Highlands Ranch Boy Collpases and Dies After Running

In the blog “Highlands Ranch sophomore dies after collapsing during run” by Daniel Petty, and The Denver Post, it states that a sophomore from Highlands Ranch Highschool was running and just collapsed when running in a sponsored cross country run along the Highline Canal on Wednesday September 30th. Spectators that called 911 say that he died on the way to the hospital. I thought possibly he might have had some sort of cardiac arrest. But then that sparked another thought, if he was a cross country athlete, he must have been in good shape. Usually cardiac arrest happens to not in shape people but then if he wasn’t not in shape, then maybe there must have been something wrong in his heart that doesn’t have to do with possibly pushing himself too hard in the run? I think that doctors should perform another autopsy on his heart and see what the results will be because doctors said the results were in conclusive. Maybe there was something wrong with it, maybe there was some defect or that just he really did push himself too hard. It’s really amazing how you can do something as simple as just running and have your heart give out and die. This makes me think about how I really value my life and how life is such a fragile thing in the world.