I understand that everyone is coping with the death of Robin Williams in their own way, but I request that those using the glorified euphemism “he’s free” please re-consider. In my view, Robin Williams is not “free” and flying around like Aladdin’s Genie. He is dead and lying lifeless in a morgue. I think we do a terrible disservice to him and to the thousands of men and women contemplating suicide this day to glorify the very sad choice that he made. I do not blame him for his choice, as I have not walked a mile in his shoes and I believe he was severely suffering from his depression, but there are thousands of depressed people contemplating ending their lives today, and I don’t believe it is wise for us to embellish that particular option with pretty metaphors and funny cartoon characters, or to glorify suicide as a some kind of master escape to freedom by talking about it in emotionally disconnected terms such as “he’s free now”. Robin William’s battle with depression is certainly over, but hes not free. He cannot do the things he once loved to do when he was alive. He cannot speak to us, teach us, touch our hearts, or make us laugh, and he can no longer hold his family in his arms, nor can they hold him. Being dead may have ended his long struggle, but only at the EXTREME and ultimate cost of EVERYTHING ELSE that mattered to him, including the future that he could have shared with us. No matter what belief a person may have about an afterlife (or lack thereof), death is the ultimate termination of one’s freedom as a human on Earth. That truth is sobering and frightening. It should be. Robbin Williams is not free. He paid the price, but without counting the costs.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:39:39 +0000
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