Graham Thorpe. (AFP Photos) Former English cricket Graham Thorpe, 55, died in August last year after being hit by train at ESHER station. His death came shortly after telling her wife that she wanted to end her life, go to Switzerland, after a period of fighting for mental health, which began after the loss of his coach of English bats in 2022, heard investigation with Surrey Coroner’s Court.His widow, Amanda Thorpe, revealed the desperate last weeks of her life. “He told me that he didn’t want to be here anymore,” she said in The Times. “He asked me to help him end his life. He said he wanted to go to Switzerland.”Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe!Thorpe’s descending spiral began after a controversial incident during the Ashes Tour in Australia. There was a video that showed him that smoking a cigar inside against local laws. This led to his release from England coaching staff, which his family believes was a turning point in his mental state.“He returned from a tour of Australia in a terrible state,” Mrs. Thorpe explained. She added that his release was particularly difficult. “After being released after it – I think it was predictable, it would be really difficult for him,” Mrs. Thorpe said. “If he wasn’t on this tour, then he wouldn’t be released and that was what he couldn’t deal with.”Thorpe previously attempted suicide in 2022 and spent three weeks unconscious in a hospital.Although Thorpe was offered a coaching role with the Afghan national team, he was too good to take a position. “He tried to do it, but it was spirally spiral. He signed a contract and I had to tell them it was too good to do this job,” she said.His condition deteriorated in June 2024, while Mrs. Thorpe described him as “no interest in food” and wanted to “hide, completely isolated, in real crisis and despair”.Corner assistant Jonathan Stevens acknowledged the difficult situation of the family during the ongoing investigation to end on Friday. The tragic end came when Mrs. Thorpe found out that her husband had left home without her dog, and later received devastating news from Geoff Thorpe, Graham’s father, simply said, “It’s gone.”Thorpe had a famous cricket career, scored 16 hundreds for England and represented his country 182 times. During the fifth test between England and India will be honored 1 August, which would be his 56th birthday.
