To this day, I can't watch a Benoit match without feeling uneasy, sick about what he did at the end of his life, his son's short life, and his wife's. The man had some major brain damage from what he did. I don't know if it made him depressed, made him paranoid, or even violent. Towards the end of Junior Seau's life, he was doing some things that seemed uncharacteristic for him. He tried killing himself a couple times and ultimately succeeded. He got caught up in some domestic violence, though who knows if the brain damage from years of football had anything to do with it.
Mental illness can make people do very unreasonable, terrible things. Some of it you can't just will yourself out of. It's hard to say if Benoit was dealing with any of that other than he seemed to be on some anti-depressants. But it just seems like a lot of what went on that weekend seemed very deliberate.
The man killed his wife and his child. There's no explaining that away. Those around him year around didn't seem to say anything about him coming off as paranoid to the point that he'd lost all sense of reality and could kill someone without even realizing what he's doing.
Regardless of any of that though, he murdered his wife and child. It should be a no brainer that the WWE or most promotions or businesses wouldn't care to associate with him or his name.
And personally, I just can't accept him for being a good man. Even if that was one weekend, his memory is forever tarnished for me. First in my mind, the man will be known as a murderer.
