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speculation is took his own life
(http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/100226/jeret-peterson_300.jpg)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/jeret-speedy-peterson-dead-suicide_n_910477.html
SALT LAKE CITY -- Olympic silver medalist Jeret "Speedy" Peterson was found dead in a remote canyon in Utah in what police are calling a suicide. One of the world's most risk-taking and innovative freestyle skiers, the creator of the one-of-a-kind "Hurricane" called 911 before shooting himself, police said. The 29-year-old had been cited for drunken driving Friday in Hailey, Idaho and had pleaded not guilty.
Officers found Peterson late Monday night between Salt Lake City and Park City in Lambs Canyon. Police said a suicide note was found near Peterson's car; they declined to reveal what it said.
"Regardless of the amazing stuff he did skiing, it was the stuff he did for other people that was incredible to me," said Peterson's longtime coach and friend, Matt Christensen. "A lot of people saw his story and said he must be a wild jackass and a cowboy. He was just the opposite."
He was one of the most colorful of athletes, and he wore his heart on his sleeve – never more than on Feb. 25, 2010, when he walked off the mountain with tears streaming down his face after taking the Olympic silver medal.
"I know that a lot of people go through a lot of things in their life, and I just want them to realize they can overcome anything," Peterson said that night. "There's light at the end of the tunnel and mine was silver and I love it."
It was a poignant chapter to a career that, until then, had been filled with success on the smaller stages of his fringe sport but defined in the mainstream by his moment at the Turin Olympics where, after finishing seventh, he was sent home early after a minor scuffle with a buddy in the street.
Over the next months and years, he began filling in the details of a life story replete with incredible highlights and crushing disappointments.
While in Italy, he was still reeling from the suicide of a friend, who shot himself in front of Peterson only months before.
Peterson also had problems with alcohol and depression and admitted he had his own thoughts of suicide, all stemming from a childhood in which he was sexually abused and lost his 5-year-old sister to a drunken driver.
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i'd off myself too if i won silver.
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I know that a lot of people go through a lot of things in their life, and I just want them to realize they can overcome anything
looks like, in the long run, a silver medal at the olympics isnt enough to definitly cure family related traumas that ocured in childhood or adolescence..
from wikipedia
n Italy, he was still reeling from the suicide of a friend, who had shot himself in front of Peterson only months before. Peterson also had problems with alcohol and depression and admitted he had his own thoughts of suicide stemming from a childhood in which he was sexually abused and, when he was 5 years old, lost his then 18-year-old sister Kim to a drunken driver accident
Oh, another kid who got sexually abused by an adult caregiver, must have been a closet homosexual and finally offed himself.
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While in Italy, he was still reeling from the suicide of a friend, who shot himself in front of Peterson only months before.
Guess somebody didn't want to go alone and at the same time make a statement
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given that his sister was killed by a drunk driver, getting caught drinking and driving himself was probably devestating
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no, driving intoxicated is always an attempt to kill yourself, whatever the way you look at it. It was just a first attempt, a preparation of the second one.
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given that his sister was killed by a drunk driver, getting caught drinking and driving himself was probably devestating
So he got caught drinking? I understand the DUI aspect but caught drinking? you need to explain that to me.
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Suicide is so selfish leaving your loved ones to cope with a preventable loss is wrong.
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Suicide is so selfish leaving your loved ones to cope with a preventable loss is wrong.
Its a pretty successful and final way of ending your life tho, suicide has a nearly 100% success rate of ending up dead.
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Suicide is so selfish leaving your loved ones to cope with a preventable loss is wrong.
he reproduced what he saw...
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My wife and I planned to commit suicide together.But once she'd killed herself, things suddenly looked a lot more positive.
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My wife and I planned to commit suicide together.But once she'd killed herself, things suddenly looked a lot more positive.
Did you do the ol' you go first trick?
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I don't get the point of suicide if you do it any other way besides OD'ing
seriously, if you are gonna go out you might as well go out enjoying it
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Not like he was going to write Beethoven's 9th symphony anyway.
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My wife and I planned to commit suicide together.But once she'd killed herself, things suddenly looked a lot more positive.
Did you happen to knock one off after she killed herself for one last lay?
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I don't get the point of suicide if you do it any other way besides OD'ing
seriously, if you are gonna go out you might as well go out enjoying it
Right and actually you're still alive. You're living proof that no matter how fucked up one can be one can find the resilience to go on and actually look on the bright side of things.
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Right and actually you're still alive. You're the living proof that no matter how fucked up one can be one can find the resilience to go on and actually look on the bright side of things.
seriously- i'm pretty fucking awesome
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seriously- i'm pretty fucking awesome
But only as long as you can pay for those tanning sessions.....
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But only as long as you can pay for those tanning sessions.....
Youre being facetious but you don't know how true you are
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no, driving intoxicated is always an attempt to kill yourself, whatever the way you look at it. It was just a first attempt, a preparation of the second one.
there's a fuck load of people who want to kill themself then
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I didn't know him, but too young too soon of course, RIP..
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there's a fuck load of people who want to kill themself then
and another fuckload on anti depressants.
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I didn't know him, but too young too soon of course, RIP..
me either just thought it was sad
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they ruined the winter olympics with all the snowboarding and free-style crap >:(
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Suicide is so selfish leaving your loved ones to cope with a preventable loss is wrong.
Yeah, you should always take someone to hell with you.
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I said it when Amy W died and Ill say it again:
Addiction is a bitch