Robin Williams won't be down

[snakeyes]

RIP Robin you will be missed :icon_salut:[video=youtube_share;ZUpLUl1nLcY]http://youtu.be/ZUpLUl1nLcY[/video]

 

[Durandal25]

Shocking indeed! I saw him at a burger joint in SF (Bill's Place on Clement and about 26th) about 10 yrs ago and he was just at the table behind us with some folks. No fuss at all. One lady recognized him as she was leaving and said something nice and he responded with a smile and a thank you.

Another time walking with an old GF and her small dogs at Land's End (in SF) this guy in a cap came up and asked if the dogs were some kind of Terrier. We said no, Schnauzers actually. The guy made nice with the dogs, smiled at us and walked away. A few seconds later she stopped, looked at me and asked "was that Robin Williams?" I turned around to look back and that same moment the guy turned around and looked at us smiling.

My old buddy Mike has a daughter that had some major issues when she was born and he was darn near living at UCSF Medical Center during that ordeal. He saw him walking around the halls of the hospital making the rounds with all the sick kids.

RIP Mr. Williams and thanks for all the entertainment.

......when I was about 12, 1982, and lived in Ca, we ran into him on the beach and even though there were like 20 people around him he made time to shake my hand and thanked me for watching his show......Mork and Mindy.....the man was great

 

[furyus]

courage to commit suicide....dude, you need some help, if your reaching out and want to talk to someone, pm me or anyone else here you think might listen, cycle of life happens to us all, we all don't take our lives just because it closes to an end, but I agree, loneliness is something I guess some people are to weak to deal with, but talk like yours says you need help.

Nah I'm good. I just have a different view on the subject. Of all the things people have no control over, maybe deciding when to call it quits is something people should have the right to consider
. So no I don't need any rescuing. I'm fine.

 

[old_skool]

Nah I'm good. I just have a different view on the subject. Of all the things people have no control over, maybe deciding when to call it quits is something people should have the right to consider
. So no I don't need any rescuing. I'm fine.

good to hear, having the right to decide to end your life maybe when you have an illness with a death sentence might be another whole subject for discussion, but to just take ones life out of loneliness, or other less than terminal physical presence...is still not normal considering the hard wiring survival instinct all animals have, and you may call it my own .02 but I bet I'm in the majority of this thinking.
Needing help or not, anytime you want to just shoot the S***, drop me a line.

 

[Herr_Poopschitz]

...or had some serious mental issues.

How very insightful.

I've seen people who's life almost gives them the right to commit such an act come back from serious adversity, and then there's those who give up with little reason to do so. Like DennisH, I still think its a selfish and cowardly way out.

It seems pretty obvious to me and I'm disappointed to have to remind grown men of this, but it all goes back to the old saying of 'Until you've walked a mile in another man's shoes...'.

 

[snakeyes]

its very sad that a person takes there own life ,but no one knows what was going through Robins mind , don't label him as a coward ,but remember him for what he was a very good comedian he had entertained us all trough the years [video=youtube_share;EbEBErvW-Uc]http://youtu.be/EbEBErvW-Uc[/video]

 

[old_skool]

'Until you've walked a mile in another man's shoes...'.

bullcrap, I don't have to jump off a 10 story building to know it hurts, and I've known people with serious reasons to want to end it, but found the courage to live, you can take the devils advocate to create an argument about anything, this really isn't one of them that benefits anyone.

 

[wedge69]

So SAD ! RIP Robin !:icon_frown:

 

[Herr_Poopschitz]

bullcrap, I don't have to jump off a 10 story building to know it hurts, and I've known people with serious reasons to want to end it, but found the courage to live, you can take the devils advocate to create an argument about anything, this really isn't one of them that benefits anyone.

I'm not sure what 'devils advocate' has to do w/ anything. Just saying you don't know the circumstances. Empathy and trying to understand either the psychological or biological reasons for such an act might be more constructive than simple name calling.

 

[old_skool]

I'm not sure what 'devils advocate' has to do w/ anything. Just saying you don't know the circumstances. Empathy and trying to understand either the psychological or biological reasons for such an act might be more constructive than simple name calling.

you call it name calling, I call it more a descriptive action, lets not fight over personal opinions, we're all allowed to express them, but when you attack a persons opinion just because you disagree or dislike it, you derail a thread, no one has to agree with my opinion, but I'm entitled to it, I've seen on more than one thread you've taken your opinion to such extremes to act if they don't see your point of view you criticize their ability to even have an intelligent thought, you like to beat people down, for example, your use of words..."grown men..." like we must all have the minds of children, go ahead, pizz some more on this thread, make it your own.

 

[Herr_Poopschitz]

Sorry for 'derailing the thread' by asking you to try to actually understand the mind or circumstances of the deceased rather than simply calling him a 'coward'. How dare I.

Keep doing a disservice to the mentally ill. You're 'entitled' to it.

 

[snakeyes]

[video]http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/robin-williams-death-a-video-montage-of-his-best-performances-2014118[/video]

 

[old_skool]

Sorry for 'derailing the thread' by asking you to try to actually understand the mind or circumstances of the deceased rather than simply calling him a 'coward'. How dare I.

no one said there wasn't underlying circumstances, even comments were made to that being a possibility, but back to your how dare I crap, more condescension.

a quote I read I like to share.
You can never expect things to get better if you don't try to improve them. Self harm doesn't make you brave, or powerful, saying that it does glorifies suicide. "To die, it`s easy... But you have to struggle for life."- MAUS a survivors tale

My last comment on the matter, I apologize as well to the readers of this thread and to the OP.

I'm truly sorry for his family, for Robin, just saddened he had no one worth living for, especially himself.

 

[snakeyes]

[video=youtube_share;nIWB-Neyj-c]http://youtu.be/nIWB-Neyj-c[/video]

 

[sleepar]

Great man in so many ways... could have been accidental or a set up... I wasn't there. Does seem out of character for an man who brought such great joy to millions and could spin it to purposely take his own life... when im gone I will ask him myself till then Im going to believe there's more to the story...
The greatest of my generation... didn't have to be dirty to be funny.... Rip

 

[old_skool]

[video=youtube;KW2jSLuHlz4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KW2jSLuHlz4[/video]

 

[Furyous]

Sad to see anyone take their life. Being a believer I cannot ever condone someone doing this as it is the one sin that you cannot repent from. It is a sign of weakness not courage to do this..

Just my opinion..

 

[Herr_Poopschitz]

It has to do w/ mental illness. It has nothing to do w/ being a 'coward' or 'weak'.

It's like saying people who die from cancer have decided they're too weak to live.

The man entertained millions (billions?) around the world, raised millions (billions?) of dollars for charities to help people worldwide, and from many accts was a genuinely nice guy.

Those of you saying he's 'weak'...what have you done?

 

[coronet340]

I was trying to stay out of this.

First off RIP Mr. Williams, he is one of the first actors that I ever remembered.

Second, in our day and age there is no excuse for actions like this. It is selfish. I have no sympathy for drug addicts, no even the one's in my life. They make a conscious choice to swallow that pill or stick that needle in their arm. Addiction is an excuse. Me, I'm an alcoholic, 3rd generation on one side, 4th generation on the other. I chose to control my addiction rather then it control me. Nobody is forced to do drugs except by their own psyche.

To choose suicide over help is selfish. What about his daughter, his wife, his other family and friends? By killing himself he changed all their lives. There's always a choice.

 

[old_skool]

Don't engage him, I've already reported to the site for trolling to incite an argument, he's only trying to do what he always does, just let him rant.