Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "ロビン・ウィリアムズ" in Japanese language version.
Susan Schneider said her husband had been sober but "not yet ready to share publicly" his struggles with Parkinson's.
Zelda, however, refused to speculate. "Diseases, until we find out how they work, we don't have an explanation," she said. "So there's no one I can offer." In regards to why her father took her life, she said that that question was "not important to ask," and that she didn't "think there's a point."
Nonetheless, it was this effort to find himself that may lie at the heart of his most valuable gift, says Derek A. Burrill, associate professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside in Calif. "Probably the most important contribution he made to pop culture, across so many different media, was as Robin Williams the person," he says via e-mail.
The scene in which his students recite "O Captain! My Captain," an homage to Walt Whitman's poem, has become an indelible part of pop culture.
This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings," his wife Susan Schneider said in a statement Monday. "I am utterly heartbroken.
The autopsy results found that the actor had taken prescription medications, but in "therapeutic concentrations." The coroner ruled Mr. Williams' death a suicide that resulted from asphyxia due to hanging. His death had been preliminarily ruled a suicide, with sheriff's officials saying he hanged himself with a belt.
Williams used to be a big-drinking cocaine addict, but quit both before the birth of his eldest son in 1983, and stayed sober for 20 years. On location in Alaska in 2003, however, he started drinking again. He brings this up himself, and the minute he does he becomes more engaged.[中略]He didn't take up cocaine again, because "I knew that would kill me". I'd have thought it would be a case of in for a penny – "In for a gram?" he smiles. "No. Cocaine – paranoid and impotent, what fun. There was no bit of me thinking, ooh, let's go back to that. Useless conversations until midnight, waking up at dawn feeling like a vampire on a day pass. No."
After Williams died, it was widely reported that he had been suffering from depression, alcoholism, or both. To Schneider, this shows "how we as a culture don't have the vocabulary to discuss brain disease in the way we do about depression. Depression is a symptom of LBD and it's not about psychology – it's rooted in neurology. His brain was falling apart." Williams had struggled with addictions in the past, but Schneider Williams says that wasn't the problem this time.
Yet, he almost didn't make the movie because he had deep philosophical differences with Disney and its sweeping commercialism. Williams didn't want to become a party to selling Disney-licensed bric-a-brac. / "The one thing I said was I will do the voice," Williams told New York magazine. "I'm doing it basically because I want to be part of this animation tradition. I want something for my children. One deal is, I just don't want to sell anything — as in Burger King, as in toys, as in stuff."
The scene in which his students recite "O Captain! My Captain," an homage to Walt Whitman's poem, has become an indelible part of pop culture.
Yet, he almost didn't make the movie because he had deep philosophical differences with Disney and its sweeping commercialism. Williams didn't want to become a party to selling Disney-licensed bric-a-brac. / "The one thing I said was I will do the voice," Williams told New York magazine. "I'm doing it basically because I want to be part of this animation tradition. I want something for my children. One deal is, I just don't want to sell anything — as in Burger King, as in toys, as in stuff."
Williams used to be a big-drinking cocaine addict, but quit both before the birth of his eldest son in 1983, and stayed sober for 20 years. On location in Alaska in 2003, however, he started drinking again. He brings this up himself, and the minute he does he becomes more engaged.[中略]He didn't take up cocaine again, because "I knew that would kill me". I'd have thought it would be a case of in for a penny – "In for a gram?" he smiles. "No. Cocaine – paranoid and impotent, what fun. There was no bit of me thinking, ooh, let's go back to that. Useless conversations until midnight, waking up at dawn feeling like a vampire on a day pass. No."
Susan Schneider said her husband had been sober but "not yet ready to share publicly" his struggles with Parkinson's.
The autopsy results found that the actor had taken prescription medications, but in "therapeutic concentrations." The coroner ruled Mr. Williams' death a suicide that resulted from asphyxia due to hanging. His death had been preliminarily ruled a suicide, with sheriff's officials saying he hanged himself with a belt.
After Williams died, it was widely reported that he had been suffering from depression, alcoholism, or both. To Schneider, this shows "how we as a culture don't have the vocabulary to discuss brain disease in the way we do about depression. Depression is a symptom of LBD and it's not about psychology – it's rooted in neurology. His brain was falling apart." Williams had struggled with addictions in the past, but Schneider Williams says that wasn't the problem this time.
Zelda, however, refused to speculate. "Diseases, until we find out how they work, we don't have an explanation," she said. "So there's no one I can offer." In regards to why her father took her life, she said that that question was "not important to ask," and that she didn't "think there's a point."
This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings," his wife Susan Schneider said in a statement Monday. "I am utterly heartbroken.
Nonetheless, it was this effort to find himself that may lie at the heart of his most valuable gift, says Derek A. Burrill, associate professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside in Calif. "Probably the most important contribution he made to pop culture, across so many different media, was as Robin Williams the person," he says via e-mail.
Nonetheless, it was this effort to find himself that may lie at the heart of his most valuable gift, says Derek A. Burrill, associate professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside in Calif. "Probably the most important contribution he made to pop culture, across so many different media, was as Robin Williams the person," he says via e-mail.