• EtherWhack@lemmy.world
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    The thing with Robin is that, regardless of his mental health, he would’ve been the type of person to curse the choice of bringing someone back to be wasted on him.

    While it is commonly believed he took his life due to a constant battle with depression, we do not know exactly what his resolve was, and bringing him back could be seen as hell in his eyes.

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      It wasn’t depression. He was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

      He allegedly took his life so he wouldn’t slowly lose himself, and become a burden on his family.

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        Parkinson’s, actually. They corrected it to LBD during his autopsy.

        Apparently him and his wife weren’t satisfied with the Parkinson’s diagnosis as he had some abnormal psychological issues, so they decided to have some neurology tests scheduled. He unfortunately took his life before the appointment, so he never knew the real diagnosis.

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    Would Anomalocaris actually do well in the modern world. I feel like they probably wouldn’t do so well in the modern ecosystems of much more evolved marine creatures. Would get out-competed very quickly, and likely face plenty of other challenges. Being out-competed is likely the reason they went extinct in the first place.

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      Whoever downvoted you, has never seen actual Robin Williams Standup or knows much about his political views.

      Robin hated Bush Sr. and Jr., especially Jr., with a passion.

      trump would send him off the deep end, as you suggested.

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        He didn’t kill himself. He said many times that he would eventually commit suicide to prevent himself from developing terminal illnesses, but he always clarified that he wouldn’t even consider it if he still had work to do, aka his personal projects. He had two personal projects in the works when he was killed. He just knew too much and was way too vocal about it.

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      If resurrection heals the maladies he was suffering from, Robin would absolutely hate Trump and use that energy to put out at least 2 more non-cocaine fueled comedy specials, and passibly one that was cocaine or extacy fueled.

      He wouldn’t commit suicide again if all his personal memory/physical problems weren’t an issue. If he hadn’t had LBD, he would have become the second Grandpa of Comedy, succeeding Carlin.

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    As much as I would love for Robin Williams to be back and brightening the world again it would be incredibly selfish of us to forget that he was incredibly unhappy in life and killed himself in a very unpleasant way because of it.

    So definitely the centipede.

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    Science memes are supposed to be funny, not make people cry.

    R.I.P Robbie

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      Great, now I see priests and quire boys doing pottery class tigether in church under the guidance of Unchained Melody on the organ.

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        I shall read now from the Book of Dalton: Chapter Three, Verse Four…

        “Be nice. Until it’s time… to not be nice.”

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    Robin Williams, but he comes back fully cured of everything and he gets to live a full life happy.

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    Robin Williams had a degenerative nerve disease, bringing him back as he was would be cruel.

    Bringing him back healed, or young and healed? I’d let you hunt some species to extinction for that.

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        I’ll give him a select list of hearts I want him to dance-fight his way through.

        Subtitle A: “The dancing just went from ‘dirty’ to ‘deadly’.”

        Subtitle B: “Watch out, he’s changed his shoes.”

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    Paul Walker died cause him and his friend were speeding and street racing. Similar to Ryan Dunn who died drunk driving. I think it’s been long enough to call them out and remind people they didn’t die as heroes, they died being idiots and luckily didn’t kill a bunch of innocent people with them

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    I normally don’t care when celebrities pass away. But I genuinely cried when Robin Williams died. And I’m still sad about it.