Robin Williams Dead From Suspected Suicide - Update

[Fairly Chaotic]

The world is truly lessened by this loss. Rest in peace Mr. Williams. You will be missed.

I'm going to go watch Good Will Hunting.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

I don't know what to say about this, except maybe I'm gutted to hear about it, feels like a part of my childhood just died (

Rest in piece Mr Williams. You will be missed.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

He was in two of the greatest movies ever made.

Fisher King was arguably Terry Gilliam's best crafted movie.

And Popeye is hands down the best musical ever made and hasn't been topped in 30 years.

 

[Silk_Sk]

What, no mention of Hook? That's the first movie I'm going to re-watch and enjoy in his memory.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Asphyxiation. Haven't heard more beyond that.

Am I the only one considering that this might be another case of auto-erotic asphyxiation gone awry and his agent is merely pushing the suicide angle to save his reputation?

Just saying (I'm so sorry).

Fairly certain that was actually the basic plot of one of his movies, "Worlds Greatest Dad" I believe.

Anyway, really sad to hear the news and I recommend other fans head over to wtfpod.com Marc Maron did an incredible interview with Mr Williams a few years ago and its been put up for free, well worth a listen.

 

[marioandsonic]

I can't really express how sad this is, so I'm just going to reference this part of Christopher Reeve's Wikipedia page, on what happened shortly after his accident:

Reeve went through inner anguish in the ICU, particularly when he was alone during the night. His approaching operation to reattach his skull to his spine "was frightening to contemplate. ... I already knew that I had only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery. ... Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent." The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve. It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months. Reeve wrote: "For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay."

That's right, Robin Williams was able to cheer Superman up.

RIP

 

[Magmarock]

This is just too depressing. I favourite role would probably be the gene from Aladdin. He was a bit like that in real life too adding a little bit of magic in the roles he was cast in. Will forever miss Robb.

 

[tzimize]

He probably watched one of his stand up routines and decided to do the right thing.

You know....there is a lot of stuff that could be said about this post. But I'm honestly not gonna bother. Williams brought joy to millions. Whats your contribution except bile?

 

[SweetShark]

Dear Internet: The best way to honor Robin Williams' life is to maybe *not* draw 10,000 shitty pictures of Aladdin crying over an empty lamp

Wait, don't tell me this is a new Meme or something cause of this?
If it is, I will flip the sh*t and everything else in my room. When I will leave my workplace of course....

 

[Ishigami]

I was just re-watching Insomnia yesterday on Amazon Prime?

Dead Poets Society is probably my favorite movie with him, should have won the Oscar for that. A very close second would be Good Morning Vietnam.

Well too bad, farewell.

 

[Lieju]

Dear Internet: The best way to honor Robin Williams' life is to maybe *not* draw 10,000 shitty pictures of Aladdin crying over an empty lamp

Wait, don't tell me this is a new Meme or something cause of this?
If it is, I will flip the sh*t and everything else in my room. When I will leave my workplace of course....

I don't think it's exactly a meme.
Just that many people felt it was a fitting tribute since Aladdin was a big part of their childhood and William's performance in it was memorable.

 

[SweetShark]

Dear Internet: The best way to honor Robin Williams' life is to maybe *not* draw 10,000 shitty pictures of Aladdin crying over an empty lamp

Wait, don't tell me this is a new Meme or something cause of this?
If it is, I will flip the sh*t and everything else in my room. When I will leave my workplace of course....

I don't think it's exactly a meme.
Just that many people felt it was a fitting tribute since Aladdin was a big part of their childhood and William's performance in it was memorable.

I will give it a time. If this indeed happen, to become a meme I mean, I will start snif every kind of smelly things around my house to finally accept this reality of Internet.
And I have weirds fetishes, so this is an achievement saying that.....

 

[byte4554_v1legacy]

When I heard the news, my heart sank. Robin Williams was somewhat of a hero of mine, for being such a kind, funny, comedian, actor, and human being.
May he rest happily, and peacefully.

 

[Riotguards]

i guess we can count flubber 2 out of the count : /

 

[Wereduck]

Asphyxiation. Haven't heard more beyond that.

Am I the only one considering that this might be another case of auto-erotic asphyxiation gone awry and his agent is merely pushing the suicide angle to save his reputation?

Just saying (I'm so sorry).

You're not the only one to hear "asphyxiation"& "suicide" and be concerned. This was completely out-of-the-blue for me and my first thought was that he deserved better. I doubt it's PR spin though, it would be a hell of a coincidelnce for an accident like that to happen while he was going through a depressive episode.
At least I hope so. I wasn't a fan but no matter what you think of him as a performer, aside from Ariel Castro I can't think of anyone who'd deserve to die that way.

 

[BarkBarker]

It tends to be the zanier, always happy appearing people who have skeletons in their closet, I've found that many comics who go towards this sort of act of comedy battle with depression more often than not, although this is just personal perception.

 

[draigodragon]

... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~ "infinity"

"sniff" >:'''( god dammit...

 

[Kyber]

No one laughs when the funny man runs out of jokes.

 

[LobsterFeng]

2014 has been a pretty depressing year.

 

[FalloutJack]

My girlfriend told me about this yesterday. Massive derail on the Jack-brain. He's one of my favorites. I didn't ask for this... I'll never understand depression. You're a success and the idol of millions, a comic legend. Why would you die when there's a life of comfort and everything...? (To understand where I'm coming from, my father had a clinically-depressed friend who was just plain always depressed. He died recently, but it was natural causes. So, it's hard for me to understand how a man who's up there in lights would go down like that.)