What are your thoughts on athletes dying from sports concussions & others donating their brains for research?

This is a disturbing story for me because of serious concussions my family & I have received from various things including sports. This study shouldn't be just about pro-athletes... What about our kids out there playing NOW? Is that why there's changes in them? Let's hear your SERIOUS INPUT ONLY!! Because this is NO JOKING MATTER!

An article states, "that sixteen American athletes, including six former NFL players, have agreed to donate their brains to a program that will study the long-term effects of concussions, a founder of an organization running it said on Wednesday.

"Our goal is for people to start taking concussions seriously," said Chris Nowinski, a former pro wrestler and an American football player at Harvard. "That means getting off the field when they receive them and finding ways to prevent them."

Among former NFL players who have agreed to donate their brains after their deaths are Ted Johnson, Frank Wycheck, Isaiah Kacyvenski and Ben Lynch. Also participating are Noah Welch, who played in the NHL for the Florida Panthers last season, and Cindy Parlow, a former U.S. women's football international.

"I shouldn't have to prove to anybody that there's something wrong with me," Johnson, a former New England Patriots linebacker, told The New York Times.

The 35-year-old's neurologist has pointed to Johnson's multiple concussions from 2002-05 as a cause of his permanent and degenerative problems with memory and depression.

"I'm not being vindictive. I'm not trying to reach up from the grave and get the NFL," Johnson added. "But any doctor who doesn't connect concussions with long-term effects should be ashamed of themselves."

The center is expected to announce on Thursday that former Houston Oilers linebacker John Grimsley was the fifth deceased NFL player found to have brain damage commonly associated with boxers, according to the Times. Andre Waters, Mike Webster, Terry Long and Justin Strzelczyk were the first four.

Grimsley died in February of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in February that police ruled an accident.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8600024?MSNHPHC...