http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/mainstream-press-reports/andy-irons-autopsy-report-delayed_51196/ This pisses me off. Camping in his front yard just to get a story? Give me a break, leave the Irons alone. I don't care how he died. He's still a legend and one of my favorite all time surfers. People are so simple...
I had already assumed he accidentally OD'd trying to get through the night. It's doubtful that a man in his early thirties would die from Dengue. Far more likely he took too much of something (methadone or sleeping pills?) to try to deal with the extreme pain/discomfort of a second bout with Dengue. I don't really see how this would even tarnish his memory if it turned out to be true. Think Watergate... the cover up is almost always more damaging than the original act...
what a total fu*king nightmare his wife must be going through right now. I hope she can capitalize somehow on all this media coverage and have all the money she deserves to raise her child.
AI's manager set up a trust fund for the child and everyone can donate to it. heres the link to the espn article about it but in it is a link to fannings website and on his website it give you details on how to donate. http://sports.espn.go.com/action/surfing/news/story?id=5952238
Sorry to sound jaded, but what a fing disgrace having people donate money to a fund for the child of a high profile athlete like Andy Irons. Hundreds of children are left fatherless a day in far dire circumstances than this. And if Billabong had any sort of compasion, they should pony up the support for this family for the rest of their lives considering the income Andy generated for them throughout his career. I think it's in amazingly poor taste to have set this thing up in the first place.
Skegg Leggs makes a really good point , They guy was a legend and it is a true tragedy, but at the same time millions of kids all over the world grow up fatherless no body is donating sums of money towards their cause i guess it goes back to the sliver-spoon
im not trying to piss anyone off but to me it seems like billabong is helping andys wife and kid, so is volcom and bruce. but then all the surfers are wanting to help them since andy was such an inspiration to all of surfing. so its great that the surfing community is helping the irons family in this need. so you gotta think of it that the surfing community is helping a fallen brothers family.
If it helps, maybe instead of giving money to Andy's kid, why not just direct the money to the charity organizations that AI was a part of, like that grom surf contest they always have in Kauai. Now that he's gone, the chances of those things continuing may be slim.
It is a tragedy that AI died so young - and left a young wife and child, however something sounds kinda odd when you do not want the autopsy results released. As far as the finances (doantions) I wonder how much AI had won in contests and what his contract with his sponsors provided him? Seeing how he won The World Title you would think he was being compensated pretty well. I also would think there would have been a life insurance policy provided since being a pro surfer might have made it hard to buy one on his own. Insurance companies might view surfing Pipe , Chopes etc to be a "high risk activity" lol I would guess any life insurance policy would require autopsy results (if performed) prior to payoff. just my thoughts
i think the autopsy reports have been done but the wife is holdig them from being released to the public due to the fact the reporters are camping in her front yard.
His widow filed an injunction to block the release of the autopsy results “Should the autopsy report be released now,” reads the injunction request, “Lyndie Irons and her newborn child would suffer immediate and irrevocable harm in that the branding value would be greatly diminished as a result of the intense news frenzy.” Damage to the brand probably wouldn't occur if cause of death was natural causes/dengue would it ? Would a life insurance policy pay off if death was cause by an accidental overdose ?
my friends cousin died in a small plane crash in florida last month and all the investigators and news people wanted to know was who was flying the plane because they thought it would have made a difference. It didn't, it brought more sadness and grief to the family. So is finding out how he died going to change anything? it's not going to bring him back to life so why do scummy reporters want to make a buck off tarnishing his legendary name?
It's sad that such a great surfer had to die so young and leave behind a wife and unborn child. For the sake of the family and surfing, I hope all the rumors are false. This latest news does not bode well, however. It seems kind of crass to, on the one hand, set up a donation fund for the family, while on the other hand using legal maneuvers to delay the results of the autopsy to protect financial interests from facts that might diminish those interests. Maybe if the autopsy results show that he was hopped up on goofballs when he died the public might be kind of disgusted and no longer consider him as much a legend or want to buy products that get pimped with his name. That must be the "damage to the brand" his wife and other interested parties are worried about. Since AI was such a public figure, it's inevitable that the facts will be made public. Filing an injunction to delay such disclosure isn't going to make it go away.
Even tho I three with skegleg ,I hope Andys kid doesn't grow up and read this thread one day, and see how avbunch of people argued about if him and his widowed mom deserve charity from the surfing community .
