I remember the first time Robin Williams was on TV, on Happy Days, as Mork. He's had a stellar career all these years and he was one of a kind. Like everyone else I am stunned by his depression and suicide. I remember a picture taken of him about a month ago. He really didn't look good, looked like a street person. Thin, unshaven, haggard.

Despite all his friends and success, and therefore access to people, whether social or professional, who should have been able to listen deeply to him, apparently that did not provide him with insight to lead him out of his depressed/bipolar (or what have you - I do not know) and addicted state. His life and death will be remembered and discussed long after I am dead and forgotten, I am sure. His significance to people, I mean, will survive the next several decades at least, and probably much longer. Perhaps some social consciousness raising will come of this. I hope so.