Show #282

RIP Robin Williams.  Such a loss.  Not only to his family and friends, but the rest of us.   This has opened a new dialogue about depression that has been contentious in some ways.  Your thoughts?

Michael Brown was gunned down in Ferguson and the militarization of the police  …

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2 Responses to Show #282

  1. Hi y’all. Great show as always. Fantastic discussion on the death of Robin Williams, depression and suicide. It hit me really hard too. My initial reaction was anger and then, just deep sadness.

    I lost my brilliant, talented, hilarious first cousin to suicide in 2003. She was 34 years old. She drove all night, 5 hours from her home in Raleigh, NC to our hometown in the mountains. She sat in her car in the early morning hours, in the parking lot of a motel on the outskirts of town, and she shot herself. I’ll never know why.

    We were never that close as kids – for reasons that seem stupid and don’t really matter now – but she was an important part of my childhood. We were born just a few months apart, so we went to school together. From what I heard from other cousins, she had a good job, had just closed on a house two weeks earlier and by all accounts, was doing very well with her life. The thought that she drove all night with that gun in her lap planning what she was going to do….I’ll never know what sorrow led her to that point.

    For a long time, I was very angry. How could she? Why? Couldn’t she get help? Was there something I could have done? But it was her mother’s (my aunt’s) reaction that horrified and infuriated me the most. My aunt refused to honor her daughter’s memory with any kind of memorial. No obituary. No service. Nothing. She said it was all too humiliating. She said what my cousin did was shameful, had brought embarrassment to the family and she should just be forgotten. Unforgivable.

    So, I want you to know that Alice Enloe Morgan was in this world and walked among us. She was an honor student, an editor of our high school yearbook and newspaper. She was a member of the Latin Club, Math Club, Science Club, Youth Advisory & Library Advisory Council. She graduated with honors from Tuscola Sr. High School in 1988 and majored in Chemistry at North Carolina State University. She was employed at United Parcel Service in Raleigh, NC.

    And she had wickedly encyclopedic knowledge of all things Monty Python. RIP, Little Alice. I’m still a naive nerd and I miss you very much.

  2. Avatar Jest Jake
    Jest Jake says:

    We all die. The how, why, when, etc. don’t matter. Dust is what we become. Maybe we are already.