We marked the other submission as a duplicate and changed the title of this one from “Heartbreaking essay by Robin Williams' wife about what happened to him”. Since the original title is neither misleading nor linkbait, the guidelines ask that we keep it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This title is more descriptive and the other, older, discussion has no comments.

Merge may still be useful to remove other link.

The title here is editorialized, I'd prefer to keep her original title.

Ah yes. Removing "Heartbreaking" is something I would agree with. However I would not have read an article with the other title - it makes it seem like more fluff about terrorists.

Yes, exactly. I would not have come across this had the editorialized title not gained more traction.

Quite so. The title changed after I'd clicked the link. Without the mention of it being a piece by Robin Williams wife I'd have skipped over assuming it another piece about radicalisation.

Editorialized or not, actually mentioning that it's about Robin Williams is helpful. I skipped the other link, and I'm glad I didn't miss the article.

I saw the other title and skipped it. I think this one is fine as is.

ETA: I suppose "The terrorist in Robin Williams' brain" would be a fair compromise.

Mentioning that it is written by his widow was a large factor in me clicking the link.

Its a little unfortunate that the bag of metaphors in popular American discourse have come to contain little beyond "war against *" and "terrorists".

I'm not disagreeing ... The original title didn't result in a discussion here. I purposely said "normalized" for this reason (maybe the original title with Robin Williams in parenthesis after Husband).