Robin William’s last ever on-screen line still breaks hearts

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“The doctors said to me after the autopsy: ‘Are you surprised that your husband had Lewy bodies throughout his entire brain and brain stem?’ I didn’t even know what Lewy bodies were, but I said: ‘No, I’m not surprised.’ The fact that something had infiltrated every part of my husband’s brain? That made perfect sense,” she told The Guardian in 2021.

The fact that Robin Williams decided to end his own life was a tragedy. In the 2018 HBO documentary Come Inside My Mind about the actor and comedian, a clip from an old interview with him was played, in which Robin was asked if he had any fears.

Robin Williams suffered from Lewy body dementia

He replied, “I guess I fear my consciousness becoming, not just dull, but a rock. I couldn’t spark.”

That William’s had Lewy body dementia wasn’t discovered until the autopsy was done. Speaking with Today in 2020, Susan Schneider Williams provided further insight into what happened and how multiple factors were at play.

“Robin and I knew there was so much more going on. Robin was right when he said to me, ‘I just want to reboot my brain,’” she said. “In that moment I promised him that we would get to the bottom of this and I just didn’t know that would be after he passed.”

Lewy body dementia “can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood,” according to the National Institute on Aging. Moreover, it’s the second-most common form of degenerative dementia after Alzheimer’s.Continue reading…

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