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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They just announced Robin Williams was in the early stages of Parkinson's....

http://www.nbcwashington.com//news/national-international/Robin-WIlliams-Wife-271277681.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DCBrand[/quote]

Lots of people have Parkinson's, but none I know of has taken his or her own life. It's a terrible disease, but you can live with it for a long time, and have a decent life until the very end. My relative had it for 20 years. The end was bad, but about 19.5 years were pretty good.

We should have had Robin Williams for another 20 years, at least, and of course his family deserved to have him even more. The notes from his children are so very sad.

It's so confounding when someone takes his own life. I knew a woman with bipolar disease who killed herself shortly after the birth of her second child. She had a great career, husband, family, but the disease killed her. It was a true tragedy because so many people knew and loved and depended on her (she was a physician).

Robin Williams died of mental illness, not alcoholism or drug abuse. He was not in his right mind, was not capable of making rational decisions. He was in pain and wanted out, and didn't see another avenue. That's what mental illness does to the human mind -- it shorts out reason and turns everything painful and black.

It's confounding that someone so intelligent could be so impaired that he couldn't find another way out before making an irrevocable decision. But that's what happened to the woman I knew. She'd been in the hospital for her disease, was treated, her physician said she was well enough to leave, and the very next day she killed herself.

RW did seek treatment recently, but obviously it wasn't enough to save him. But don't judge him or his family. He was a kind, generous person who was afflicted by a terrible disease that in the end, took him away from us, just as cancer or any other fatal disease does. We don't blame people for dying of cancer, and we should not blame him for dying of mental illness. He'd sought help, and I'm sure his family did their best to help him.

His death is a tragedy and a great loss to all of us who delighted in his humor for all these many years.

Rest in peace, Robin. And blessings to his family. [/quote]

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