Robin Williams Death

Robin Williams died of suicide on August 11, 2014 at age 63 in California.





Death
 Robin Williams committed suicide on August 11, 2014 in his home in unincorporated Paradise Cay, California at the age of 63.   In the initial report released on August 12, the Marin County Sheriff's Office deputy coroner stated Williams had hanged himself with a belt and died from asphyxiation.  It was revealed following his death that Williams had been suffering from severe depression, and had been sleeping in a different room from his wife due to restlessness and anxiety caused by his Parkinson’s.  The final autopsy report, released in November 2014, affirmed that Williams had committed suicide as initially described; neither alcohol nor illegal drugs were involved, while any prescription drugs present in Williams' body were at "therapeutic" levels. The report also noted that Williams had been suffering "a recent increase in paranoia.”  An examination of his brain tissue revealed the presence of "diffuse Lewy body dementia .”  Williams' doctors reportedly believe that Lewy body dementia "was the critical factor" that led to his suicide. His body was cremated and his ashes were spread in San Francisco Bay on August 21.

