Montreal boxer Eddy Nolan ends life with government injection

 

Eddy Nolan, a much-loved janitor at Roslyn School who also starred as a boxer from the Shamrock Boxing Club at Wellington and Shearer in Point St. Charles for a few years in his youth,  died at the age of 67 of government lethal injection Friday at about 2 pm.

“I just want to thank everyone for the kindness and love shown to me over the years. Bye for now. This is my last post,” he wrote in a social media post.

Nolan received much media attention for a period about two decades back when he raised considerable amounts of cash for the fight against cancer by participating in Terry Fox runs. 

He would run alongside people like media scientist Joe Schwarz and then go alone to smoke a cigarette, or a enjoy the rush of a white powder inhalable.

Nolan became sensitized to cancer after his sister died of the dread disease. He feared it ran in his family. He was right, as it also claimed one of his brothers. Cancer then came to Eddy himself and he ultimately he opted to die of lethal injection in a government mandated program after his body was ravaged by chemotherapy.

Coolopolis does not endorse government programs to end lives but we try not to judge others who make decisions for their own lives.

Unlike previous Roslyn School janitors who lived in an apartment in the basement of the school, Nolan inhabited a nice house in the West Island. 

Nolan grew up in Point St. Charles during a wild time when there were bars on every corner, tough guys abound and wild packs of dogs roaming the streets. 

His father was a main character behind the Shamrock Boxing Club and Eddy won some impressive bouts from the mid-1970s to about 1980. 

His brothers included Patrick, Timmy, Tommy and Mickey, plus he had some sisters whose names don't immediately come to mind. Eddy Nolan had no children.