[iontheball]

“Assisted” suicide? I would think those with a mental instability which might trigger a suicide would have been weeded out long before rising to such a high level of rank and command.

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I also think it is fair to question how an officer who gets an annual physical, plus meets physical conditioning requirements suddenly winds up with a widow maker heart attack. One attack and lights out for good.

[rlmorel]

Neither the nature of the annual physical nor meeting physical conditioning requirements mandated by the US Navy diminish much the possibility of a sudden medical issue such as a stroke or cardiac event.

They don't even do an ECG during those annual physicals that I am aware of and that annual physical requirements are really nothing...heck, here is a quote from the standards I saw: "...Event consists of running 1.5 miles as quickly as possible. Any combination of running or walking is allowed to complete event..."

That likely means you have to walk briskly to get a "medium" score...

What I am trying to say is let's wait until we have more information before we start accusing him of having an affair or doing some dishonorable thing. I don't know anything about the guy, he might be an Obama butt-boy or he might not. But I think we should hold off and give him the benefit of the doubt until we find out otherwise.

[Robert DeLong]

Oh that happens more often than one imagines. It’s called sudden cardiac arrest. It happens when a sudden blockage in a coronary artery severely reduces or cuts off blood flow to the heart, damaging heart muscle. Use of an automated external defibrillator, within 1 minute, gives a person a chance to survive.