementia-lewy-bodies


27 posted on 08/14/2014 6:09:03 PM PDT by jacquej ("It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.")
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To: johniegrad

He could have taking sleeping pills. Not enough to kill him but enough to go to sleep with a belt around his neck. Thus he died in his sleep.


28 posted on 08/14/2014 6:15:30 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: fatima

Lenny ODed. Some ODs are suicide but I don’t think in Lenny’s case. He was sprawled out on the floor.

There are photos of the covered gurney in Marilyn’s case and some photos from the morgue, but I don’t think any photos of her on the bed ever came out.

Her autopsy report was published in the sixties though.

Part of the controversy over Marilyn’s death is if the POTUS and AG could have a big Hollywood star whacked (or at least interfere in the investigation of her death and steal her diary), then anyone in America could be “touched”.


29 posted on 08/14/2014 6:15:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

That is an angle I hadn’t thought about, thanks...I always analyze these situations for details.


30 posted on 08/14/2014 6:18:02 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
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To: MarMema

Parkinsons would have destroyed his great abilities as a stream-of-consciousness comic...how sad. I guess it was just a bridge too far for him. :-(

I watched a short clip of an appearance of Williams on the Craig Ferguson show today...it was wonderful. They are both rapid fire stream-of-consciousness comics and they were at their best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw9Evwb1vtQ

And from a week earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkx4S_MUaG0


31 posted on 08/14/2014 6:24:17 PM PDT by Bobalu (Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented)
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To: a fool in paradise
True,gotta look up Lenny.The woman I am talking about married a divorced man who's first wife committed suicide.
32 posted on 08/14/2014 6:26:14 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: a fool in paradise

Found it.
http://lamorguefiles.blogspot.com/2014/08/comedian-lenny-bruce-ovewrdose-1966.html


33 posted on 08/14/2014 6:38:47 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Bobalu

His wife said he was losing exercise abilities, which was what he did to fight depression and anxiety. And I think that was the end of the road for him.


34 posted on 08/14/2014 7:56:45 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: a fool in paradise

I found it.Don’t look if you get upset easy.She had 2 children-little in other rooms of the house.
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5zakditAA1qlirvbo1_500.jpg


35 posted on 08/14/2014 7:58:22 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Bobalu
then there is this

"Perfect Storm': Parkinson's Disease May Worsen Depression"

Thanks for the links to watch later!!!

36 posted on 08/14/2014 8:06:06 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Citizen Zed

Transparency dontchya know.


37 posted on 08/14/2014 8:30:41 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Popman

“Not really..... Taking a picture of your seven year old holding a severed head is gruesome.....”

What’s even more gruesome are Muzzie members of ISIS (ISIL if you prefer) holding severed heads of seven year olds on pikes.


38 posted on 08/14/2014 8:30:58 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: Vendome; MinuteGal

“He didn’t hang himself while seating.
He put a belt in the door jam and then slumped so that his weight caused him to suffocate.
His body then slumped into a position that looked much like he was in a seated position.”

Mick Jagger’s model girlfriend of many years (L’Wren) killed herself in the same exact way just a couple of months ago.


39 posted on 08/14/2014 8:34:47 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: bgill

How do you hang yourself while sitting down?

* * *

Apparently this is the new thing in suicide circles. That woman designer who killed herself a few mnths ago did the same thing. It seems you can wedge a belt into a door, then sit down and as long as you’re suspended a bit off the ground, that’s enough. Maybe it wouldn’t even hurt, if you put the belt around your neck and just kind of leaned in a bit at a time. You might just get hazy around the edges and then pass out. I would think it would take great determination, though.


40 posted on 08/14/2014 8:35:10 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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