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Junior Seau dead, probable suicide
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https://twitter.com/#!/LATimesfarmer...55054793560065 Junior Seau Dead Cops Investigating Shooting Cops are currently at Seau's home just outside San Diego. Seau was 43-years-old ... and leaves behind 3 kids and an ex-wife. Seau was a beast in the NFL -- skyrocketing to fame thanks to his explosive play with the San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots. The USC standout was selected in the first round of the NFL draft in 1990 and played in the league for 20 years. Seau was involved in a car accident back in 2010 when he drove his SUV off a cliff in Carlsbad, CA hours after he was arrested for allegedly attacking his girlfriend. Seau later said he was not trying to kill himself ... insisting he had fallen asleep at the wheel. http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/02/junior-seau-dead/ Last edited by Quesadilla Joe; 05-02-2012 at 12:35 PM.. |
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Suicide does not make sense. It goes against our basic instinct of survival. Hense, if you feel the need to off yourself, there is something seriously wrong upstairs. That doesn't excuse it, by the way. But it sure provides explanations.
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05-03-2012, 08:38 AM | #426 | |
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I arrested a kid and added the charge of resisting and assault when he folded my knee backwards during the handcuffing. Later he said he wasn't resisting, he just didn't want to be arrested. This seemed like another of those moments. "He's not selfish, sure he cheated and spent quality time with another woman that could have been spent on his wife or family, but he's anything but selfish." It boggles my mind. |
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[QUOTE=alnorth;8590999]If suicide was just random out of the blue crazy, we should be seeing wealthy and happily married people suddenly snapping at the same rate as everyone else, but they don't. Somehow, when you are handed a divorce or you are staring down the barrel of bankruptcy (like Seau), you tend to kill yourself a lot more often. Though insane people killing themselves does happen, that is not random insanity, that is ego-driven "if I can't have her/money, then I don't want to live", without much thought for family.[QUOTE] Please remember there is conditional depression - I lost my job, my girlfriend left me, Christmas sucks, that sort of thing - and clinical depression, which has nothing to do with how well someone's life is going, and hits wealthy and happily married people at just the same rate as everyone else. To wit: Rod Steiger, who suffered so badly from it that he didn't get out of bed for years, until medical technology caught up with him. Quote:
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05-03-2012, 08:50 AM | #428 | |
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If you don't think major depression is a mental illness, you are ignorant. Many people don't know how to get help with a mental illness because of the stigma that comes with it from assholes like you. Or from the fact we continue to cut mental health services across this country. Or how about from the fact that major depression, if left untreated, affects your judgement. If you honestly think someone makes a impulsive decision to end it one day, you are wrong. Most of the these people deal with inner demons for quite a while. Go back to living in the 60's where people with mental illnesses were told to just deal with it if you want to post such a ****ing dumb statement. I honestly can't believe people still think this way. You have obviously never had a person close to you end it. Sadly, that is probably what it will take for you to get it. I totally don't mind this stance, especially when it is someone you don't know. It is just amazing that people claim that suicide is an idiotic action, no matter what the other circumstances were surrounding that situation or person.
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05-03-2012, 08:56 AM | #429 |
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where do we rate the suicide for attention seekers? Example, the other day call to 911 for help, "just took a bunch of pills and tried to kill myself". I'm first on scene, he/she wants water, has a bunch of paste in his/her mouth and lips. I say no, and ask what he/she took, answer was Ramelteon. Medic gets there, offers to let he/she have some water if he/she promises not to swallow it, only to rinse out his/her mouth. He/she swallows the water and the pills in front of us.
That was for attention, painfully obvious, but what if he/she died that night from the pills? Modern medicine is good, but sometimes it doesn't save everyone. Can I call those people idiots and pass judgement? Or should I say, "ahh, poor boy/girl, probably had a hard life, I'd probably be seeking attention anyway I could if I had been treated or seen what he/she saw."? |
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Soooo basically they get to live like the rest of us.
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05-03-2012, 09:31 AM | #433 |
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Most of us don't make that kind of money in such large quantities at such a young age. I don't necessarily feel sorry for them, but I'd say there's not much normal about their lives, at least while they are in the league.
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I don't feel sorry for them either but in the real-world young CEOs who come into that kind of money can do things to secure their place within a company for years to come. In pro sports, that isn't possible because age conquers all. I honestly think many of these guys think they will have much longer careers than they realize.
I hope all professional leagues really starts providing more education to these players about managing their money. Some of these dudes are straight idiots with their money but I guess that is what happens when you give a twenty-something a large sum of money.
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Hell, some of those guys drafted last week were showing off their 5-year old kids, which makes them 15 or 16 when they became a father. They get a free ride through college, often without being forced to actually have a real major (or even study for that matter) and on and on and on it goes. The NFL doesn't necessarily deserve to bear the brunt of the blame, IMO. Society as a whole needs to take a step back and look at this if that's the case. |
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