{"id":5942,"date":"2014-08-14T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/14\/if-someone-were-to-die-at-the-age-of-63-after-a\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T04:08:09","slug":"if-someone-were-to-die-at-the-age-of-63-after-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/14\/if-someone-were-to-die-at-the-age-of-63-after-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If someone were to die at the age of 63 after a lifelong battle with MS or Sickle Cell, we\u2019d all say they were a \u201cfighter\u201d or an \u201cinspiration.\u201d But when someone dies after a lifelong battle with severe mental illness and drug addiction, we say it was a tragedy and tell everyone \u201cdon\u2019t be like him, please seek help.\u201d That\u2019s bullshit. Robin Williams sought help his entire life. He saw a psychiatrist. He quit drinking. He went to rehab. He did this for decades. That\u2019s HOW he made it to 63. For some people, 63 is a fucking miracle. I know several people who didn\u2019t make it past 23 and I\u2019d do anything to have 40 more years with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2014\/08\/13\/its-ok-not-to-feel-anything-when-a-celebrity-dies-ctd\/\">anonymous reader on The Dish<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the more helpful and insightful things I\u2019ve seen about depression\/suicide in the last couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-greatdepression.tumblr.com\/\">the-greatdepression<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone were to die at the age of 63 after a lifelong battle with MS or Sickle Cell, we\u2019d all say they were a \u201cfighter\u201d or an \u201cinspiration.\u201d But when someone dies after a lifelong battle with severe mental illness and drug addiction, we say it was a tragedy and tell everyone \u201cdon\u2019t be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/14\/if-someone-were-to-die-at-the-age-of-63-after-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}