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(45,274 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)RIP
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)on his health.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)coaching was his life and his identity.
When that all got taken away, I think he lost his will to live.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)that mental distress and losing your main purpose in life isn't going to help you fight an illness.
Renew Deal
(82,742 posts)Sad to hear he's gone.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)if it was there all along, who knows if stress accelerated the disease.
Mental health has a huge impact on illness.
Plus, as I noted above, if his identity was so closely linked with his coaching, losing his job may have caused him to lose his will to live. Maybe he just gave up.
Efilroft Sul
(3,704 posts)PCIntern
(26,420 posts)and it's gonna shake things up here in many ways.
PCIntern
(26,420 posts)MinervaX
(169 posts)would he have been in any danger of prosecution from the Sandusky fall out?
MineralMan
(147,030 posts)Response to mfcorey1 (Original post)
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Arkansas Granny
(31,726 posts)It's sad that his career ended as it did.
mfcorey1
(11,045 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)can't even read because it's scrolling so fast.
MinervaX
(169 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)lots of anger and disgust and disgust at the anger there. whew!
Son of Gob
(1,502 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)Really?
He had 85 years on this planet the majority of which doing something he loved.
I don't find anything "sad" about him being caught enabling a sexual predator...but that's just me.
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SHRED
(28,136 posts)...that the Penn State scandal came to the light of day?
Maybe you misunderstood me.
Renew Deal
(82,742 posts)And some are so emotionally vacant that they have no concept of loss.