Glee star Naya Rivera is missing..

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Just saw this. How sad is this?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53345696

Speculation would be, imo, very distasteful at this point.
Her poor son, how incredibly sad.

I know the actors who played Finn and Puck have passed away but is there anyone else?

This is awful, I feel sick. I really hope she's found safe and well. Her poor boy

@Needtobepositive

I know the actors who played Finn and Puck have passed away but is there anyone else?

No, I am not aware of anyone else.

God, this is awful. I personally don’t believe she’ll be found alive...

Her poor boy must have been very scared.

I don't think it's helpful to speculate the cause of death.

Current water temperature is about the same as an average UK indoor swimming pool, so I wouldn't have thought that cold water shock would be likely.

Not suicide either, surely she wouldn't do it in that way and leave her DS alone in a boat?

I suppose they'll have specially trained officers/social workers questioning her DS to see if he can tell them anything, such as whether he had actually been in the water that time himself, or if she could have fallen in. But then you'd think she'd be able to get herself out, or at least summon help from someone else on the lake if it was a popular leisure spot.

However, the wikipedia page lists several drownings, many of them in summer. Safety information about open water swimming always mentions cold water, risk of entanglement and underwater currents as risk factors.

Also her life jacket was found on the boat still...if she got in the water why wasnt she wearing it?!

twitter.com/NayaRivera/status/1234586154059485184/photo/1

This her on Twitter.Doesnt look good.

Her poor little boy.

It could be that she fell in and somehow got into difficulties in the water and didn't resurface. Drowning yourself is an uncommon way to commit suicide I would have thought although I see her poor son has said that she jumped in. It looks like a large lake to have to search.

It looks like quite a small boat - I thought maybe she was jumping in and he was going to jump off the boat and she was going to catch him?

Thank goodness he was wearing a life jacket and that he's safe. That poor woman and her family.

Sowww.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8505089/Naya-Rivera-missing-presumed-dead-four-year-old-son-boat.html

Sorry dm link

Also her life jacket was found on the boat still...if she got in the water why wasnt she wearing it?!

If she was going for a swim she probably took it off. I wear a life jacket when sailing, but not if we stop to go swimming.

Awful :( so relieved her little boy was safe, at that age it could so easily have ended tragically for him.

It's awful.

It seems to vary between him seeing her jump in & that they were both in the water & he was the only one who got out.

Poor kid.

Really sad story. Doesn't feel like it's going to have a happy end

On a side note has anyone read a book called The Survivors Club? It talks about people who have survived natural disasters, terror attacks and such things, and talks about despite being ordinary people with no training, the qualities they have in common which allow them to think logically where others would panic and survive. A fascinating book. Anyway, apparently drowning yourself is supposed to be one of the most "difficult " ways to commit suicide (unless of course you're intoxicated) as despite what our brain wants to do our bodies will fight it automatically.

I very much doubt it would be suicide. Sadly people do commit suicide, but I very much doubt she would leave her 4 year old in such a potentially dangerous situation or expect him to watch it happen. There are many other ways that would involve him at all.

I did think of my friend who very nearly drowned once. She put her little one back on the boat and then tried to climb in herself, but slipped on the ladder and banged her head on the side of the boat. Her husband pulled her out, but it would have ended very badly if he hadn't been there to help her.

I saw a lot of discussion too about the weather being dangerous and how people in the past have drowned there when there have been high winds. Also possible that the weather quickly changed, she managed to get him back onto the boat, but couldn't manage to get herself out, or was swept away.

Very, very sad.

I'm so so sad for that poor little boy, waiting for mummy to re-appear

@BarbedBloom I think the two scenarios you've described are very likely, accidents around water and boats are very common and all can take for one to happen is a slip or a fluke event.

According to an article I read there is no swimming from boats allowed on that particular lake as it is notorious for having strong currents, swimming is only allowed around the shoreline and only out to a specific distance.

I have been following this today and it's awful, her poor little boy.
Looking at her twitter, some of her posts look a little worrying.

Absolutely awful. Poor woman, poor little boy. Just horrific imagining the fear she was feeling for her little boy if she was struggling etc. Doesn’t bare thinking about

The sheriffs department are treating it as an accident, her son has apparently said they were both swimming and he got back in the boat but she didn't