Football player Terrell Owens, from the Dallas Cowboys, tried to commit suicide Tuesday evening.
Lt. Rick Watson, a spokesman for the police department, said police were called to Owens’ residence shortly before 8 p.m. Central Time by paramedics who were already there treating him. He said no criminal activity took place and there was no police investigation under way.
He declined to provide further details, but a police report posted online by WFAA television in Dallas said Owens was “attempting suicide by prescription pain medication.� The medication was apparently to treat the pain of broken bone in his right hand suffered in a game on Sept. 17 against the Washington Redskins.
According to the report, Owens told police that he was depressed in an interview at Baylor Hospital, where he was taken for treatment. A woman companion said she noticed him putting two of the pain pills in his mouth and attempted to remove them.
Well, I assume that it is safe to say that one is ‘depressed’ when one tries to kill oneself.
It is, quite clearly, an incredibly sad thing. How people can get so depressed that they are willing to kill themselves, to get rid of that horrible feeling, is something a lot of people do not understand. I dare to say that it is not understandable for rational thinking people.
At the moment a person tries to commit suicide they have already lost all rationality.
Anyway: this has, without a doubt, been an incredibly dark period in Terrell’s life. I hope that he gets through it. Now is decision day for him: he needs to receive great support; both from his family, from his team and from professionals.
In the end though, it is his decision to work on his problems or not. Lets hope he does.
