[ SECRET POST #2788 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2788 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[mekkio]

The guy was just buried. YESTERDAY. Yeah, to speak ill of him so soon would make you a jerk.

[(Anonymous)]

I get the whole "don't speak ill of the dead" thing, but I'm not sure the solution is to pretend that the deceased never did anything wrong. Robin Williams was an incredibly funny, warm, caring man. He made some of the most memorable movies of my childhood. He struggled with depression and substance abuse. And he took other peoples' jokes and used them.

That's the person he was. Stealing jokes doesn't make him evil, it just means he had one hell of a complicated life. That's something we already knew, given that he was one of the funniest people of his generation, but ended life alone and in great pain. I'll grant you this isn't the kind of thing everyone can reconcile, but human beings are an extraordinary mix of the good and the not so good. I don't think that acknowledging that Williams fit into this category is jerky.

[(Anonymous)]

But why, exactly, is it so important to you to slap people in the face with his joke stealing ways right when they're mourning his death? Especially since, as you say yourself, he was an incredibly warm, funny, caring man who made great movies, and stealing jokes only means he was "complicated."

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know who you're talking to, but I haven't slapped anyone in the face with anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe you're not the OP, but it seems to me that you're being deliberately obtuse. When someone is expressing their sadness at the death of someone whom they admired and maybe loved, butting in with "But he STOLE his maTERial back in the SEVenties!" is a slap in the face to them. Why is it important to you to deliver that slap?

[(Anonymous)]

DA--maybe, but if someone says to OP, "I'm shocked and upset that Robin Williams took his own life" and OP says, "whatevs, he stole jokes"--that's a dick move right there and it's what the secret sounded like. There's no need, if someone is upset about Williams' death, to try to make them feel bad for feeling bad.

[(Anonymous)]

He was not buried, he was cremated on 12 August.