The German goalkeeper's suicide...

His widow Teresa said she had hoped her love would help her husband pull through his crisis.

"I tried to give him hope again, to show him that football was not everything, that we had each other," she bravely told a press conference through the tears.

"I was always by his side: I believed, with love, we could pull through this.

"But football meant everything to him."

http://www.matthewyglesias.com/world/1174-germany-goalkeeper39s-suicide-came-after.html

I feel deeply saddened by this news. The day's paper had news about two other suicides as well. Both young boys, who had taken their lives. One after being punished by his teacher. Other after failing his exam.

It's even harder, seeing his wife talk on television, trying to hold back the tears. When you think of all the pain he's had to go through, he lost his two year old kid to a heart infection, you think, it must have been really really difficult to continue to go on.

But when you have someone who loves you and is there to be by your side, how then can you take your own life? That's something I am finding it so hard to understand.

I have always felt that, when someone is at a point where he is thinking of ending his life, all he needs to know is that he is invaluable to someone. It's only when they are convinced, that it would matter to no one, no one at all, if they were not to be there any longer, then and only then can they take that extreme step of taking their lives.

All those people who take their lives, I wish they knew they were not as alone as they thought themselves to be. And I wish strength to the people around them. May they inspire them to see the beauty that is there in life. Even when their share of pain is more than what they should have had.

But unfortunately, love alone was not enough for him. It is indeed work that gives our life meaning. And what happens when you lose that? Can love help tide you over?? In this case though, it couldn't. And that saddens me a great deal.

I wish his widow peace and the will to live, it's going to be even more harder for her to live without him now, but she has to, for her child.