Ex-Olympics gymnastics coach John Geddert dies by suicide hours after being charged: reports

Daily News ^ | 02/25/2021 | Nelson Oliveira

[OldGoatCPO]

“Conventionally most people would take continuing to live while losing money or having records removed from the record books.”

Not so fast, what is conventional in our minds is apparently not conventionally with a lot of people. Suicides are up substantially, if you believe the reports. Committing Seppuku was not a Shinto thing. It was a Bushi thing. Historically many men have chosen to “fall on their swords.” Warriors have bravely fought knowing they would be killed often in a futile gestures. Or failing to be killed took their own lives to prevent falling in enemy hands and to die on a field of honor. When someone's entire life, ones entire identity and ones reputation are about to be destroyed, historically suicide was an option. A Bushi would take his life in a horrific manner to retain his honor thereby ensuring his family's honor would be retained. In doing so his families lands and fortune remained intact. Only a high ranking Bushi would commit seppuku. Was Aaron Hernandez's suicide any different? Someone had to have told Hernandez at some point, if he dies during appeal in MA he will be considered effectively innocent of the charges.

Although I will fight for every breath in this life, suicide, wrongly I may add, has been come a legit option for very many people today.

[OldGoatCPO]

You are correct, however, none of that matters because the MA Supreme Court reinstated Hernandez's conviction in 2019. However, I understand that in 2019 or 2020 his estate did receive a settlement from the Patriots on a portion of the salary due him before his arrest. Apparently he would have been entitled to that money even after being held in breach of contract. His fiance sold his home for around a million dollars and there is still a question about his NFL pension which he did pay into. Also there are civil lawsuits.

As time has gone by Hernandez is starting to look like a sympathetic character. Researchers claimed his brain was one of the worse cases of TBI they had ever seen, his brain had actually shrunk in size. He was pretty much a nut case from TBI. He would have been more demented then BIden in a few years had he lived.

His suicide lead to the autopsy and revealed the severely damaged brain. In the end he came across as evil in the NETFLIX movie, but he has also become a somewhat sympathetic figure who destroyed his brain to play a game.

[ridesthemiles]

I am 81.

I never was told that Prison was meant to be a fun place.