An autopsy Thursday confirmed Seau died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, the Medical Examiner’s Office said. The medical examiner is awaiting the family’s decision regarding whether to donate Seau’s brain to researchers studying repetitive head injuries, authorities said. The 43-year-old NFL star was found Wednesday a bedroom in his beachfront home that sits on the south end of The Strand in Oceanside. He was found by his girlfriend in a bedroom of his beachfront house Wednesday morning, and a handgun was found near the body, the police said. Police said no suicide note was found and they didn't immediately know who the gun was registered to. UPDATE: I was just listening to Chris Berman's response to Seau's death : I was just listening to Chris Berman's response to Seau's death in which he said 
 
 
 
 
 
 No one will ever know what happened on the football field that may have caused what happened today. 's best linebackers over a 20-year career with the San Diego Chargers, the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots, died of a gunshot wound to the chest Wednesday at his home in Oceanside, Calif. Seau is not known to have been a plaintiff in the concussion litigation.
– The medical examiner in San Diego confirmed today that Junior Seau committed suicide with a gunshot to the chest, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. The family has not decided yet whether to donate his brain to researchers to see if he suffered damage from football. Seau's former wife told the AP that he sustained concussions as a player, but she didn't know whether they contributed to his death. The suicide, though, is enough for Ta-Nehisi Coates to call it quits as a longtime football fan. "I'm not here to dictate other people's morality," he writes in the Atlantic. "I'm certainly not here to call for banning of the risky activities of consenting adults." But he says it's clear that football isn't ready to confront what's happening to its players. "I'm out." (Click to read another writer's view that this could become a common refrain.)