Write An Essay On Andre Waters's Suicide

Andre Waters McKenna Templeton 02/13/18 7

Andre Waters was born on March 10th, 1962. Later on after graduating college Andre was a NFL player for the Philadelphia Eagles where he played as a safety. After playing in the NFL for multiple years, Water retired and began coaching college players. At the age of 44 Waters committed suicide. On November 20th 2006, Waters had died of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He had donated his brain to science so they could continue doing research. While examining his brain doctors had diagnosed him with CTE. “...The condition of Waters' brain tissue was

This is why most CTE cases are found in football players, because of the many blows they receive. They are not just found in football players though, there have been some reported cases of other athletes having CTE such as soccer players. Waters had received many many concussions throughout the years. Some say that he had stopped counting after receiving his fifthteenth concussion.

“ Andre was one of the nicest, most compassionate people you could ever meet. “ (1) This is just a few of the many things that described Andre Waters and the amazing things he did in life. Andre was severly depressed, some think that the CTE might have cause his deppresion leading to his suicide, and others don’t.

Some of his family member such as his niece had noticed things were wrong. She said that she always knew her uncle was depressed but he never sought medical help or medication for it. "I saw him suffer in silence and I saw him struggle to find peace and find rest and that was what I was praying for him to get."(3) They knew that Andre had been depressed for years because of all sorts of things that were happening in his life. There were custody battles going on,and he had later lost his job and had to move down to coaching division 2 players