• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
    119·
    2 months ago

    Paul Walker died cause him and his friend were speeding and street racing. Similar to Ryan Dunn who died drunk driving. I think it’s been long enough to call them out and remind people they didn’t die as heroes, they died being idiots and luckily didn’t kill a bunch of innocent people with them

  • EtherWhack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    833·
    2 months ago

    The thing with Robin is that, regardless of his mental health, he would’ve been the type of person to curse the choice of bringing someone back to be wasted on him.

    While it is commonly believed he took his life due to a constant battle with depression, we do not know exactly what his resolve was, and bringing him back could be seen as hell in his eyes.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      45·
      2 months ago

      It wasn’t depression. He was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

      He allegedly took his life so he wouldn’t slowly lose himself, and become a burden on his family.

      • EtherWhack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        Parkinson’s, actually. They corrected it to LBD during his autopsy.

        Apparently him and his wife weren’t satisfied with the Parkinson’s diagnosis as he had some abnormal psychological issues, so they decided to have some neurology tests scheduled. He unfortunately took his life before the appointment, so he never knew the real diagnosis.

  • Cano@lemm.eeEnglish
    492·
    2 months ago

    No offence to Robin Williams, but I think having a living specimen of an ancient species who lived millions of years ago might help scientists advance evolutionary biology by a lot

    Or maybe not, but look at that little guy, he’s so cute :D

    • LordGimp@lemm.eeEnglish
      331·
      2 months ago

      Fuck that dumb ocean centipede. Robin Williams is worth 20 ocean centipedes easy

    • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      That specimen might also die really quickly considering it’s a whole different world, not even the atmosphere is similar, and without more of it’s species to multiply I would say it would be really cool to see but not super helpful to study

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
    471·
    2 months ago

    Robin Williams, but he comes back fully cured of everything and he gets to live a full life happy.

    • Tyfud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      2 months ago

      Whoever downvoted you, has never seen actual Robin Williams Standup or knows much about his political views.

      Robin hated Bush Sr. and Jr., especially Jr., with a passion.

      trump would send him off the deep end, as you suggested.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      If resurrection heals the maladies he was suffering from, Robin would absolutely hate Trump and use that energy to put out at least 2 more non-cocaine fueled comedy specials, and passibly one that was cocaine or extacy fueled.

      He wouldn’t commit suicide again if all his personal memory/physical problems weren’t an issue. If he hadn’t had LBD, he would have become the second Grandpa of Comedy, succeeding Carlin.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        He didn’t kill himself. He said many times that he would eventually commit suicide to prevent himself from developing terminal illnesses, but he always clarified that he wouldn’t even consider it if he still had work to do, aka his personal projects. He had two personal projects in the works when he was killed. He just knew too much and was way too vocal about it.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    392·
    2 months ago

    Robin Williams had a degenerative nerve disease, bringing him back as he was would be cruel.

    Bringing him back healed, or young and healed? I’d let you hunt some species to extinction for that.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    242·
    2 months ago

    I normally don’t care when celebrities pass away. But I genuinely cried when Robin Williams died. And I’m still sad about it.

    • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      I was on the set of Sea of Trees with Gus Van Sant when the news broke. Needless to say, we wrapped suddenly the moment the news broke.

  • ursakhiin@beehaw.orgEnglish
    202·
    2 months ago

    As much as I would love for Robin Williams to be back and brightening the world again it would be incredibly selfish of us to forget that he was incredibly unhappy in life and killed himself in a very unpleasant way because of it.

    So definitely the centipede.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    If Mr. Williams was unhappy I would not bring him back to this world we have now.

    I would want to make heaven on earth before I woke anyone … except my pets.

  • kozy138@lemm.eeEnglish
    181·
    2 months ago

    I was hoping one of them would be Steve Irwin… 🙁

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Gonna be honest, I only vaguely recognise the name Patrick Swayze without knowing exactly what he’s famous for. An actor, I think? And I have zero idea who Paul Walker is. Anomalocarus I gather from context is an extinct animal of some sort, which is cool, but I lack the knowledge to know precisely why this specific species is highly valuable.

    So Robin Williams gets my vote almost by default, even if I didn’t have more reason to choose him beyond that.

    • HaleHirsute@infosec.pubEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      I admire your dedication to contribute something to the conversation while only knowing less than half the knowledge necessary one would guess necessary to have an opinion worthy of sharing.

    • abbadon420@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Great, now I see priests and quire boys doing pottery class tigether in church under the guidance of Unchained Melody on the organ.

      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I shall read now from the Book of Dalton: Chapter Three, Verse Four…

        “Be nice. Until it’s time… to not be nice.”

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I have a shrine to Paul Walker in my basement. (Not a joke.)

    Edit: can’t find a better pic in a timely manner and I’m in bed.