re: Ole Miss fan Shepard Smith, calls Robin Williams a coward

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If he didn't have kids I wouldn't care, do what you want, but he did have a kid.

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He had adult kids, for chrissakes. It's not like he was leaving behind an infant.

As for whether it's a coward's way out, some of you need to actually get out and meet a wider variety of people. Depression, bipolarity, terminal disease diagnoses...these actually affect your thinking. There's nothing "cowardly" about having a chemical imbalance that actually makes you suicidal and it's pure ignorance to say so. I've had friends with depression that have committed (and in a couple lucky cases, failed in the attempt at) suicide, and I've had friends who were just melodramatic sans actual verifiable mental issues who attempted (and in one tragic case, succeeded in the attempt at) suicide. They're not even remotely similar cases. I don't understand them in either case, but I don't need to in order to grasp that mental problems and suicidal impulses aren't nearly as simplistic as many people believe. All it takes is actually knowing people who suffer from them and showing a bit of empathy for their issues.