RIP RW

Today the world lost yet another comic genius, academy award winner, Robin Williams.  For people of our generation one of their earliest TV memories will be of watching the amazing Mork and Mindy, then growing up with classic films such as Hook, Toys and Mrs Doubtfire; then getting older and realising the wealth of talent Robin Williams really has when watching films such as Good Will Hunting and One Hour Photo.

When someone dies no words can express the emotions, but as the internet floods with quotes and condolences, a rather poignant one stood out that Robin said in an interview a few years ago on Inside the Actors Studio:

‘If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?’

‘The concert begins at 5:00.  It’ll be Mozart, Elvis, and anyone of your choosing.  There’s seating near the front’.

And Classic FM posted this with the comment ‘Farewell Robin Williams. Enjoy the Concert’.

A local Nott’s writer, put on their status in honour of him today, that “if a man as wonderful as you cannot find a way to laugh anymore, then the whole world is fucked”.  To some extent I agree with this and 100% agree with the sentiment, but its forgetting one thing, Robin Williams was suffering from an illness, an illness that is terminal to a higher per cent than people care to acknowledge or think about.  Robin Williams was suffering from Manic Depression, and suicide is a symptom, Robin Williams died of Depression; so to those people out there who have the inhumanity to say that suicide is selfish, consider that for a while.  I am not saying that all suicide is a result of Depression, and some suicides could be seen as selfish.  But Robin died a very poorly man, don’t let how he died detract from his amazing career and life.