Chris Benoit and family found dead

From wrestlingobserver.com:

There is very little conclusive regarding the death of Chris Benoit, wife Nancy and son Daniel.

The three were found dead by the sheriff's department in Peachtree City, GA, after a WWE official had called because they had been unable to reach Chris after numerous attempts.

Lt. Tommy Pope told the Associated Press that it was being investigated as a homicide pending results of a preliminary autopsy report that will come out tomorrow. No gunshot wounds were found.

 

How does this "industry" continue to get away with such a staggering premature death rate?

Oversight needs to be in place for this circus. I'm tired of reading these kinds of stories.

 

Understandable.

 

On the surface, and unlike 99% of premature wrestling deaths, this one does not seem to be related to drugs/steroids.

Again, on the surface.

 

What the hell? This has nothing to do with steroids. Guessing they didn't all have heart attacks.

 

Moddy, we aren't treating it as part of the show. It's just still kind of hard to believe with the shitty storylines WWE has been feeding us the last few weeks.

 

I'm just saying, in general, wrestlers tend to die young of all sorts of causes.

Drug abuse, of course, being top billing.

 

Right now, the only wrestler I can think of who didn't die because of drugs is Owen Hart.

 

From the updated AJC.com story:

 

None of this is making any sense. We go from Nancy and his son are bleeding from the mouth to this?

 

If it weren't wrestling, it wouldn't seem like a wrestling show, but it'd be a really surreal circumstance. Like Ken Caminiti. Now put that against a pro wrestling backdrop, and one in which the legitimate chairman of WWE pretended to die on screen, and then consider that tonight's episode was supposed to be a "memorial service" to him, and now it's a legitimate memorial to a legitimately dead wrestler ... it's hard to discuss it WITHOUT having it come off like part of the show, because it's so bloody strange and shocking.