25 Million Reasons Why He Should Be Alive?

Terrell Owens of the Dallas Cowboys is in the midst of another fiasco. No big surprise. He took too many painkillers and his publicist had to call 911. Either he did it on purpose, trying to kill himself, or it was an accident. Whatever, we may never know. The distrubing thing for me when reading about this was what Owens' publicist, Kim Etheredge, said when explaining why Owens would never kill himself:

"Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive."

She is referring to his recent $25 million contract with the Cowboys. Is this for real? I'm sorry, but I find that a bit disturbing. I understand she probably didn't mean for it to come off the way I'm taking it, and I'm sorry to say it in the context of what could be a terrible moment in someone's life, but if those were my 25 million reasons for living, I would probably want to kill myself.

If you think about it, she probably thought he tried to kill himself in the first place. She walks into a room, sees him all messed up with an empty bottle of painkillers next to him. I doubt the first thing that went through her mind was, "Oh, T.O. You are a feisty one. You've gone and accidentally taken too many pills again." So she calls 911 and now she's probably trying to sound convincingly supportive of her client. Whatever. It just disgusts me that she would be thinking of that when coming up with reasons for someone to be alive. And I realize it's unfair of me to make a judgment call like this, but for pete's sake, she's a publicist and should know better.

Owens denies he tried to hill himself