Pro Wrestlers & Death. A Fans Point Of View.

Yesterday I learned of the death of "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Apparently he had a heart attack and smashed his car into a tree.  Like many of my generation,I grew up watching him along with Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Ric Flair, and The Undertaker to name a few. Today we hear all the time about there deaths, which is the normal process of life, people die. The only problem is that all too often these people are still young when this happens. A few years ago we learned of the death of Chris Benoit, the wrestler who killed his wife and son and then himself. When a study done on his brain by Dr. Julian Bailes Head of Neurosurgery at West Virginia University the results showed that "Benoit's brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of a 85 year old Alzheimer's patient." There are other examples of wrestlers dying at a young age and from not so natural deaths. Edward Fatu also known as "Umaga" passed away in 2009 from a heart attack at 36, Andrew Martin A.K.A "Test" died at 33 from a oxycodone overdose, "Ravishing" Rick Rood died in 1999 from a heart attack at 40, he had once testified to taking anabolic steroids, Curt "Mr. Perfect" Henning died from Acute Cocaine Intoxication. One of my favorite wrestlers was Eddie Guerrero, in 2005 after a show here in Indianapolis he was found dead in his hotel room in Minneapolis, MN. He died  of acute heart failure. Suicide, drug overdoses, heart failures, addictions to pain pills and steroids, how do these guys (and Gals) live the way they do with the constant threat of severe injury always tucked in there mind? How do they go on when the show stops?