German nats suffer huge tragedy

Red Card · 10 Nov 2009, 07:27 PM

This tragedy is about #1 goal keeper Robert Enke. A loss like this is painful to all soccer fans.

Suicide is so unexplainable. Mental illness is the uncureable illness. We have chemo for cancer, bypass for heart disease, but nothing to prevent suicides.

Condolences to his family, friends, teammates and fans.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ls/8353733.stm

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/footba...nke/index.html

Pass-n-Go · 10 Nov 2009, 07:34 PM

Wow. Just wow. Condolences to his family.

irish56 · 10 Nov 2009, 07:41 PM

This must be really tough on Dolo.

Sandon Mibut · 10 Nov 2009, 07:46 PM

Man, his poor wife. First they lose a daughter then this.

Sandon Mibut · 10 Nov 2009, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by irish56

This must be really tough on Dolo.

Seriously.

First Charlie, then this.

I know it seems trivial right now, but as the captain at Hanover I wonder if he'll bail out of the Slovakia camp to go be with his club teammates.

aila76 · 10 Nov 2009, 08:02 PM

That is truly terrible news. I would just add, about mental illness being the "incurable" illness - that's not really the case. Which isn't to say anything neccessarily could have been done to prevent this, but one of the problems as far as treating mental illness is the stigma attached to it, wherein people don't neccessarily realise that it's just another form of sickness which has the potential to be cured like most disease. Most forms of mental illness are at least treatable. What makes suicide so terrible (other than the obvious) is it's very difficult to see warning signs beforehand if the person doesn't want you to. It's a terrible shock and a tragedy for all of his family and friends.