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Old 08-11-2014, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Fripples View Post
Everyone realizes that he killed himself, correct? He didn't just *die.* Like he would have woken up tomorrow, heart beating normally, all bodily functions working, not blind, not deaf, all his limbs attached, etc., had he not killed himself. No one seems to think that's a bit, oh I dunno...SELFISH?
My initial reaction was to blast you. I want to call you ignorant (among other things), but it would be presumptuous of me to say that. Maybe it's just that you really don't understand what it feels like to think that you have no hope. That you have no one that you can turn to. That you don't matter.

Williams' death is tragic, at least to me. I don't have a particular emotional attachment to him, but I do know that a tremendously talented, beautiful life was cut short. It hurts to think that he found himself in a place where he felt he had no other option. Believe me, being selfish was the last thing on his mind.
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