About Suicide – RIP Robin WIlliams


Heart

We don’t say about someone who jumps from a burning building that we wish they had known how well-loved they were. Despair is like torture. Everybody has a breaking point no matter how loved or brilliant or successful they are.

I am saddened when I read again and again that people wish Robin Williams had known what an inspiration he was and how loved he was and that he should have asked for help. I know it is well-meaning but it is ill-informed and misguided and might be very hurtful to those who did know and love him.

I realize it’s hard for people to understand but try to imagine a pain so excruciating that it can defeat love and hope and possibility. It isn’t a choice made by anyone who feels like they have an alternative.

Have you ever experienced extreme severe pain, like childbirth, being badly burned or your bones breaking?? In that instant of white hot sensation, everything else is obliterated – you can’t hear or see or feel anything else around you.

I believe Robin knew exactly how loved and inspirational and talented he was – and that knowledge probably only caused him more pain because it wasn’t enough.
It probably hurt him terribly to know how much pain his leaving would cause and yet to be so utterly exhausted, bereft of anything more to fight with that surrender was the only answer.

I hope you never have to feel it and can find compassion for someone who experienced such suffering that he had nothing left with which to fight with anymore and had to leave the people he loved and life itself. Heart