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Robin Williams Commits Suicide

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Spinal Stenosis maybe? Degenerative Disc disease? My mom has had back problems for a while now. Takes Fenanyl patches, morphine and oxycodone. Sometimes decreased activity can add to it, but I'm sure she doesn't feel like doing much activity wise when in pain.

Has she been in to see a doctor to make sure she didn't reinjure the disc or does a fusion prevent that? I don't know exactly the purpose of a fusion.

I'm envisioning a bunch of red hatters sitting around with a bong. Funny image. Personally I would rather take the painkillers than pot for the pain if that will do it. Unless she is an experienced pot user. I don't know that 70 is the time to start if not.
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Spinal stenosis is what I think my mother has and getting surgery to help her out. I am pretty sure that's what it is, but I am not 100% certain. I know she will be in the hospital for at least 7 days after the surgery, but my wife told me about 2 hours ago that my father told her that the doctors want her up and moving around with the therapist the next day.
 
plommer
he feared old age and the accompanying misery more than death. I know exactly what he meant as I feel the same way.

I've watched my parents get old and am now getting to see how much shit they have to deal with as elderly people.
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Fair enough, fair enough.

I still think that someone like RW who goes that route - barring a sudden, terrible health diagnosis - is disturbing.

I know it's a silly assumption to believe that successful celebrities are somehow less vulnerable or subject to misery.

Still.
 
PuckOff
My mother goes for back surgery on the 18th. Same sort of situation. She's a wee bit older. PuckOff told her already that she should be smoking pot, but she won't go for it. Whatever. I think this surgery will be brutal for her. I think she's 74.
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My mom had back surgery at about that age and a fusion on her neck at age 80 or so. Your mom may surprise you. I think in most cases yes they do want them up and walking the next day. I had a microdiscectomy years ago and hell they sent me home the same day even. Walked 2 miles the next day.
 
I have no sympathy for addicts who kill themselves with drugs or hang themselves or whatever. Brock is constantly texting me every 5 minutes about this dope addict or this actor/musician who hung or shot themself and what a tragedy, and why didn't people do more to help them and yada yada. Fuck that noise. Killing yourself is a purely selfish act when there are children involved. I had a good friend whose mother killed herself when she was young.

I used to constantly tell her, "It's not your fault. It's not your fault."

I think I heard it in a movie somewhere.
 
And 22 isn't mid 20's

But more importantly I'm not saying I didn't like some of his films (Goodwill Hunting and One Hour Photo are high on my list) or that he didn't have other good qualities. He was a philanthropist involved with St. Jude and did lots of charity work. I just find it selfish when one has a family and commits suicide.
 
MrX
You're obligated to stay alive if you have any surviving relatives who want you to?
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Certainly not, since this comedian is dead. But when you have a bunch of children you would think you'd consider their feelings when doing something so terrible. I'm not sure why this is so complex a statement.
 
Suicide is a selfish act by definition but I don't get as freaked out about it as a lot of people. If you feel that crappy - that crappy - I consider it the definition of a situation where selfishness is justifiable.

What I would find distastefully selfish is anyone who thinks that someone who is in that much emotional pain has a duty to live with it indefinitely just to avoid upsetting their delicate feelings.

Like I expect you to live for years, perhaps decades, in misery because suicide is a bit more shocking to me than whatever other way you're going to die.

That, to me, would be egregious selfishness.
 
Mudcat
Suicide is a selfish act by definition but I don't get as freaked out about it as a lot of people. If you feel that crappy - that crappy - I consider it the definition of a situation where selfishness is justifiable.

What I would find distastefully selfish is anyone who thinks that someone who is in that much emotional pain has a duty to live with it indefinitely just to avoid upsetting their delicate feelings.

Like I expect you to live for years, perhaps decades, in misery because suicide is a bit more shocking to me than whatever other way you're going to die.

That, to me, would be egregious selfishness.
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