Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "Robin Williams reacts to fans impressions | The Graham Norton Show - BBC" video.

IIsuperstarII He was indeed eminently approachable. I used to work in a bookstore in West Hollywood, and he came in one day. After spending a little while helping him find what he was looking for and making some recommendations, I took a chance and told him how much joy he'd brought me. He smiled and thanked me, saying he'd been having a bad day and my comment had made him feel so much better. He was a lovely soul, and the world is darker without him.
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What happened to Robin was not depression. He did not kill himself because of bad self-image, or painful past, or even a medicable psychiatric condition. Robin had Lewy bodies, an actual neurological disease wherein the brain literally eats holes in itself. All the love and care and support would not have saved him. He and his wife knew it, and knew it was only a matter of time before he died in terror and pain. He decided to go before then and spare himself and his family what was coming. His wife has said as much, and that if he hadn't done what he did, he would have lost the ability to recognize anyone, lost the ability to speak, and the ability to be anything except fearful and in pain. He didn't deserve that. He took the Roman road instead.
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