Final Photos Taken of Celebrities Before They Died

By Ryan Tofil April 12, 2018 at 7:49am

Chris Benoit

Taken at the Dr.’s office on June 22, 2007. After the appointment, Benoit would kill his wife and son, then take his own life. Benoit was a star in World Wrestling Entertainment, and was recognized as one of the only performers who would allow other wrestlers to hit him in the back of the head with steel chairs. Repeated untreated concussions could have been the reason for his violent turn, doctors observed that Benoit’s 40-year-old brain resembled that of an 85-year-old Alzheimer’s patient’s at the time of death.

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Ryan Tofil

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Ryan Tofil lived all of his life in Western New York before graduating college and moving to Arizona in 2014 to work for the nonprofit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

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Ryan Tofil's experience on The Western Journal goes back to 2014 when he was an intern for the non-profit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. These websites eventually combined and became one of the most popular lifestyle websites in the world, at one point being ranked inside the top 200 websites in America by Alexa.com. Liftable.com lives on today as a section of The Western Journal. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

Outside of work, Ryan loves to play chess, sports, and video games; usually while smoking a cigar. He is a proud bird-owner and aquarium aficionado, and always jokes about needing concealed carry permits for his fists, despite only having been in one fight in his life and losing quite badly. His claim to fame is having possibly been the worst NCAA baseball player in the country, riding the bench for a DIII team that went 3-31. He loved every second of it.

Birthplace

Western New York

Education

A.S., Communication, Jamestown Community College

Location

Anthem, Arizona

Languages Spoken

English, barely. Even worse at Spanish.

Topics of Expertise

Video Games, Sports, Romance, Chess, E-Commerce, Okay not Romance