After a young man’s death, a family sheds the urge to second-guess
Relatives and friends of those who kill themselves are left to endlessly retrace the last hours and days and weeks, looking for clues they may have missed.
They should have been getting ready to head down to Soldier Field. The Bears and Panthers would kick off the preseason at 7:30 and Chan Stowell, 21, and his dad, Channing, would take their usual seats among tens of thousands of others — all of them eager to flush the memories of the previous year’s humiliations.
It was 5 p.m. and it was a hot day — it felt like almost 90 outside and the rain had just stopped
