Wolfsister77
Knowledge Is Power
Conversations are two way streets though. "It's not your place to judge", STFU, "fuck you" and all the rest his superfans offer up is not a conversation. By the time people are permitted to discuss it, the people you want to be having that conversation with have moved their attention elsewhere. If you are not open to other people's perspectives, they are not going to be open to yours.
I am open to any other perspectives but this kind of thing always elicits strong reactions from people.
Not every issue has a one-size fits all warm-fuzzy solution. Making excuses for/rationalizing/covering up Robin Williams' behavior is part of a culture that enables the mentally ill to engage in reckless behavior of their own--like self-medicating with street drugs and alcohol instead of seeking/continuing proper therapy. Likewise, discussing the negatives about his decision to kill himself and the manner in which he did it might cause someone contemplating the same to think about it a bit longer, giving them more time to weather their current storm. Nonetheless, the enablers and obsessive control freaks don't want anybody thinking, speaking, acting in any manner that does not meet with their approval, thereby costing an opportunity to possibly have a constructive conversation under the guise that it is impolite, rude, classless, etc. as if they do not otherwise conduct themselves the same way the rest of the year regarding the living.
Like I said, I'm open to other viewpoints. I object to the notion that those contemplating suicide are selfish or terrible people for killing themselves.
It isn't enabling anyone to point out the seriousness of this disease.
Don't you think if someone reading this was thinking along those lines and saw a lot of the negative garbage, they would be discouraged?
I'd rather be empathetic here.