This is the guy who got sodomized with a pvc pipe by those animals awhile back. He jumped to his death off of a cruise ship last week. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4956925.html Mourners gather to remember David Ritcheson PAIGE HEWITT Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle About 500 mourners who turned out for David Ritcheson's funeral mass today were told to turn to God to make sense of why he jumped to his death from a cruise ship. "Our human understanding cannot fathom why this happened ... why David is called in the spring of his life," Monsignor Seth Hermoso said. "It is not for us to search for answers. It is for us to look into our individual lives and our society and be able to look at God's love and mercy and forgiveness." The traditional mass for Ritcheson, who had survived a brutal assault by white supremacists in April of 2006 and intense media coverage since then, was held at St. John Neumann Catholic Church on the city's north side. After visitors filled the church, eight of Ritcheson's friends somberly carried his casket, covered by a beige cotton blanket and topped by a gold crucifix, to the front of the sanctuary. About 30 emotional family members trailed behind them. Teenagers and adults sobbed as the priest delivered scripture. Some softly shook their heads as if they were struggling to understand the Spring teen's suffering over the last 14 months. "He's gone," Hermoso said. "From now on he won't be anymore in our world. But he still lives in us. As long as there are memories, David is alive." The priest called on visitors to be mindful that people must be able to live with and get along with one another. "Unfortunately, evil is in the world," he said. "But yet evil cannot overcome the very love of God. ... We will not give in. All of us can do our own little share for making this a better place to live in." After the mass, Ritcheson's cousin, Felix Fernandez, said the teen was a happy young man who had a "great heart." Ritcheson's suicide, he said, surprised him and other family members. He and Ritcheson had spoken a few days before the teen left for the cruise. "He said, 'Hey man, I've got some tickets to see the Astros,'" Fernandez said. "He was excited about going." He said Ritcheson, who rejected psychiatric counseling, didn't want to share his pain. "He didn't want anybody to hurt like he hurt," Fernandez said.
I guess it woulda been sadder if that incident, instead of ultimately killing him, turned him ghey. im kidding.....i feel bad now.
^ That statement was gay... RIP... I guess the torrment and thoughts of everything was way too much...
well maybe it actually did turn him ghey and thats why he killed himself. not because of the actual event. joking geez
The only thing sadder is that this was posted last week. I expect more from a season veteran like Faos. I expect him to return strong for the next game.
Obviously what the kid suffered was tremendous and jarring, but a part of me thinks that the kid blew a second chance at life. Its is sort of like a cancer survivor drinking himself to death. I feel real bad about the situation, but normally, I thought people would embrace life even more after surviving something like this.
