You want to mourn Mork more than ...say a double amputee veteran returning from Afghanistan because he made you laugh. Or a person who was diagnosed with depression and tried to end their life due to being homeless as a child to a drug addicted mother and being raped repeatedly by her mom's drug dealer? Yeah, this second person "turned it around" with help from me. I do not think anyone gets a special pass in life. We all feel pain.
That's the bottom line here.
I say B.S. to your need to make special dispensation for the rich and famous. I agree only with you in that all life is precious. But that's it. The rest of your post is just making excuses for behavior that needs none, on behalf of someone who did, in fact, have it all. You see, we are all responsible for our own actions in life. Even up to our last moment on Earth.Some people need to learn the concept of "Personal Responsibility". We are all equal in that regard. Do not confuse success with responsibility. You are confusing the two in a weak straw man argument. Fail.
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Originally Posted by nostatic
What he said. Every life is precious, but some impact more than others. For anyone who argues that he should have just "turned it around" and his death isn't more important to people, then congrats - you're in the "everyone gets a trophy for playing" club.
There are winners and losers in life, there are talented and untalented, and there are those who are fairly even keel and those who are deeply troubled.
Note that RW had 20 years of sobriety (without intervention) before falling off the wagon some years back. That would qualify as "just suck it up." Then he went to rehab and got sober again - again sucking it up. But his demons ran quite deep.
Anyone who has lived with or dealt with truly depressed and/or truly creative people get this. People focus on the material aspects of his life - "he had it all." That is an external perspective, and has little to do with his real internal life. You may be able to turn your internal narrative around, but realize that you've not everyone. Different people have different abilities and capabilities.
Empathy is perhaps the most important trait to be learned. It is what allows us to live just a bit of other's lives, enables true leadership, and it also can help to keep our own world in check. Sadly it is lacking in our world.
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