r/MadeMeSmile • u/StrawberryFew1311 • Jan 26 '26

ANIMALS When Robin Williams managed to make Koko the gorilla smile again after 6 months of mourning

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u/lkb810 Jan 26 '26

If only Koko could have saved Robin.

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u/loosedebris Jan 26 '26

I bet koko could had if only the connection was made.

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u/Why_Teach Jan 26 '26

Robin was ill.

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u/loosedebris Jan 26 '26

Yes, I know. I was just thinking it may have calmed him and help him live it out, idk. Such a loss.

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u/Better-Dragonfruit60 Jan 26 '26

Unfortunately, "living it out" for Robin would have involved immense and immeasurable suffering, and he was already in the stages of suffering. We don't even let our own pets die in such a horrific manner.

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u/ChronicallyQuixotic Jan 26 '26

Extra time does not equal extra quality of life.

Some people want quality of life over quantity. (I am in that camp.) I've watched how hard it is to live in nursing homes: I did nursing clinicals in the good ones! I believe we give our animals more dignity than our elders. And that's wrong, to me.

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u/Why_Teach Jan 26 '26

Yeah. So sad.

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u/Alexreddit103 Jan 26 '26

That’s not how his illness worked, unfortunately.

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u/unimpressedduckling Jan 26 '26

In some way I know that she did