“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon

Nobody Would Help End My Life

by Carol Silva, Long Island Woman, October/November 2023

Before my accident, I’d describe myself saying, ‘I played football or wrestled or liked baseball. By the way, I’m a good student.’”

Then came October 31, 1970. “I was playing football at Cornell–linebacker–the day of my accident. We’d just scored a touchdown. Next play I tackled the ball carrier, broke my neck and damaged my spinal cord–C4, C5. I’m paralyzed over most of my body.” Sitting in Ken Kunken’s Rockville Centre kitchen I asked him if he wanted to die. “Absolutely. If I’d had the option I wouldn’t have lived, but nobody would help end my life.”

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