What's with all of the victim blaming? You have NO idea what kind of pressures Robin Williams was under. You can speculate all you want. But you truly don't know what his situation was.
Do any of you have any idea what kind of hell it is to live with severe chronic depression? I do. Because I live with it. I feel suicidal daily. Yes, just about EVERY SINGLE DAY. I cannot control this thought no matter how hard I try. My brain is messed up. I realize that and I'm on strong medication to make living bearable. It's impossible to work and get anything done. Some days I can't even get out of bed.
Anyone that says "don't do this to your family" is speaking out of their ass and doesn't really have a clue what depression is like.
"Suicide is falling from a burning building
The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. the person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be or you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains constant. the variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s the terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling “Don’t!” and “Hang on!”, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling." ~ David Foster Wallace