[KosmicKitty]

I’ve known kids whose parents committed suicide. For the kids, they have been sentenced to hell.

[upchuck]

Good, clarifying article. Thanks.

[Mastador1]

I am going to go who with an addictive personality and manic depression just died for $500 Alex! Why is it necessary for these people to hypothesize his reasons for suicide, especially bringing in a past abortion which he seems to have been just fine with. It’s pretty simple, Williams had a head full of bad wiring that finally shorted beyond repair, so he sent it back to the manufacturer.

[ravenwolf]

I never watched the program Robins Williams was on nor most of the other shows common on every day T.V. but did hear of him.

I knew a 90 plus year old man who shot himself, and have no doubt the reason he ended his life was because he did not want to be a burden to some one else., he was that kind of a man.

Jesus said if you love your life you will lose it, he was not talking about losing this life, he was talking about losing eternal life.

But he said if you lose your life for my sake you will find it, meaning find eternal life.

Every thing else is in between, I have no idea.

[Kickass Conservative]

Williams Wife said today that he had Parkinson's.

Better put Michael J. Fox on Suicide Watch.
(just a little gallows humor)

[Prospero]

Excellent cautionary article. I'm, frankly, impressed with the circumspection most people have expressed (or, perhaps better, refrained from expressing) regarding the RB suicide. It's been almost entirely humble, people looking to themselves and re-examining their own eternal status. Perhaps the only grasping for certainties has come from the Captive Press, and from the Warlocks of Hollywood, "making confident assertions regarding things they know nothing about."

His friend Dennis Miller hung in there for a brief O'Reilly segment Wednesday night and said he needed to "know more," before engaging in more than mere speculation as to 'reasons;' for the moment he was, he said, "in mourning."

His cautionary statement wrapping that segment up was characteristically brilliant, after referring to Williams as "a locus of joy," and a unique person who seemed never to "default to mean, always defaulting to sweet," he said if this kind of dark despairing corner could be reached by the like of Robin Williams, we should each look to ourselves, and tune in to our neighbors, because it could happen to anyone.

"Don't," Miller said, "not make that call."

[aimhigh]

Good article. Now, just imagine the public discussion that would be taking place if he had killed himself with a gun,