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Mike Crawford Is Dead, Contributed to Mac System 7.5.X and Activist
Some of you might know him on the west coast. He worked for Apple fixing/debugging System 7.5.X and attended Cal Tech. He was an activist for the mentally ill and homeless. He was openly bisexual and open about his schizoaffective disorder. His Facebook page.
I had helped him with his project Soggy Jobs which is unfinished. It was his project he needed a business model for.
He was on CNN about the taking away of tax credit from software engineers.
He was a member here at Hacker News.
He had serious physical illnesses that made him suffer and he took his own life.
I was an online friend of his, and I too suffer from schizoaffective disorder.
His wish was not to be forgotten to be remembered through his works. To at least have a Wikipedia article written on him or some other Wiki. Wikipedia named him non-notable about ten years ago. But if you met him, he'd always show you respect and even if he disagreed with you he was nice about it.
takyon: Here is MDC's last post on Warp Life, and Last Will And Testament. User page. Twitter.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by linkdude64 on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:35PM (1 child)
I wish I had fucking put two and two together on this. No, there's probably nothing I could've done or said, but the homelessness, the cries for help about finding work and a home (a place in the world)...I should've had a little more empathy. So fucking regrettable. Everyone is an individual, but few are willing or able to consistently express their individuality like he did.
If anybody is able to log his facebook wall to archive.org and post the links here so those without non-shadow profiles can see them, it would be much appreciated. I am sure many a story has been posted there.
Are there family members left to organize a funeral? Is there a GoFundMe? Could someone more familiar with him or his relatives maybe put one together?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by RS3 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:03PM
> I wish I had fscking put two and two together on this.
Please don't beat yourself up for this horrible thing. We all feel this way. I never detected any self-harm desires in what I read here and there. He had a bunch of problems, but seemed to be (ever) seeking help for them. He survived so many ups and downs it seemed that he was just going through another sequence. Just a week ago he wrote about an ER visit, and not getting needed treatment. I know all too well what he went through and how badly broken our "healthcare" system is in the US. Like Mike mentioned, they have respirators and "iron lungs" but would not put him in one, and I don't understand why not. Something has horribly changed in healthcare, and I can't quite figure out what or why. It's like they'll try one thing, when there are 30 things to try, and when the one thing fails, the trail goes cold. You end up doing your own research and spending days and days trying to find someone who cares and will help. But then there's always something to stop that- no available appointments for 2 months, or "out of network", or "we won't treat that condition until you get the other ones fixed" but you can't get them fixed until someone treats the other one. It's a horrific mess, and people are sick, getting sicker, costing more and more $, and dying unnecessarily. And the whole thing is getting worse and worse, and any/all of us are in jeopardy.