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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 56 points 1 week ago

Paul Walker was 33 and dating a 16 year old.

Nah.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plus the fast and the furious movies only got good after they drove him off into the sunset

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Damn... Now that's a hot take.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

He was also doing statutory rape things with a minor.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.works 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.world 32 points 1 week 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.

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[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago

Science memes are supposed to be funny, not make people cry.

R.I.P Robbie

[–] Cano@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.ee 31 points 1 week ago

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

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

~~Being~~ Bring back 21 of them, just to piss off the other person replying to you

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I dunno. They look like that weird alien parasite from TNG that tried to take over star fleet while eating bugs.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week 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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm not sure I want Williams to see the Trump era of America. I think it might have killed him again.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

He'd go back on cocaine for Trump.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like Hunter S. Thompson killing himself after bush got reelected

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't part of the deal. He already killed himself again.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I tried and trying is half the battle!

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The other half is an endless loop of Williams suicides

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh Captain, my Captain!

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damn bro. Start with mosquitoes. Always start with mosquitoes.

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[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

Iirc he killed himself because he had an aggressive form of dementia and didn't want to live like that.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, I started thinking in that direction as well, but then I thought about how the radiodonts did their millions of years of existence and now can rest.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And that choice is Robin Williams. The man was a gem 🥲

A diamond in the rough.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week 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.ee 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago

Steve Irwin would want anomalocaris

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Don't bring Swayze back, my church is just getting started.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.pub 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 10 points 1 week ago

And yet he managed to stay more relevant to the discussion than you or me!

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[–] roscoe@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

No one else wants to bring back anomalocaris so we can get some payback?

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

When I say I don't care about celebrities that includes the "good" ones. Weird centipede thing 100%.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well, my commendations

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[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

Steve Irwin

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I want Swayze to come back and dance fight his way into America's hearts again.

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