TAKEPLACE: DAVE DUERSON'S EERIE SUICIDE NOTE RIPS FEAR THROUGH THE NFL

Sunday, February 20, 2011

DAVE DUERSON'S EERIE SUICIDE NOTE RIPS FEAR THROUGH THE NFL

When the former football player Andre Waters shot himself in the head in late 2006, the few recoverable pieces of brain tissue, which later showed the same degenerative disease previously associated only with boxers, made the health risks of football a national conversation.

Football’s ramifications so concerned the former Chicago Bear Dave Duerson that, after deciding to kill himself last Thursday, he shot himself in the chest so that his brain could remain intact for similar examination. NYTIMES

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