tmz reports on williams: "Parkinson's a factor in suicide but not the cause"

[orleans]

http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/15/robin-williams-depression-parkinson-disease-suicide-death/

[jberryhill]

1. I for one, have every intention of eventually checking out voluntarily

Absent compelling interest in seeing how, for example, a season of Survivor pans out, or some other pending development here on Earth, I don't have any great interest in experiencing the progression of a progressive terminal illness.

[Skittles]

4. I agree with you there

absolutley

[malaise]

5. +1,000 n/t

[Prophet 451]

6. Agreed

I watched Alzheimers turn my grandfather from a robust, energetic man to a frightened child. Being diagnosed with that has always been a fear of mine. Should it happen, I'll go out quietly, with a glass of whiskey in hand and Mozart on the radio.

[GeorgeGist]

2. NO SHIT.

TMZ no less.

[cleduc]

3. Good article by Dick Cavett on this

http://time.com/3106170/robin-williams-dead-dick-cavett-suicide-depression/
who was an entertainer who suffered from manic depression