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Robin Williams Dead from Apparent Suicide

Skwim

Veteran Member
Because it doesn't involve another person. It's something you do while masturbating.
I know it doesn't involve another person and that masturbation is involved, but if I'm not mistaken most suicides don't involve other people, which leaves the matter of assuming masturbation was involved. Why?

FYI
"There is no evidence that hypoxyphilia* is a form of disguised suicide. In most cases hypoxyphilic deaths are a complete surprise to family and friends as the deceased was typically in a good mood and giving every indication that they were looking forward to the future."
source

*Hypoxyphilia is a paraphilia which is a sub-category of sexual masochism. Also known by terms such as asphyxiophilia, autoerotic or sexual asphyxia, this potentially lethal sexual practice refers to sexual arousal that is produced while reducing the oxygen supply to the brain.
Source: ibid.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
I know it doesn't involve another person and that masturbation is involved, but if I'm not mistaken most suicides don't involve other people, which leaves the matter of assuming masturbation was involved. Why?

FYI
"There is no evidence that hypoxyphilia* is a form of disguised suicide. In most cases hypoxyphilic deaths are a complete surprise to family and friends as the deceased was typically in a good mood and giving every indication that they were looking forward to the future."
source

*Hypoxyphilia is a paraphilia which is a sub-category of sexual masochism. Also known by terms such as asphyxiophilia, autoerotic or sexual asphyxia, this potentially lethal sexual practice refers to sexual arousal that is produced while reducing the oxygen supply to the brain.
Source: ibid.

Oh, I'm just guessing. I don't really know. It was the first thing that came to mind when I heard he died of hanging. David Carradine and Michael Hutchence both died from autoerotic asphyxiation, too.
 

Wirey

Fartist
Oh, I'm just guessing. I don't really know. It was the first thing that came to mind when I heard he died of hanging. David Carradine and Michael Hutchence both died from autoerotic asphyxiation, too.

Who assumes that? If your mom hurt her back would you assume it was from a kinky sex position? My brother, you need some assitance with your outlook. Not everyone spends all their time killing knuckle children.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Who assumes that? If your mom hurt her back would you assume it was from a kinky sex position?
Well....you're not helping your case by posing this question to us.

My brother, you need some assitance with your outlook. Not everyone spends all their time killing knuckle children.
Suicide still strikes me as the sadder possibility...that's some pretty devastating pain to send him there.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
Who assumes that? If your mom hurt her back would you assume it was from a kinky sex position? My brother, you need some assitance with your outlook. Not everyone spends all their time killing knuckle children.

Because his death is a shock (well, it is to me) and him being in a seated position with a belt around his neck kinda adds to the possibility since people who hang themselves in order to kill themselves usually do it from overhead and not with a belt tied to a doorknob. I'm not the only one to think it might've been that. People are talking about that all over the Internet now.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
Robin Williams once said "Never get into a fight with an ugly person. They have nothing to lose!"
 

Alex_G

Enlightner of the Senses
I’m so very sad to hear the news of Robin Williams. It is truly a tragedy characteristic of modern times; a sobering and melancholic reminder of how broken a world we must live in for this person I associate so strongly with such happiness, laughter and childhood nostalgia to take his own life.

A collective sadness is felt as this light is extinguished and his burden solemnly lifted, yet ever more poignant is the awareness of the countless other lives who share in such silent suffering behind the closed doors of an insensitive and fast paced world.

The truth is one cannot presume to know another person’s innermost reality, or what hurt might lie beneath the smiles. In remembering to bring such mindfulness and consideration to the way you treat all those around you would help make the world a better place and be some positive bit of grace that can be taken away from this tragic story.
 

dawny0826

Mother Heathen
Makes his performance in What Dreams May Come kind of ironic now though.

First thought that crossed my mind too.

Some of my earliest childhood memories involved watching Mork & Mindy with my mother. Robin Williams has always reminded me somewhat of my Dad and is around the same age.

He had a gift and I appreciate the memories with my own family that revolved around his work.
 

Wirey

Fartist
First thought that crossed my mind too.

Some of my earliest childhood memories involved watching Mork & Mindy with my mother. Robin Williams has always reminded me somewhat of my Dad and is around the same age.

He had a gift and I appreciate the memories with my own family that revolved around his work.

You realize how dark that show is now? He committed suicide and she was murdered by her stalker.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Ugh....
Officials: Robin Williams apparently hanged himself - CNN.com
The autopsy completed Tuesday morning showed "no indication of a struggle or physical altercation," which was consistent with the death being a suicide, Boyd said.
The personal assistant found Williams "slightly suspended in a seated position" with a belt around his neck, he said.
Williams' left wrist had cuts when he was found dead in a bedroom at his home, Boyd said. A pocket knife was found near his body, and a red material consistent with dried blood was found on the knife, Boyd said. He said tests will be conducted to determine whether the substance is blood.
That pretty much rules out erotic asphyxiation. And just because his body was in a seated position doesn't mean he had a seat beneath him.
 
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