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Update: Chris Henry Passed Away Today. Such a sad story all around.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4750615

He was having a decent season this year and kept the off the field issues down until he got injured and put on IR. Too bad

ESPN has reported that Chris Henry has died.

Just crazy and sad.

Guy had a lot of talent and wasted it for most of his time in the NFL... He was finally starting to get his act together and then this had to happen.

This is very sad.

My heart just sank when I read that he passed away. I heard him in a radio interview earlier this year and it really seemed he was trying to get his life together. So tragic. I think he played with Rodgers at Cal. I Wonder how Aaron is taking the news.

Henry was a WV Mountaineer.

jakecronus8 wrote:My heart just sank when I read that he passed away. I heard him in a radio interview earlier this year and it really seemed he was trying to get his life together. So tragic. I think he played with Rodgers at Cal. I Wonder how Aaron is taking the news.

You know it is sad when it makes the Rally Rabbit sad.

PS (and on a happier note): You were smashed last night dude.

It's tragic, he looked like he was finally starting to turn things around.

Very sad. He was turning his life around the way Sean Taylor was before he died.

RIP

It appears that he was involved in some sort of domestic dispute with his fiancee that lead to his death. This is very sad, but I don't think it can be equated to Sean Taylor.

RJay715 wrote:Very sad. He was turning his life around the way Sean Taylor was before he died.

RIP

That's what I thought of, too. Granted, not exactly the same situations given that Taylor was trying to protect his family from a robber.

Regardless, RIP.

EDIT: Oh, LarryHarris covered that already.

I didn't mean it in a way of how he died, I was just referring to the way he was turning his life around after getting in trouble frequently.

Witness saying he was threatening to jump off truck and kill himself if wife didn't stop.

I just heard on NFL Live. My God, this gets sadder by the minute.

http://www.thecharlottepost.com/index.p ... refno=2258

Chris Henry’s final gift will go to people he didn’t know.


Henry, a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals who died Dec. 17 after falling out of a pickup truck in Charlotte a day earlier, was an organ donor. LifeShare of the Carolinas, a Charlotte-based organ procurement agency that serves southwest North Carolina, doesn’t divulge information on donors, but confirmed Henry’s participation after receiving his family’s permission.


“After consulting with Chris’ mother, Carolyn Glaspy, we are confirming that Chris Henry was an organ and cornea donor who literally gave others a second chance at life,” LifeShare spokeswoman Debbie Gibbs said in a statement. “Due to privacy laws, information regarding any specific transplant recipient will remain confidential.”


Henry was buried Tuesday in Louisiana after a funeral attended by his Bengals teammates, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and family. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police are still investigating the Dec. 16 incident and have yet to offer charges.


“We do hope that his fans who are inspired by his story will take a few minutes to declare their own intentions to donate through their state registry at www.donatelife.net or through their state DMV,” Gibbs said.

Some good came from this.

That is good to hear. People keep saying Henry had/was turning around his life, but if that were the case, he wouldn't have been in this situation. That is my opinion. Good to see something positive coming out of this. I just can't get in to the lionization of Henry.

LarryHarris wrote:People keep saying Henry had/was turning around his life, but if that were the case, he wouldn't have been in this situation. I just can't get in to the lionization of Henry.

Well, because, of course, you completely understand why he was in that situation to begin with. Because, of course, it's his fault that he fell out and died. Because, of course, the countless teammates, friends, and coaches saying that he was back on the right path is a poor assessment of his life situation when compared to this one, unexplained act. What an idiotic and insensitive comment.

humanrefutation wrote:

LarryHarris wrote:People keep saying Henry had/was turning around his life, but if that were the case, he wouldn't have been in this situation. I just can't get in to the lionization of Henry.

Well, because, of course, you completely understand why he was in that situation to begin with. Because, of course, it's his fault that he fell out and died. Because, of course, the countless teammates, friends, and coaches saying that he was back on the right path is a poor assessment of his life situation when compared to this one, unexplained act. What an idiotic and insensitive comment.

Do you expect them to bash their dead teammate? People rarely say anything negative about someone after they die.

chuckleslove wrote:

humanrefutation wrote:

LarryHarris wrote:People keep saying Henry had/was turning around his life, but if that were the case, he wouldn't have been in this situation. I just can't get in to the lionization of Henry.

Well, because, of course, you completely understand why he was in that situation to begin with. Because, of course, it's his fault that he fell out and died. Because, of course, the countless teammates, friends, and coaches saying that he was back on the right path is a poor assessment of his life situation when compared to this one, unexplained act. What an idiotic and insensitive comment.

Do you expect them to bash their dead teammate? People rarely say anything negative about someone after they die.

Obviously not...but presuming that they would've bashed him if he wasn't their teammate, or if he wasn't dead, is a logical fallacy. I'm not saying he wasn't a knucklehead at one point. And he may have been now. But, by all accounts (media, teammate, coach, and otherwise), Henry was turning his life around. And, beyond that, the guy is dead. Let him RIP, rather than crapping on his grave.

Not trying to crap on the guys grave, simply stating my (objective) opinion on the situation, am I happy Henry is dead? Of course not. Do I feel bad for the people he left behind and all of those who are hurting because of his death? Yes.

However, in watching how ESPN and other networks covered his death, you would think he was Donald Driver (someone who, by all accounts, did turn his life around). Henry was the guy they called a "One Man Crime Spree." Maybe you feel it is important to overlook the deeds in someone's life after they pass on (i.e. how we forgot Michael Jackson was a pedophile because he died), but I feel like there is enough sad stuff in the world that when someone takes a stupid action the leads to their own death, and they are only famous because they had a ton of God-given talent that has been repeatedly squandered, we don't need to mourn the same way we did for someone like Shawn Taylor, who did nothing to bring about his death.

I don't know if you saw Notorious, the Biggie biopic, but my biggest problem with the movie was that the writers seemed to feel it was important to make us believe that Biggie had matured and became a man in the 11th hour of his life. I don't believe this is true. There was no real evidence to support this conclusion, yet we still received it, just like we are receiving it with Henry. It isn't the media's job to pull the wool over our eyes, but that is what they do.

This Henry story is just a pawn it the game of control public sentiment. They tell us he turned his life around even though his death provides some pretty stark contradictory evidence, but somehow, for acknowledging this, I am an insensitive jerk.

Sorry man, I just don't proscribe to your way of thinking...