Diogo Jota, Jesus and dealing with grief

Graeme Shanks  |  Comment
Date posted:  11 Jul 2025
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Diogo Jota, Jesus and dealing with grief

Diogo Jota. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Approximately 150,000 people die each day worldwide. Death really is all around us, and yet every now and again there is a death that grips the world. That proved to be the case with former Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota who died recently in a sudden crash crash at the age of 28 along with his younger brother.

A talented footballer. A family man. An infectious personality. A role model. Here was a young man with his whole life ahead of him taken in his prime. Everything about his death was tragic. There was a moving tribute from Jota’s Portuguese teammate Christian Ronaldo who summed up the feelings of many when he simply posted on X, "It doesn’t make sense."

So how do we go about making sense of tragic deaths like this?

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