14 DAY TRIAL // It has surfaced today that the body of the late actor Robin Williams, whose death took everyone by surprise including family and friends, has not been buried but cremated and the resulting ashes have been scattered at sea.
The news comes from TMZ which reports that the ashes of the comedic actor were scattered in San Francisco Bay in a small procession that involved his family and the closest of friends. The information was listed on his death certificate which doesn't yet reveal his cause of death, listed just as “pending investigation.”
A police investigation is indeed undergoing at the moment, trying to determine the circumstances under which the actor lost his life. Foul play has been excluded early on by investigators who have concluded that the actor took his own life by hanging himself with his own belt on his bedroom door located in his home in Tiburon, California.
The police investigation at the time revealed that the actor had also tried to cut his left wrist with a pocket knife before he hung himself, as deep and superficial cuts were found on his body, and a pocketknife was found close to his body with a red substance on it resembling blood.
The initial report listed as the cause of death asphyxia, a direct result of the hanging. Friends and family said that the actor was suffering from a deep depression at the time of his death and his wife also revealed in a press release that Williams had also just been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was told that the was showing the early signs of the condition.
Several voices in the showbiz community have voiced their concern that Williams fell into a deep depression because of the cocktail of medication that he was taking to combat his Parkinson's diagnosis, and pointed a blaming finger at the big pharmaceutical companies that put on the market drugs which produced suicidal tendencies as a side effect.
The exact medication that the actor was taking at the time of death has yet to be revealed, and the coroner is also waiting for the toxicology reports to find out with Robin had any chemicals in his system at the time of his death.
Williams leaves behind not only a grieving family and millions of heartbroken fans, but also a legacy of movies, some yet to be released, as well as memorable characters that have enriched cinematography on a world level.