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[SpringVelocity]

I find it eerie that he killed himself just before he would be 64. In the "World According to Garp" a movie that really launched Williams the theme song was a Beatles song "when I am 64", It's probably nothing but I do find it weird that he committed sucuide before 64th birthday almost like it was planned.... But we all never know.... Here are the lyrics to that song:

"When I'm Sixty Four"

When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?

You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you

I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight
If it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck & Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
Ho!

 

[Big Green Machine]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5672519

 

[Barnacle Bill]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5672519

A very good read, thanks for that. ......BB

 

[KV1]

I was in a bar many years ago in Van and Robin walked in off the street and decided to entertain everyone off script for over an hour it was UNREAL! No one could leave and it was lined up outside to see. After he stayed beside the bar and drank his club soda talked to people and signed autographs what a champ.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/memorable-quotes-from-robin-williams/article19998847/

 

[Degree of Freedom]

Quite a shocker for sure...also read he checked himself into rehab last month... too bad he never found the help he needed because celebrity or not, suicide is a cowards way out , the most selfish decision one could possibly make, and no matter how hurting he was you can guarantee the hurt he has left for his family is ten fold..

pretty good read for anyone who hasn't experienced depression or watched a loved one suffer through it...

http://www.theguardian.com/science/...lliams-suicide-and-depression-are-not-selfish

 

[jeffywestcoast]

sounds like it was an amazing one off performance for sure... would have been great to see.. bellow is a letter from his daughter on the loss of her father ...

Zelda:

My family has always been private about our time spent together. It was our way of keeping one thing that was ours, with a man we shared with an entire world. But now that's gone, and I feel stripped bare. My last day with him was his birthday, and I will forever be grateful that my brothers and I got to spend that time alone with him, sharing gifts and laughter. He was always warm, even in his darkest moments. While Ill never, ever understand how he could be loved so deeply and not find it in his heart to stay, theres minor comfort in knowing our grief and loss, in some small way, is shared with millions. It doesn't help the pain, but at least its a burden countless others now know we carry, and so many have offered to help lighten the load. Thank you for that.

To those he touched who are sending kind words, know that one of his favorite things in the world was to make you all laugh. As for those who are sending negativity, know that some small, giggling part of him is sending a flock of pigeons to your house to poop on your car. Right after you've had it washed. After all, he loved to laugh too

Dad was, is and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls Ive ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world, but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence. Well just have to work twice as hard to fill it back up again.

 

[Seafever]

Jeffy...sorry,bud....my reaction was a little vitriolic as the whole thing hit pretty close to home as I'm sure it has for all who have been involved in such an event with people they knew, yourself included.

The grief ranges from outright anger to disgust to blame to sadness for the survivors,family and relatives.

Everyone reacts differently.

The question always comes up........"why did they do it?'

We can only guess and postulate what is in the mind of the person at the time they do it.

There are 'tipping points'.......a person can carry and compartmentalize a lot of lifelong pain ....but then something comes along that makes the load just too much bear and pushes them over the edge.....

At any rate it is a grievous loss for the survivors .....

I think a lot of people have the idea that depression isn't really all that bad...and that if the person just changed their attitude and "pulled themselves up by their bootstraps' everything would be fine.

But it goes much deeper than that in many cases..

It would be the same as asking a schizophrenic person to just change their non-medicated attitude and the hallucinations and voices will just go away....

Not going to happen.......

 

[jeffywestcoast]

no worries Seafever.. that's the great thing about a forum we are all entitled to our own opinions and views on any given subject.. sometimes our views can be seen as insensitive but we all have our own reasoning for our opinions and I see no reason why we should not voice them..

 

[ChoveyRoller]

Robin Williams thoughts on Canada....

"You are the kindest country in the world. You are like a really nice apartment over a meth lab."

 

[SpringVelocity]

OMG This was funny was on TV last night.....

[0IDy5GlUuf8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDy5GlUuf8