they havent really said yet (that i've seen), but who exactly found him? was it his wife or children? (I have to assume that).. how horrible would that have been?

I think it'd go too far if the media reported who exactly found him.

redwhiteAustrian wrote:

Who was that classless Bastard who screamed "Citeh!" before the minute of silence for Gary Speed was finished?

Probably Nasri.

Good to see the club shows respect.
Tough blow for Ramsey.
Playing for Wales and being part of the Welsh set-up has been so important for him since he came back from injury.

He's going to have to grow up fast now.

That is spectacular.

Still shocked that Gary Speed killed himself. I know outward appearances can mean little, but, still. What a horrible Christmas it will be for his wife and two lads.

R.I.P Gary Speed

My thoughts go out to his family, especially to his two kids.

RIP Gary Speed. I will always remember him as a Newcastle player during their most recent heyday: a courageous midfielder with a great engine and a touch of class.

Depression is a fucked up thing. Makes no sense at all that it would claim the life of a celebrated professional footballer: if only someone could've intervened to remind him that his achievements in life were basically every young boy's fantasy.

Still can't over the Gary Speed thing. This really got to me much more than I would have thought. Been absolutely miserable since reading it yesterday morning and the girlfriend has even had ask me what's wrong. Can't remember the last time I felt so low about something and he's not even someone I ever really thought about and I can't stand any of the teams he played for. Think it's because he seemed to be a genuinely decent and well respected person and not the vile lowest of the lowest scum like John Terry. Just doesn't seem to make any sense to anyone.

invisibleman18 wrote:

Still can't over the Gary Speed thing. This really got to me much more than I would have thought. Been absolutely miserable since reading it yesterday morning and the girlfriend has even had ask me what's wrong. Can't remember the last time I felt so low about something and he's not even someone I ever really thought about and I can't stand any of the teams he played for. Think it's because he seemed to be a genuinely decent and well respected person and not the vile lowest of the lowest scum like John Terry. Just doesn't seem to make any sense to anyone.

It's sad, but he chose to do what he did. It's the kids that I really feel sorry for.

I have nothing but contempt for people who take their own lives. Fucking cowards. Deal with your problems instead of putting everyone who cares about you in the position Gary Speed has put his family in.

Well yeah it's mostly sadness for the wife and kids and just the fact that someone with seemingly everything to live for and all the support in the world could end up doing this with noone at all having any idea he had any problems.

Some harsh views in here. The bloke was mentally ill.

I don't understand why Gary Speed took his own life, I can't imagine how fractured a state a mind he would have to have been in to contemplate putting a rope around his own neck and snap it in two rather than go through another minute of living.

To me that's horrific and truly terrifying.

I hope that nobody that I know or care about ever reaches such a desolate isolated stage.

We're most of us lucky enough never to have been in that dark place but chances are it could hit anyone here at anytime in their lives.
It's known that people who do suffer severe depression end up taking their own lives because they can't talk about what's killing them from the inside.
That's why people often do not see it coming, that's why there is shock when it happens.
It's not surprising really given how harshly and contemptuously people who have this illness are judged.