I am horrified to report that Robin Williams – yes, that Robin Williams whom we all knew and loved – has passed away.
The Marin County Coronor’s office says it suspects “suicide due to asphyxia.”
The bizarre thing is that Daniel Stewart died the same way.
The story here:
insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/11/r … ead-at-63/
And poor Daniel here:
How do you know dr daniels died due to asphyxia?
Btw i was a big fan of robbin, RIP.
One of his (Daniel’s, that is) family members said at some point.
In any case, if the toxicology report shows that Robin Williams was on Propecia, there may be hell to pay at Merck.
FFS, this is not appropriate on so many levels.
Firstly, it’s absurd to speculate that Propecia was the cause of Robin Williams’ depression and death. He had long standing demons by all accounts, and issues with addiction.
Secondly it’s a bit tactless to say the least to link it with Dr Stewart and comment on the latter’s death, especially when we have members of his family now on the forum.
Stop these crazy celebrity death speculations immediately.
I just wanted to write exactly what Luckfax wrote. This thread should be erased.
No.
IF Robin Williams’ toxicology report shows he was on Propecia, people need to know that and take it into account.
You can’t get caught up in petty etiquette when people’s lives are at stake.
This is relevant. I am devastated too. I grew up with him… But he clearly had a hair transplant and most that do use propecia afterward. Yes he had other issues with addiction and such… But it seemed like he was treating those and had them in check. I fear and feel there could be something to this.
His hair was thinning before: i61.photobucket.com/albums/h63/s … before.jpg
and his body was hairy: i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/01/ … 34x882.jpg
but in recent pictures the hair is thicker: picomi.com/wp-content/upload … ams-12.jpg
and body is hairless: cdn.filmschoolrejects.com/images … 40x329.jpg
Ok, but bear in mind that it has been said several times that he had a problem with addictions.
And the reason I said this thread should be erased is because if I was a member of Daniel’s family I don’t think I would agree in having his way of dying published in a webpage.
I agree. There is no real correlation to be found between how a person ends their life and the specifics of their mental distress. To link Robin Williams cause of death to Dr Daniel’s is crass, irrelevant & deeply insensitive. Like others I feel that this thread is inappropriate, especially as Dr Daniel’s family may be reading. By all means speculate about Robin Williams’ death, but there are many well-documented factors which could well have played a part.
OK. Let’s make a deal. If Robin’s toxicology report shows that he was not in fact taking finasteride. we’ll ask the moderator to remove this thread.
Until then, let’s just sit and wait.
Even if Propecia was a factor in Williams death it would be impossible to prove because he had other underlying issues which could of caused his death regardless of Propecia.
The only way you could point to Propecia killing somebody is if they never had any other health problems before they used the drug.
Agreed. All I’m saying is that health care pros need to at least be AWARE that, if a patient (or suicide victim) is on Propecia, there’s a chance they have PFS, which in turn can spur suicide.
Now, few people on earth would even know to look down that path.
Our biggest problem is that people do not know finasteride is dangerous.
Even public speculation in the media that the death of Williams could be caused by finasteride, will result in the following:
And even if they know pfs they think its just a sexual issue. 4 people died due to sexual sides? I dont think so. Pfs left you with a physical and mental wreck.
It does seem a little crazy the way this topic was brought up, but he did have a hair transplant. Many hair transplant surgeons will not even conduct the procedure unless the patient agrees to take Propecia because the transplanted hairs will eventually die out otherwise.
There is a good chance he was taking Propecia, but it is very hard to say his death was directly influenced by Propecia. Even if it is true very few would believe this, even with a lot more direct evidence. I don’t know if his toxicology report will ever be publicly available but I wouldn’t be surprised if he had been taking Propecia for the past few years.
According to CNN:
“It will take several weeks for toxicology test results to show whether Williams was under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he died.”
cnn.com/2014/08/12/showbiz/r … index.html
So we will know what was in his body.
However, if he had STOPPED taking finasteride – and had classic POST-finasteride syndrome – would the drug still show up?
And even if he was still on it, would it show up as a toxic substance?
And if neither, would his wife know he was on the drug? And if she did, would she think to tell the authorities?
So perhaps we’ll never know.
But eventually, some notable figure will probably take his own life and it will be connected to PFS.
I’m reminded of vultures circling a freshly dead carcass. Did propecia take our humanity too?
Once the studies are completed then we won’t need to circle every celebrity death.
