Via Mark Crispin Miller there’s this report…but really, why is the guy drawing our attention to this? Surely it’s just normal!?
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I have no idea, but death does tend to be unexpected and seldom welcomed, even among mayors who - I would imagine - tend not to be people who realise they have a long illness. It’s the mayors, and others, who suicide themselves who I’d consider salient.
Random example from some years ago
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It’s a bit like all those super fit tennis players that dropped out of the Miami Open tournement. Fifteen of them. Nothing to see here. It isn’t happening, even while it’s happening, it isn’t happening!
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Hadn’t heard of that. I realise tennis players travel from far and wide but Florida has been relatively sane throughout the last two years and I wondered if there might be something else beneath this story? Isn’t it fairly normal for people to choose their twenty tournaments a year (or whatever, just an arbitrary guess) some way in advance but then not always be able to get to some of them?
Not to downplay the story in any way, the carnage amongst sportsmen seems pretty unequivocal.
Here’s something else for you to wonder about. The number of professional sportsmen and women collapsing on the field is now past 750 in the past 12 months. The average age of those that have died is 23!