[jocon307]

“If a teenager dies all of a sudden, then there IS something really wrong with him.”

Clearly, but often it is completely occult (meaning unseen, not demonic). One reads, fairly frequently, of young people dying during/after sporting events and you don’t play youth sports without having had a physical.

Very sad for this fellow, his family and the others on the airplane.

RIP young man.

[cloudmountain]

Clearly, but often it is completely occult (meaning unseen, not demonic). One reads, fairly frequently, of young people dying during/after sporting events and you don’t play youth sports without having had a physical.
You ASSUME that all children in youth sports get physicals...NOT true. There are THOUSANDS of youth sports groups in this country that are serendipitous and, as such, children don't get physicals. They do get uniforms because the working parents PAY for them. Working parents LOVE youth sports--it's the quintessential babysitter.

I was in the sport business for decades and one DOESN'T read fairly frequently, only RARELY, about young people dying during/after sporting events. When that does unfortunately happen it makes the national news. It is VERY rare.

-----------------------------------------------------

Very sad for this fellow, his family and the others on the airplane.
RIP young man.
Amen to that.

[Former Fetus]

you don’t play youth sports without having had a physical

My son run cross country and long distance (1 and 2 mile) in track while in high school. His physicals were a joke: height, weight, blood pressure, pulse... There's no way they could have detected any unseen life-threatening conditions. We took him to a pediatric cardiologist and had an echocardiogram done before he started running.