Posted on 08/13/2014 6:44:45 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Savage had a very good segment about this on his program.
CALLER: Well, it's Des Plaines.
RUSH: Des Plaines. Okay.
--- I always wondered about that, myself.
No. It's Da Plane Da Plane...
One actor, more accurately describing the circumstances, tweeted the following:
"F*** the Red Knight"
He had it all, but he had nothing. He made everybody else laugh but was miserable inside. I mean, it fits a certain picture, or a certain image that the left has. Talk about low expectations and general unhappiness and so forth. Right here it says that one the contributing factors to Robin Williams deciding to kill himself was "survivor's guilt." It's in the headline. I read that and I thought, "Survivor's guilt? What? What survivor's guilt? What?" So I read it, and it turns out that three of his closest friends, the story says -- Christopher Reeve, John Belushi, and Andy Kaufman... The source, unnamed in the story, said that Robin Williams felt guilty that he was still alive while his three friends had died young and much earlier than he had. He could never get over the guilt that they died and he didn't.
Ping to the thread. Could you repost your excellent Solomon citation?
In most places you can’t say it without being considered insensitive, but I have hated the 24 hours of non-stop fawning. For the sake of the weak and desperate the news should have noted his passing and moved on immediately. Give the spotlight to men and women who die for something worthwhile - a soldier, a fireman, a law enforcement officer...
Suicide should not be glorified.
Or at least talk about it as a health tragedy. Someone who was the victim of an illness.
ROFL Wow I believe Herve also committed suicide also many years ago.
Well, that settles that...................
Sorry, I have no sympathy for him (Williams, not Limbaugh).
Yeah - I know. We little people don’t know how tough the rich have it.
People by the thousands, if not millions, admired him.
The man made hundreds of millions in his lifetime but pissed it all away.
Yet in the entertainment world, even a bankrupt, broken down, drugged up, alcoholic has-been like Williams can pretty much have whatever he wants and can live very well if he just shows up for work once in a while.
Yet he let himself get so screwed up in the head he hung himself with his own trouser belt.
CALLER: Well, it's Des Plaines.
RUSH: Des Plaines. Okay.
Clear as mud now, heheh
He didn’t ‘let himself’ do anything. He was mentally ill.
I agree with your sentiments, but your English needs a bit of help:
He hanged himself.
To conjugate the verb:
Is hanged.
Was hanged.
Shall be hanged.
When a man is hung it is not to be discussed in a family oriented forum...
They said that you was hung.
And they was right.
Rush jumped the shark long ago. His rant is nonsensical.
Dealt with a lot of suicides in my time as a Prosecutor. There is never a political component. It is much more complex and usually tied to depression. I have seen Left, Right, Christian, non-Christian, etc suicides. Culture makes no difference. Socio-economic status makes no difference. Politics makes no difference.
No wonder I sopped listening to these so called experts and pundits.
IMO, Rush didn’t say the act of committing suicide was political he said the media coverage of it was political.
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