Alexis Arguello commits suicide

It is always possible that it was an accident.

What I will say is that when people kill themselves it generaly comes totaly out of the blue. I have known two people who have done it including one former flat mate.

Their mood actualy improves in the days leading up to it because they have made up their mind that they are going to do it and don't have to worry about anything. The last thing they are going to do is tell you about it because then youi would try to stop them.

Prety scary when it happens.

 

All very true.

I also wonder if there might have been a last straw, so to speak... in articles I've read it seemed like Arguello was really wracked with guilt and shame about his issues with addictions, and the thought that others would have to help support him/that he couldn't get through on his own. Maybe he had a last relapse into drinking or something else and couldn't stand it afterward.

Maybe he inherited some kind of depressive disorder from his father, who tried to commit suicide at one point when Arguello was a kid. When that's the case it doesn't matter if someone has everything to live for, and tons of people who love them. They may understand that intellectually, but deep down they truly come to believe that life isn't worth living, that nothing is right, that death is the only way to make the pain stop.

Who can say why Arguello did what he did. All I can keep thinking is that hopefully he's in a better place now, and at peace.

Vaya con dios, Alexis.

 

I actually remember when Arguello was running for mayor, he disappeared for some time and no one knew where he was. I thought right then that that might've been the end of him, but he reappeared and said he was OK. Still, I wonder if that was connected somehow, or foreshadowed things to come.

 

Yeah I remember when nobody had heard from Argeullo for a while I just figured he was keeping a low profile since he is an icon in his country and probably gets little privacy. Now it might have been due to depression or something (who knows) rather then just keeping a low profile.

 

Very sad news indeed. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

R.I.P. Alexis, you will be missed.

 

I don't buy the suicide thing. Any additional info to convince me?

 

i know how you feel i had had a very bad few days before it and it just made it worse

 

The odd thing is that he was alwyas in Conflict with his countries government. He was on his way to a political career and then gets shot in the chest. Odd indeed but suicide .....i dont buy it

 

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:blood

 

Don't know what to say to that. Heavy stuff.

 

so sad a true warrior laid to rest and a true warrior paying his tributes

 

As I start to come out of the tremendous shock of this, I'm struck by the contrast between all these youthful avatar tributes, and how relatively heavy he had become by the end. I realize he was 57 years old, but he had remained relatively slim through most of his retirement from boxing. Sometimes, a precipitious weight loss or weight gain is a warning sign. I wonder how much he weighed at the end.

 

ill never forget that photo

 

I would rather remember the man in a boxing ring rather than dead in a coffin.