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RIP Robin Williams

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ICanSeeTheSun · 12/08/2014 00:15

I know it's not the right thing to do, but I am devastated. I can not belive i have switched onto the news to go to bed and just seen this. That poor family

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Jux · 13/08/2014 02:05

RIP Robin. You will be sadly missed. Condolences to his family, my thoughts are with you.

DeathStar · 13/08/2014 03:40

Can't sleep tonight - currently watching 'Robots' (he voiced 'Fender')

RIP xxx

OneSkinnyChip · 13/08/2014 12:38

RIP Robin :( I loved The Fisher King (it's on Netflix). When I first saw it I thought his performance was amazing - he really understood that damaged character.

limitedperiodonly · 13/08/2014 15:36

I hope this is okay by MN rules - I've no commercial interest at all.

Secret Cinema is doing a Robin Williams tribute performance of Dead Poets Society in East London on Friday with all proceeds going to MIND.

Here's the info

It's sold out already but they are asking people who want to set up their own events to get in touch. I don't know exactly what that means but people might be interested and even if they can't set up an event, they could still give time or money to MIND.

I think there's a link to the organisers on the link I've given. I'm sure they'll have more info. I have nothing more.

Sorry if it breaks the rules but it seemed like such a lovely thing to do.

limitedperiodonly · 13/08/2014 15:46

I should have said all profits, not all proceeds.

mrspremise · 13/08/2014 19:54

Oh Captain, my Captain...

spiderlight · 13/08/2014 20:29

I have loved Robin Williams since Mork and Mindy. Loved The Fisher King and Dead Pooets' Society especially. He always seemed like such a genuinely lovely man and the world will be a little bit darker without him in it.

Blondeshavemorefun · 13/08/2014 23:14

so very sad :(

people say robin was selfish for committing suicide and didnt think about his family and should have got help/counselling etc

Knowing sadly first hand (my dh comitted suicide just over 3years ago) the devastation of being left behind I can assure you the last thought in robins mind would have been what happens to those who are left

When someone is in such a sad dark place that the only way out for them is to kill theirselves , all the counselling and help in the world just isn't enough x

AdoraBell · 14/08/2014 03:40

I'm sorry for your loss Blondes

Some people are stupidAngry RW had been getting help in various forms for years and as you sadly know no amount of help helps when someone is in the depths of such sever depression.

bigbuttons · 14/08/2014 08:51

It's so very awful. What saddens me the most is that, despite his fame and wealth, he wasn't able to get effective help. Who knows, perhaps he was surrounded by snake oil doctors. The reach and famous often are.

TheFirmament · 14/08/2014 08:59

Sometimes severe depression is about experiencing literally unbearable feelings. That's why it can lead to alcoholism and drug addiction, for example - because they are a way to blot out the feelings. But those things cause harm to loved ones too and RW tried really, really hard to beat them too.

Maybe all the treatments he had and efforts he made earlier helped him live as long as he did and do the work he did and have the relationships and family he had. Maybe he did well, considering.

deakymom · 14/08/2014 10:18

so sad he is gone he tried to help himself went back into rehab and everything in the end though.....................poor man

windchime · 14/08/2014 10:42

I can't wait for the day when a celebrity dies, and everyone on MN declares how much they hated him/her Wink

HesterShaw · 14/08/2014 11:44

Thatcher came pretty close.

HesterShaw · 14/08/2014 11:46

Seriously though, you appear to be implying a bit that people are jumping on the bandwagon. I prefer to think that if there are people out there who didn't like Robin Williams, then they are decent enough to not come on a thread which pays tribute to him and his life, and say so. The same as it is with many recently deceased famous people.

UriGeller · 14/08/2014 11:57

That's lovely TheFirmament. That's very likely.

UriGeller · 14/08/2014 12:10

Has anyone seen this? I've found it a comfort and a brilliant articulation of my own thoughts about death.

you want a physicist to speak at your funeral

HQstolemyname · 14/08/2014 13:11

Uri, that's lovely. Yes, that's what I want at my funeral, and I am thinking of my two young dead cousins, my dead parents, and my dead little brother, and I know they're all around me somewhere just less orderly which suits them all very well.

TheFirmament, I agree with your second para. RW did well.

Thanks
ExitPursuedByAKoalaBear · 14/08/2014 14:28

That reminds me of the way death is treated in the Phillip Pulman trilogy His Dark Materials. The Golden dust that swirls through the universes is made up of the particles of everyone who has ever lived. I think.

ExpectedlyMediocre · 14/08/2014 14:35

What? I just did a search and this didn't come up? Confused

YY, RIP sir you will be very missed.

Thanks his friends and family

limitedperiodonly · 14/08/2014 16:01

That's lovely uri Thanks for that. I've shared it with a friend who I'm sure would like it.

I think that when you're dead, you're gone, and that doesn't hurt me. Well, my loss does, but it's enough for me to remember those people. But if other people are searching, then maybe the ideas in your link might comfort them.

It's wonderful that some people of faith also accept science and find comfort there, not hostility. I have no faith but I don't see why science and faith are incompatible.

Itsfab · 14/08/2014 19:33

So so sad

partialderivative · 14/08/2014 19:50

I wasn't a great fan of RW, but I recognized him as a comic genius.

Why is it that so many comedic geniuses are so sad in their own lives.

Is it the anguish that produces the humour.

(Sorry if this has been asked before)

FrankelandFilly · 14/08/2014 19:54

partial, the BBC did a good article on the link between comedy and depression: www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28753326