Former Georgetown football player Ryan O’Donoghue told his wife that he was “too sick to recover” in a letter before he died by suicide at age 46 in 2025.
Ryan’s widow, Tara, reflected on the end of her late husband’s life after researchers at Boston University diagnosed him with stage III chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
“He knew that there was a demon lurking that he couldn’t shake and that the dream we had been building was crashing with confusion around us,” Tara told the Colorado Sun in a story published Friday, May 15.
CTE is a degenerative brain disease that can only be diagnosed...
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