Henry Rollins slams Robin Williams for committing suicide
Hardcore rocker Henry Rollins is being branded as a punk for criticizing Robin Williams in his weekly newspaper column.
The former Black Flag frontman and self-proclaimed Williams fan slammed the late comic actor for committing suicide and 'traumatizing' his three children in the process.
'I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves,' Rollins wrote in his Thursday piece for LA Weekly's West Coast Sound Blog.
''How in the hell could you possibly do that to your children....choosing to kill yourself, rather than to be there for that child, is every shade of awful, traumatic and confusing.'
Williams committed suicide Aug. 11 in his California home, leaving behind three adult children and millions of distraught. The 63-year-old actor, who won an Academy Award for his turn 'Good Will Hunting,' had suffered from depression and addiction for years - and had recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Henry Rollins says he doesn't take Robin Williams seriously anymore which is fine because we never took Henry Rollins seriously in general.
- Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) August 22, 2014
'I think as soon as you have children, you waive your right to take your own life,' Rollins wrote. 'No matter what mistakes you make in life, it should be your utmost goal not to traumatize your kids. '
But Rollins, whose biggest hit is an empowerment dirge titled 'Low Self Opinion,' didn't stop there, saving his harshest words for all tortured artists who chose to end their lives prematurely .
'I no longer take this person seriously,' Rollins wrote about artists who took their own lives. 'I may be able to appreciate what he or she did artistically but it's impossible to feel bad for them.'
And taking that logic further:
Always wanted to like and respect Henry Rollins but right now I'm considering killing myself just so I never existed to him.
- Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) August 21, 2014
'Almost 40,000 people a year kill themselves in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,' he added. In my opinion, that is 40,000 people who blew it.'
Those words incited plenty of reaction on social media, particularly from critics who felt Rollins was the one who blew it.
'Henry Rollins threatening to stop taking suicides seriously will be a serious disincentive for the four people who still take him seriously,' tweeted music writer Sam Adams.
Rollins' controversial diatribe comes on the heels of a major backlash over Kiss bassist Gene Simmons' controversial comments on depression.
'Drug addicts and alcoholics are always 'the world is a harsh place.' My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, I don't want to hear f--k all about 'the world is a harsh place,' Simmons told the music site Songsfact.com. ''And for a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, 'I'm depressed, I live in Seattle', f--k you, then kill yourself.'
Though the interview had initially been published two weeks before Williams' suicide, it went viral after the tragedy drew a spotlight on depression.
Simmons later apologized for his ill-timed remarks.
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