{"id":6581,"date":"2014-08-13T12:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2014-08-13T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:02:55","slug":"robin-williams-last-comic-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2014\/08\/robin-williams-last-comic-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Williams: last comic standing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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There\u2019s a meme going around Facebook with Robin Williams in what looks like a hoodie that says: \u201cYou\u2019re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn\u2019t lose it.\u201d
\nThe 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor and comedian died Monday of an \u201capparent suicide.\u201d He is said to have been suffering from a deep depression and has long battled alcohol and drug addiction. As recently as last month, he entered rehab to \u201cfine-tune\u201d his sobriety.<\/p>\n

Williams was also a husband and father. He was no saint, but he made us laugh, and maybe for a little while, forget our own troubles.<\/p>\n

When Philip Seymour Hoffman died in February of a drug overdose, my neighbors on Facebook \u2014 indeed, the country \u2014 were shocked. But one lady lamented that when an actor who has everything he could ever need or want dies suddenly, the whole world mourns. But when our soldiers die in battle, no one says anything.<\/p>\n

It took me a while to understand why this happens. We mourn the sudden, unexpected and tragic deaths of people like Hoffman, Whitney Houston and, now, Williams because we have welcomed them into our homes. They have come with us on vacation with our families when we watched films on airplanes and in hotel rooms; they come to us like magic, as if conjured up by an Internet genie, with a click of the wrist, through Netflix. Their performances make us live through a whole range of emotions and, often, the stories are cathartic. We go to the movies for all kinds of reasons \u2014 when we may be sad, depressed, suffering, or searching for answers \u2014 and there they are.<\/p>\n

Music from singers like Houston becomes the soundtrack of our lives, deeply connected to memories. While I wish we would mourn the tragic deaths of our military men and women, especially in needless wars, we don\u2019t know them. For many years, we have not even been allowed to see them when their caskets arrive at Dover Air Force Base. We would have welcomed them, even if briefly on the news, if we had been allowed to.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a meme going around Facebook with Robin Williams in what looks like a hoodie that says: \u201cYou\u2019re only given a little spark of madness. 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