# R.I.P. Robin Williams

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [August 11, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-robin-williams/695333 "2014-08-11T23:04:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-robin-williams/695333/341 "2014-11-14T04:51:07Z")

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Wikipedia says causes aren’t really known. The lewy bodies are plaques that build up in the brain, similar to Parkinson’s disease. Given that, it doesn’t seem as likely.

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**Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-robin-williams/695333/342 "2014-11-14T06:08:01Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> I saw that photo, which may be his final one. I was at first drawn to similar conclusions, but now I wonder if it is just a bad picture of him. Had he been looking more directly been caught right, he might have looked fine.

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> He looks pretty down to me, even had I not known the tragedy that lay ahead.

According to the wiki article on [Dementia with Lewy bodies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies#Signs_and_symptoms), one of the symptoms is “blank expression (reduced range of facial expression)”, which could account for his appearence in that picture.

For such a physical comedian, with such an active face as part of his humour, that would be a very sad possibility.

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