Depression and Suicide

A great deal has been made of the death of 63-year old actor and comedian Robin Williams. The entertainer took his life by means of hanging himself from a belt attached to a closet door in his bedroom. He thought that life wasn’t worth living anymore because he suffered from depression and was in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Robin Williams, of course, was not the only one who battled depression and committed suicide as a result. Many people both famous and unknown have felt so...