If you want to know...

...why I read the obituaries in the New York Times religiously, check out the one today about a boxer named Johnny Tapia. Just as the tattoo on his belly, "Mi vida loca," said, he led a crazy life. Here's the first paragraph: 

Johnny Tapia, a prizefighter who won world titles in three weight classes in a chaotic life that included jail, struggles with mental illness, suicide attempts and five times being declared clinically dead as a result of drug overdoses, was found dead at his home in Albuquerque on Sunday. He was 45.