[mmichaels1970]

"It's the same voice thought that … you're standing at a precipice and you look down, there's a voice and it's a little quiet voice that goes, 'Jump,'" Williams told Sawyer.

"I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation." - Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Very similar. Churchill beat it. Williams didn't. But both conditions were very similar. Churchill was perpetually one bad decision away from the same fate. A horrible way to have to live.

[Albion Wilde]

It’s just that Churchill saved western civilization, and knew he was responsible for the lives of millions. Your comparison is only about fleeting emotions of the type to which Lincoln also admitted. But the responsibility they bore — no comparison.

[dfwgator]

If the story about him having the onset of Parkinson’s Disease is true, I could easily see that being the final straw.