Posted on 01/16/2018 9:43:39 PM PST by ZagFan
Tyler Hilinski, 21, has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Pullman Police confirmed in a press release Tuesday night. The death of Hilinski, a redshirt sophomore quarterback for Washington State, has been ruled a suicide.
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There is no death. It is a great awakening.
In 2016 my stepson that I raised for 14 years took his life. He was 28. Even though I was over 500 miles away from him and we hadn’t spoken in years (due to his angry mother), he came to me at the moment immediately after his death and explained why he did it. This was prior to anyone knowing he was deasd.
We healed all wounds between us, which were minimal anyway, and I was allowed to cross over with him. I’ve experienced Heaven many times this way. The message everyone wants to send back to their loved ones is always, “Tell them I love them and I’m OK.” And often, “No, I’m better than Ok.”
Thank you for sharing that.
Unlike you my friend is still very reserved and cautious about sharing his experience. He’s not embarrassed or ashamed of what happened but he finds it impossible to provide an adequate or satisfying answer to most people who ask “why”. He says it just takes too much energy and patience and prefers to invest his time doing volunteer work at a mental health facility for teenagers and answering calls for the suicide prevention hotline.
“And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.” ~Romans 8:28~
Thanks. See my post #23. He’s doing very well and is committed to suicide prevention work now. Really good dude.
Very sad.
Any indications of CTE?
Hope the family agrees to an autopsy to check. There was a high school kid who killed himself last year. Was having horrible headaches and memory loss. Turns out, he had CTE and was still a teenager.
Regardless, prayers for the family.
So, I don't know if the steroid thing is going on in college but I can say that responsible coaches don't want to risk their jobs and their schools ability to play.
You’re pretty naive. The percentage of HIGH SCHOOL players in all sports is anywhere from 6-15% MINIMUM. It’s not “natural” to be 6’3” 240 lbs and run a 4.5 40-yrd dash with less than 10-% body fat. Or have seniors in high school over 300 lbs that can run 5 second 40yrd dash and squat or bench press 400lbs. Look at a 5-A or higher high school game and notice the beards, balding heads, and braces to keep the gaps in their teeth from growing due to jaw size growing.
> You’re pretty naive. The percentage of HIGH SCHOOL players in all sports is anywhere from 6-15% MINIMUM. It’s not “natural” to be 6’3” 240 lbs and run a 4.5 40-yrd dash with less than 10-% body fat. Or have seniors in high school over 300 lbs that can run 5 second 40yrd dash and squat or bench press 400lbs. Look at a 5-A or higher high school game and notice the beards, balding heads, and braces to keep the gaps in their teeth from growing due to jaw size growing.
It’s human growth hormone as well. There’s no tests for it and most people who take sports serious use it.
So sad. Someone like that has so much going for him. You have to wonder, how someone as blessed as he was suffer from such crushing despair, or depression, or whatever it was. RIP, poor boy.
Unrequited love involved?
It took me many years. Back then you didn’t share as no one understood. You even question yourself if you are nuts.
The problem is that most people who experience the Bliss of God’s Love think they are someone special as they were chosen for the experience and they end up owning the experience as a possession of ego. In doing so they lose the benefit of the experience.
“how someone as blessed as he was suffer from such crushing despair”
Prayers for this kid and his family - how devastating. I went to a tough and small engineering school. There was a suicide every year (4,000 students?). I figured it was the “blessed” kids with straight A’s in high school getting C’s, D’s and F’s. Like me! (It took me 4.5 years!). It’s tough when you are “on your own” and things don’t always go your way. You fail your first class, lose the football game, whatever. It seems that a lot of the college sports are practically “pro” - that’s got to be a lot of pressure for a 21-year old to handle.
My old man was proud of me though - thought that I was nuts for going there. He would tell people “Well - he’s getting B’s and C’s mostly - BUT, those would be A’s anywhere else!”
Exactly what I have always called it. Permanent solution to a temporary problem. Same with abortion...
But it is a sad and real problem. Depression can be all encompassing. Crushing. So sad.
I was just reading last week that suicide is the hardest death for family to deal with.
So, I don't know if the steroid thing is going on in college but I can say that responsible coaches don't want to risk their jobs and their school's ability to play.
I was talking about college, you are talking about high school.
I am sure there are plenty of college coaches who would not want to risk it.
Depression is a horrible thing. I’ve never seen suicide as a way out of anything. But I have been pretty down in my life. If you haven’t experienced anything like it, you cannot imagine. You just don’t “snap out of it.”
There have been times when I look at similar situations where there is more information, and I think...”Yeah, I get that.”
Thanks so much for sharing.
When I was in high school in the early ‘70s, the offensive line of our football team averaged around 180-190 lbs. Fifteen years later at the same school, the offensive line averaged about 265 lbs., and it’s stayed around the same ever since. No way did kids get that big that fast without artificial help.
That seem very strange. I have heard of numerous cases that were declared suicides and later turned out to be homicides.
Not entirely true. As someone who has been in the collegiate athletic medicine area for the last 40 years, I think I can say this fairly certain.
The strength and conditioning principles over the last 40 years are incredibly far ahead of what they were even back in 1970. This also include nutritional sciences, and athletic rehabilitation. We are working with science here, and not just "supplements and drugs". The advances you are seeing are the direct result of these scientific studies, research and hard work!
hate to break it to you but my kid played on a D-1 team and worked out with football players for 4 years. If you think that coaches give a crap if they use steroids, masking agents and other training aids, you are very naive.
The current PEDs are gone out of the system within hours and the masking agents is usually how they are caught.
the newer PEDs are heading towards actual genetic modification as well as supplements to naturally occurring hormones.
With the amount of money involved, it's really easy to see the money corrupting behavior.
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