Louis CK, the comedian, offered his goodbye to Robin Williams after his apparent suicide on Monday.
Williams was found dead in his Northern California home on Monday. Reports say that he hung himself with a belt.
“Goodbye pal. Thanks for everything,” he wrote on Twitter.
He also tweeted a link to comedian Rob Delaney’s Tumblr page about dealing with depression and getting help for it.
“The sole reason I’ve written this is so that someone who is depressed or knows someone who is depressed might see it. While great strides have been made in mental health over the years, certain stigmas still exist. I strongly resisted medication at first. But after having been through depression and having had the wonderful good fortune to help a couple of people who’ve been through it, I will say that as hard as it is, IT CAN BE SURVIVED. And after the stabilization process, which can be and often is fucking terrifying, a HAPPY PRODUCTIVE LIFE is possible and statistically likely. Get help. Don’t think. Get help,” he wrote on his Tumblr, dated 2010.
A number of other comedians and actors commented on Williams’s death and offered their condolences.
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The Associated Press
Official: Robin Williams hanged himself with belt
AN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Authorities on Tuesday detailed how Robin Williams’ took his life, saying the actor and comedian hanged himself with a belt in a bedroom of his San Francisco Bay Area home.
Marin County Sheriff’s Lt. Keith Boyd said Williams was last seen alive by his wife Sunday night when she went to bed. She woke up the next morning and left, thinking he was still asleep elsewhere in the home.
Shortly after that, Williams’ personal assistant came to the Tiburon home and became concerned whenWilliams failed to respond to knocks at a door. The assistant found the 63-year-old actor clothed and dead in a bedroom.
Boyd said all evidence indicates Williams, star of “Good Will Hunting,” ‘‘Mrs. Doubtfire,“ ’'Good Morning, Vietnam” and dozens of other films, committed suicide by hanging himself. But he said a final ruling will be made once toxicology reports and interviews with witnesses are complete.
The condition of the body indicated Williams had been dead for at least a few hours, Boyd said. Williams also had superficial cuts on his wrist, and a pocketknife was found nearby.
Williams had been seeking treatment for depression, Boyd said. He would not say whether the actor left a suicide note.
“We still have people we want to speak with so there is some information we’re going to withhold,” Boyd said. “We’re not discussing the note or a note at this point as the investigation is ongoing.”
