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(51,563 posts) Sun Dec 23, 2012, 02:50 AM Dec 2012

Ryan Freel Commits Suicide: REPORTS [View all]

Source: HuffingtonPost.com

Former Major League player Ryan Freel has commited suicide, as first reported by First Coast News.

Freel, a utility player who spent parts of eight seasons in the Majors, took his own life at the age of 36. Best known for his years with the Cincinnati Reds, he played 594 games with five teams from 2001 through 2009.

Citing confirmation from Sgt. Mike Paul of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Jacksonville.com reported that Freel was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/22/ryan-freel-commits-suicide-dead_n_2353907.html

Another death by gun. One has to wonder if he didn't have a gun, maybe he would have made it through that dark night, and he would have seen the sun coming up in the morning, and he would have gotten help.

All of us have been there. That's why I don't keep a gun in the house.

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Rec based upon your comments Bozita Dec 2012 #1

All of us? AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #2

Well, all of us get depressed at some point, except for you apparently. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #5

There is a difference between AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #9

Do not trivialize the reasons that flit across your mind. Depression to the point of suicide libdem4life Dec 2012 #24

That's WHAT I SAID. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #34

Didnt get the correlation lilke that...sorry. libdem4life Dec 2012 #36

You Want to Quibble over Suicide? dballance Dec 2012 #8

It is, to the best of my knowledge, not a clinically accurate statement. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #10

90% of suicide attempts by gun are successful BainsBane Dec 2012 #13

Yes, the only people I know who committed suicide successfully, Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 #16

..and it breaks down over gender...don't have the actual statistics, but women generally libdem4life Dec 2012 #25

No shit. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #35

Yet you called a post BainsBane Dec 2012 #42

When I responded to him... AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #44

It wasn't a clinical statement. It was an empathetic generalization. grantcart Dec 2012 #37

Actually, I have contingency plans for that. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #40

I think he would have found another way IDoMath Dec 2012 #3

How do you know he would have found another way? SunSeeker Dec 2012 #4

'successfully' AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #11

Actually statistics do not bear that assumption out. grantcart Dec 2012 #38

I've never been there. MrSlayer Dec 2012 #6

I'm talking about depression, not suicide attempts. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #7

I read your 'all of us have been there' AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #12

I've been there. geomon666 Dec 2012 #14

With a gun in the house you are 7 times more likely to be a gunshot victim rightsideout Dec 2012 #15

Angry controllers RVN VET Dec 2012 #18

Brutal story. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #26

Your comment is very important Sanity Claws Dec 2012 #17

No. We have not all "been there." marble falls Dec 2012 #19

Same here libodem Dec 2012 #20

Years ago, my sister committed suicide. plethoro Dec 2012 #21

Anyone who has lived through a friend or family member with serious mental problems, agrees libdem4life Dec 2012 #29

Yes, near catatonic. That's how she was in the end. Would just lie plethoro Dec 2012 #33

not always guns nightbloomer Dec 2012 #22

Didn't say it was. But having a gun in the house makes suicide over 5 times more likely. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #31

My brother-in-law, who owned several guns, hanged himself. Throd Dec 2012 #23

Sorry to hear that. I am guessing that he did it in a way that the process could not be reversed grantcart Dec 2012 #41

But wouldn't he have tried something else like jumping off a bridge or crashing his car? alp227 Dec 2012 #27

Bridge jumpers or car crashers are not certain of death, at least instant death. libdem4life Dec 2012 #30

my dad shot himself in the head and lived for six days Skittles Dec 2012 #43

I am so sorry. Can not imagine. libdem4life Dec 2012 #45

Having a gun in the home far increases the likelihood of using it to kill yourself. Zoeisright Dec 2012 #32

Country singer Faron Young late one night years ago did this graham4anything Dec 2012 #28

Lot of gun deaths in professional sports these days. Aristus Dec 2012 #39