Yeah I thought so. From what I recall, his son was at a crossing and the train passed from one direction and the kid went under/around the boom gate on his bike and got struck from the other direction. I think the first train obstructed the view of the other.happy feet wrote: ↑Sun 24 Oct 2021 9:58amThanks for the correction Skeptic. I did think it was suicide but I was wrong. It was an accident when Stan’s 13 year old was hit by a train when riding his bike. There is a natural order in life and for a parent to lose a child, the grief must be hard to comprehend.skeptic wrote: ↑Sat 23 Oct 2021 11:14pmI thought it was an accident?happy feet wrote: ↑Sat 23 Oct 2021 7:27pmStan had massive family issues to contend with. Any parent dealing with a child committing suicide has more to cope with than any of us will ever know or understand.shanegrambeau wrote: ↑Sat 23 Oct 2021 4:54pm Did anyone come seeking Stan Alves after he finished with us?
Never read anything that’s suggested otherwise.
Either way, what a horrible thing.
Reading Stan’s book, his account of that period of his life… going through the denial, how his family almost completely broke apart and how a business he was a part went under because he simply couldn’t cope…
Really heart breaking stuff
A lot of good stuff there about how they learned to cope with it and support each other/adapt and the importance of talking about it.
For whatever reason, a section that always resonated with me is how he and his wife were having a fight about getting rid of some of their son’s stuff… when they’re daughter broke down and emphasised to them that she had also lost a brother and felt like it was as though that didn’t matter to them.
He wrote about how shocked he was to hear that and being unaware they were coming across that way.
Really good book… def one of the better auto-biographies out there if you can live with the fact that it’s not just about being coach of St.Kilda which some here have criticised it for