First thing first... RIP Taylor. With all due respect, someone's wife and child lost their husband and dad, and that is the toughest thing of all. Regardless of how, this is tragic.
Second, depression is real and very dangerous. When someone feels like they have no friends, have no reason to live, and that part of the brain creates a situation that depresses you even more, the mental state of you in feels that you not being in our world is better off that being here, even with his family. It is really tough.
And I have seen it three times now first hand. One, we were lucky to get him help, in the treatment out hospital for 30 days, which did help. The second, of a friend of ours, we lost him. Two kids, a loving wife. But he really didn't know or bothered to follow someone every step of our life, and we were busy, and he went to the garage, turned on the car, and that is where she found him, without the kids, thank god.
The third, I am dealing with now, another competitor who thinks she has no friends, no will, and trying to explain that she does, and show her that she has more than many others can have or will have. It is not easy, especially on those quiet Saturday nights when it is quiet at home for her, and she is sitting there with no one who cares. But people do.
So please...
Vince, you did it all wrong. You don't rush to donate to someone who just died. You first put up a thread titled RIP Taylor, you learn about the person in our industry, who he has, what he did, the good things, and tough on the bad things too. Then, if the family, the wife requests it, you put something up to donate.
Most of us outside the industry didnt know this person. I knew of him, but Aaron was his friend, I get it. And it is important to know, for myself, being in the industry, It saddens me that we all are vulnerable, but do care somewhat.
