Doctors Want to Study Chris Benoit's Brain

I didn't know he had one!

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Mr. Grant. Why not look around and scrape up a little class and refrain from juvenile comments, especially considering the (much unknown about) circumstances of the death of this family. If nothing else then out of respect for his grieving parents who are trying to make sense of this whole thing.

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The circumstances? A brain-dead roided-out wrestler brutally murders his family. And I should show him some class? No thank you.

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Circumstances? We all know what happened. A roided-out ego-maniac went berserk! But I see your point. Of course it's a tragedy. And that's an understatement. I'd like to jump in line with all the bleeding hearts. And say "I understand". But how the hell can we?

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You know saw Chris Benoit on Friday around 1:40 PM at a gas station in Fayette county Georgia and I remember saying to myself, look how he is just doing the same kind f stuff as I am buying a a soft drink and talking with a friend. Who would know what was going to happen, such a tragedy, may they rest in peace.

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Mr. grant have some class for the remaining family, Of course we know where your brain is. You flushed it

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Dr.:"We'd like permission to put his brain remains under a microscope to see if repeated trauma to his brain caused his violent behavior."

Wrestler's brother: "WHAT?????????? WHAT?????????? YOU ****ING SUN**A***CH!!!!! I OUGHT TO PUT YOU IN TO A HEADLOCK UNTIL THE REFEREE HAS TO CALL THE POLICE!!! WHERE'S THE REFEREE????!!!"

Dr."Sir, why are you this upset? It was only an honest question?"

Wrestler:" Sorry doctor. I'm just upset that he didn't let me in on the action also."

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I was just joking with the previous post.

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How can the doctor ask his family for permission to study Benoit's brain? What's he going to do, go to the graves of his wife and son and say, "Can I have permission to study Chris' brain?"

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Exactly. What brain?

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Have some class for the remaining family? That is absurd!! (Hey, don't react to or make any critical remarks about CB, you know, killing his family. In time there will be a reasonable explanation and we will all feel very sorry for blaming this on Benoit when we discover that he was not responsible, for himself.)

Nothing indignant or classless (or insensitive to the remaining family) about leveling criticisms at Benoit!! To the contrary, if I were a remaining family member (particularly on the wife's side) I would be outraged by those who want to defend these unspeakable acts or try to explain them away or rationalize them! Unless he was suffering from some delusion or brain condition (not self inflicted by drug use) then he is, in general, responsible for himself and accountable for his actions. Nothing insensitive or classless about holding him accountable!! I know, it does go against the American culture, where no one is ever responsible for what they do.

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You know, they say Jeffrey Dahmer suffered from psycosis and was unable to help himself or distinguish the true nature of his actions. But, he still was held to account wasn't he? Why should it be any different for Benoit?


Every day someone kills their family and themselves, or goes on a school shooting spree, or kills a dozen people in a workplace. It is a tough world we live in, and some people are not wired to handle it apparently. But we don't give a pass to these people, refrain from criticizing them, feel more sorry for them than the victims of their acts!!

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Concerning the Benoit brain analysis, what comes to mind is the situation one deals with when a specimen is sent to the lab for evaluation and it comes back untested due to "QNS"....that means "Quantity Not Sufficient".

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first off let me say that what benoit did was atroscious in every sense of the word. the taking of life is never justified. but i have been following wrestling for over 40 years and have a very different take on what "snapped" in his mind.
Everyone knows that wrestling is only entertainment. RIGHT? but to men like benoit i think it was much more. even though the outcome of matches is known there is still a pride in wrestlers. just like in baseball there is that ultimate goal of makin it to the big leagues. not the minors or even worse a farm team. chris came up thru the ranks. it took him years to reach the WWE. and in the WWE the majors are considered RAW. chris used to wrestle on RAW. then he was sent to the minors SMACKDOWN. and as i am sure everyone remembers he was going to wrestle on ECW the day he snapped. maybe a small part of his breakdown was triggered by this letdown.
i blame vince for this. his only goal is to use and abuse his wrestlers. and he knows they have no place better to go. they are stuck there if they want to make a descent living. vince only sees them as moneymakers and when they fail to ignite the crowd they are simply removed. i am sure that benoits DEMOTION was not taken well. he would never accept this move.
once again i do not in any way condone benoits actions but i do try to understand it.

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I'd like to weigh in a bit more as my background is in neurology.
As much as I believe it would be instructive to view the Benoit brain and those of deceased depressed NFL players who had concussions, I think we are missing the larger point brought home by writers above who cite Dahmers and "everyday psychotics" who go on killing sprees.
As a society, why do allow sports that feature head injury in the first place? Does anyone really think that Mohammed Ali's Parkinson's is not related to his multiple head traumas? We whitewash the story just as the Benoit killing spree is made quasi-biological via the "steroid defense". As far as the NFL players- concussions per se don't cause dementia and morbid depression. However, if we had the Head CT's or MRI's of people like Ali, Benoit and NFL players who sustain concussions during their playing careers, I think we as a society could better comment on whether it would be advisable to allow for a given athlete or a sport like wrestling to continue.
The Dolphins just picked up Trent Green who has a major concussion in his history. Why isn't his brain scan result public? Does he even know what the results of it mean? Or are we one step from the Aztecs who would perform these brutal sacrifices on their "sports heroes" during public displays of mutilation?
Getting back to the "larger issue" noted earlier: We need to understand much more about the sociological impact of a violence ridden culture on our "super heroes". I would buttress that argument with the likelihood that a Dahmers or a "typical family killer" or even someone like Benoit is unlikely to have a neuroscientific basis (chemical/anatomical/physiological)for deranged behavior.
What is deranged is a society that glorifies the violent as seen in the recent movie Mr. Brooks. I wonder if Benoit saw it and decided in some corner of his mind to have his life imitate that "art".

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" dripping fecal matter???" good lord, your e mail name alone tells us what type of person you are!!! "ross??" what university did you go to? your comments are childish and noone wants to hear them.didnt your parents tell you ,"if you dont have anything nice to say,,,SHUT UP??" SO,, DO SO,SHUT UP! I MET CHRIS BENOIT AFTER A SHOW IN OKC. WHEN ALL THE OTHER WRESTLERS CAME OUT AND GOT INTO THEIR RESPECTIVE CARS AND LIMOS,,, BENOIT WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAME OVER TO ME AND MY 3 YR OLD AND BEGAN A CONVERSATION. HE MOSTLY TALKED TO MY LITTLE BOY. EVEN POSED FOR A PIC.( & is hanging on wall of my little boy ) SEEMED SO NICE AND POLITE AND VERY FRIENDLY.( NOT OVERLY FRIENDLY,( ROSS ) ) SO,, i am having a very hard time understanding this and this is a very hard time for those of us who appreciated his talent , lifestyle, and struggled to stay on top.as i said,, I MET THIS GUY!!!!!!! SHOOK HIS HAND!!!! WAS VERY NICE PERSON. NEVER, EVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD OF GUESSED THIS COULD/ WOULD HAPPEN! SO, SPEAKING AS A PERSON WHO ACUTALLY MET THE GUY,, PLEASE SHOW A LITTEL RESPECT FOR ALL HES DONE IN 22 YRS OF WRESTLING AND ESPCIALLY TO HIS FAMILY!!! JUST IMAGINE HOW THEY FEEL!! GOD BLESS THEM ALL!

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We are NOT the "University of West Virginia". We are WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. Do a little research, or use your common sense.

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cb was probably the greatest technical wrestler of all time in a phoney entertaining sport. he is not the first to die nor will he be the last to die due to the cause and effect of the grind against the body. he would regret what he did for sure but what is more pathetic than what he diud are some of the stupid comments being made by lame brain people who have never been in a wrestling match in their life.

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Great Post Ken-M.D. !!

Your commentary is thoughtful, intellectual, and responsive to the big picture!! Raises great questions indeed! Quite a rarity on the fanhouse blogs!...LOL Is society itself not a major contributor to the very outcomes it so loathes? Certainly in some instances there would be a pathology to explain such behaviors, and studying Benoit or Trent Green's brain may indeed prove beneficial in recognizing these. But in many other case I do believe the environment in which one exists, our society in particular, contributes greatly, perhaps mostly, to such abbherance. With the right determiners, this is lurking within a great deal many people, who in a rationale moment would be appalled at such a notion. As a general proposition, until we can assuredly point to other factors, people must be held accountable for their individual behavoirs.

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do any of you know he suffered from deppression and was bipolar and was hospitalized last year for a good 4 months to have a procedure to try to fix it vagus nerve stimuly i believe it is ...but u people are all as bad as bill o'reilly using your opinions as facts,taking a lil info and then jumping to conclusions just wait til toxicology comes back you all will be eating your words chris benoit in his right mind could not do such a thing his children were his life .so unless the wife killed his son which doesnt match the timeline just think to yourself why have they raided his dr. office twice and his mother's home what has caused pycosis and homicidal acts....anti-depressants i hope the beniot and i forget nancy's last name but her parents sue for millions just like phil hatman's parents did when his wife killed him .

im done wasting my time on ou immature ignorant losers


cameron

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