Selbstmord per absichtlicher Überdosis aus....[/QUOTE]
So ein Bullshit! Du kennst ihn kein bißchen, oder? Kenn ihn natürlich auch nicht persönlich, aber hab so viele Berichte zu ihm gesehen, Biographie und so viel von anderen Wrestlern und Co vor seinem Tod über ihn gehört. Der hat seine Familie sowas von geliebt, das hätte er nicht gemacht.
Denke leider auch, dass er zu viele Painkiller (vor allem) und Steroide genommen hat. Auch wenn es fürchterlich ist darüber nach seinem Tod zu reden.
Ein interessanter Artikel aus dem Torch Newsletter von Wade Keller:
THE WWE LIFESTYLE
WWE doesn't have doctors on staff with the power to order a wrestler off the road. There is no system in place to do expensive, elaborate tests to evaluate the stress level of wrestlers, to determine whether years of steroid abuse have taken a toll on vital organs, to detect whether celebrated sobriety has turned into a burden of a charade, or whether a month or two at home might save a family, a career, or a life.
There is a top wrestler in WWE today who is considered to be on the unofficial death watch, whose death, due to his credentials, would make the considerable news coverage of Eddie Guerrero's death this week look minor by comparison. It's no secret to most within WWE; if it's not known by Vince McMahon, someone needs to tell him the system needs to be changed. It's one thing to show how much you care about a colleague by crying on the air after he dies. It's another to care enough about someone to do what it takes while he's alive to keep him from dying - even at the expense of box office receipts, storyline interruptions, and being deemed pushy, nosy, or a nark.
"I can remember hearing a conversation from some unnamed WWE head guys talking about how this certain person needs to go to rehab but they couldn't send him because he was too important to the show," wrote former WWE wrestler Andrew "Test" Martin in a website ([url]www.AndrewTestMartin.com[/url]) commentary this week. "That's the reality people. That is how we are treated. Look at me. I break my neck in the ring and had to have two discs taken out of my neck and a steel plate put in and was told at the time by Johnny Ace when I asked if my job would be in jeopardy, 'We don't fire people with injuries like that.' Hmm, that's funny, because two months after surgery I got fired because I wasn't working.
Martin blamed the WWE lifestyle for fostering drug addiction and criticized Vince McMahon's lack of focus on the toll it takes. "I'm actually wondering who's next? Who's next to die?" he said. "I can think of at least 15 to 20 people who have died from various things - mostly prescription pain killers." He said he had never heard of Vicodin or Percocet or Soma before he worked for WWE. He said the reason WWE wrestlers become addicted to the pills and often die - either while still with WWE or after - is because of the schedule.
"How come so many wrestlers die from these medications and football players and hockey players don't? The answer is simple - wrestlers, especially WWE wrestlers, work five days a week all year long taking bump after bump in the ring. A doctor explained it to me like this: Every time you take a fall in the ring it's like getting rear-ended by a car going 20 mph, so how many bumps in the ring a night do you take? Multiply that by how many times a week you work all year long. That's a hell of a lot of whiplash and pain."
DEATH RAISES QUESTIONS
Guerrero's death brings up many questions. How much of a role did steroid use over the years play in Guerrero's death? How much of a toll did the demanding WWE schedule take on his 38 year old, high-mileage body? Did he put undue stress and pressure on himself to succeed? Was he worried about diminished earnings potential as his body began to slow down, having not saved money earlier in his career? Did he feel an added burden that he was likely going to be given the World Title again due to Batista's recent injury sidelining him?
Also, was he truly completely sober for four years as claimed by Chavo, and if not, did any recent drug usage contribute to his heart's vulnerability? Was Guerrero's decision to push his body to its limits, and ultimately past them, truly just a "personal choice" with no responsibility falling on the shoulders of the person rewarding the dangerous lifestyle?
Guerrero's "personal demons" were chronicled by WWE in a UPN special last year which later came out on DVD. Titled "Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story," Guerrero talked about how drug and alcohol abuse almost cost him his family, his career, and his life. His family and friends touted this week that Guerrero had just celebrated four years of sobriety.
In truth, multiple sources say sobriety for Eddie may have been defined differently than it would be for most. At the very least, sources who knew Guerrero tell the TORCH that he still took steroids and pain pills. Everybody with knowledge of Guerrero's usage say he had it "more under control" than during the lowest points in his life. He was able to hide any signs of usage from Vince McMahon. A number of people who have been on the road with him say he never showed any signs of any drug abuse on the job at the arenas.
But the aches and pains from abusing his body, the desire to try to be the same athlete in his late-30s that he was in his mid-20s, and the need to "look the part" for Vince McMahon led to his continued usage of steroids and pain pills in recent years, according to multiple sources close to Guerrero.
There is no medical evidence released to the public at this point that says anything he may have taken recently directly caused, contributed to, or accellerated his death. The fact that someone who had nearly died multiple times from drug abuse may have gone back to it is a sign that even the best intentioned, most dedicated recovering drug addicts with everything to live for (such as three daughters and a childhood sweetheart of a wife) often find total sobriety and being a full time WWE performer incompatible.
Many others, some dead and many alive, have struggled every day with the temptation, or the belief that they need, to take drugs to make it to the next town or to just get a good night's sleep.
Guerrero's enlarged and stressed heart ]may have failed him due to years of steroid abuse. Many will deny that likely reality. Others will accept it as a risk of the job. The attitude within the wrestling industry is that it's a risky occcupation and not for those unwilling to make sacrifices.
"The reason we shake hands with everyone before we leave a show is because we never know if it's the last time we'll see one another," says one veteran WWE wrestler. "It's been that way for decades, going back to when heavy booze was the drug of choice after matches."
