Robin Williams Makes Us Think

I'd been thinking about the time in which I met Robin Williams. He had bitten through a SCART cable as he tried setting up a playstation 2. Is his destruction in his creativity? Let's even gaze at the possibility that his death is remarkable. We live in a celebrity world where I question the motives of people I've never met. In hindsight, we could muster the cheeky little thought that suicide is unreasonable. Perhaps even ironic. But this brings up a question in which how society perceives death.

The new death aesthetic is part of a social regime in order to make people comfortable with death and therefore fearless. What better freedom than being able to choose when you die and for it to be accepted by your friends and family? Perhaps they would cheer you on as you went through a bottle of paracetamol or laugh at you as you kicked in the noose. But this isn't part of the society we yet live in. Death is talked about in hushed tones in dark rooms. It is a secret. Imagine yourself on your death bed in the far future. Somebody holds up an old photograph of a baby. It is you.