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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @11:31AM
Found his website, so many years ago, while trying to learn C++, was then taken in by the miscellanea on warplife, such as on ethics and especially 'the strange pill'. The website itself epitomizes the best of what the WWW was, before it turned to whatever-it-has-become, so I thought of it as a kind of living link to the past. It has now, in a sense, been cut? That is upsetting, and feels like needlessly soon.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Tuesday March 26 2019, @01:24PM
I don't know if anything could have been changed by MDC or anyone else to improve things. He was chaotic in both helpful and unhelpful ways both to himself and others - he could be clear-thinking and lucid in some areas, and differently sane in others - I'm fairly sure the decisions he made made sense to him at the time, even if not to others. If there is an afterlife of any sorts (and I sure hope there isn't, Roko's Basilisk and similar things aside), then I hope whatever is left of MDC in whatever afterlife there may or may not be is at peace.
There are many people struggling with the effects of mental illness on their lives. Please spare a thought for them. A single kind act or acknowledgement of their humanity can be a lifesaver.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by inertnet on Tuesday March 26 2019, @01:29PM
One of the most interesting people I have met online. I really liked him for being funny, odd and intelligent.
Rest in peace.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Codesmith on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:00PM
Well shit.
Odd and off-the-wall, but generally worth reading. The world's a little less interesting now.
Pro utilitate hominum.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 26 2019, @03:06PM (1 child)
I always think of MDC as Michael Crawford.
Fraaaaaank!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlwQVElQcIk [youtube.com]
Good show.
Good man.
Rest. in. peace.
and stay crazy... your kind of crazy was nice and respectful. The world needed more of you and less of assholes.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 26 2019, @03:20PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upaXfd6INpI [youtube.com]
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:32PM (1 child)
Well poop. Every community needs a few colorful yet eccentric characters and MBC certainly was that. We are all diminished by his passing.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:45PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RedIsNotGreen on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:25PM
Though we never spoke directly, I'll miss you.
(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.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:49PM (2 children)
"Life will be a very great deal less weird without you!"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by choose another one on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:04PM (1 child)
Yep, yours is the best post I want to stick a reply on, that was my feeling exactly.
Never met MDC, never knew him, interacted with him here through a handful of comments and replies, read far more of his comments and posts, often knowing the user before even looking at the user ID. To me he was just a bit weird, that's all. Maybe subconsciously I cut him more slack because I have two kids with mental illness / disabilities, my world is already weird and I am frequently reminded that neurotypical is just the typical human being, nowhere near all of us.
But here's the thing: if I did that I did it because I already knew of him and of his mental health issues from way before this site existed. Discussing physical health issues is (relatively) easy, discussing mental health issues of others (in my case, my kids) is much harder, putting your own mental health issues out there on the internet under your real name must be harder still. Maybe, just maybe, his condition made it easier, but I don't think so, I've seen in my kids how difficult it can be to talk even in private, in confidence, to a professional about this stuff. I think what he did took guts, more than I have and more than many of us here who post from behind pseudonyms, I respect him for that.
A weird but vibrant part of life's rich tapestry just left us, I hope he is free now from the demons that made it too hard to stay with us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:35AM
Crazy or not, that is why so many of us, love or hate him, read, replied to, or drew lines in the sand with him. He often provided insights, anecdotes, or simply life stories that made all of our lives a little more interesting. The OG internet just died a little more today.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:17PM
Maybe I missed it. But did anyone actually confirm his passing? In his last posting he said that his only hope is the paramedics getting to him in time, did he call the paramedics or was this just a "if someone cares they will call for me"? I might be understanding what he said incorrectly.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fritsd on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:33PM
Oh blimey.
R.I.P. MDC.
I felt so sorry for him, when he wrote that he was homeless and was sick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:14PM
As an autistic nerd, I now see the sign from his more recent comments here, but only in hindsight. His Caltech jive got on my nerve, but now I see that was a sign of his isolation and alienation.
Editors:
Tell us of his funeral, if you can, so that I can at least send some flowers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Snow on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:56PM
I'm sorry things had to end like that, Mike. I'll miss you.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:56PM
Many years ago I posted about my depression on kuro5hin and MDC was one of the few who took it seriously and gave good advice. After kuro5hin went to hell I lost track of him until recently when I saw that he posted here. May he rest in peace.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @11:00PM (1 child)
I say it like that that's a bad thing.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:19AM
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday March 26 2019, @11:02PM
It's a tragedy that people like our very own MDC find their lives shortened so. Many fine tributes have already been left here, but MDC was a good guy, and a courageous fighter. Despite the obstacles life put in his way, his human spirit shone through.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:11AM (12 children)
It takes some courage to kill oneself. MDC must have had some somewhere. I know this for a fact because I've been borderline suicidal at times for the last ten years but never found the courage in me to actually carry it out. As a result, I am forced to continue to endure the miseries of life. Anti-psychotic drugs help keep me stable, but if I ever stop taking them perhaps I finally will find myself in the proper mood to do what needs to be done.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:45AM
Please *stay* courageous by staying alive. The fact you have the strength to tell us this makes me want to say: "Hang in there. For whatever reason, or none at all, the world is richer with you."
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:13AM (9 children)
It doesn't really take all that much courage if it's a response to pain. After a certain point, death is simply preferable. I wish he hadn't hit his.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:36PM (2 children)
I passed that point a while back. I'm only here now for the shits and giggles rub outs and manhwa.
Just don't say "get some help". The idea of help around here involves forced jail time and serious life changing effects relating to forced incarceration.
Just another brick in the wall
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday March 28 2019, @01:33AM
Shits and giggles are as good a reason as any for continued existence. Just remember, if you've already passed that point you mentioned, you no longer need to live up to other people's flawed expectations. You can prioritize the things that do entertain or please you, one day at a time.
Please stick around. We'll be glad if you do.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 01 2019, @06:33PM
Yes, I said it below. The shits and giggles are what most of us are here for. And getting that help when you need it, bad parts aside, will get you to more shits and giggles later if you only believe.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday April 05 2019, @01:08AM (5 children)
I almost flamed you to a crisp for this several days ago, but I closed my browser and went to bed instead.
Glad I did, I don't think you meant anything ill here.
But it's an ignorant comment.
Many people attempt suicide more than once before succeeding. And for someone that's lived through the humiliating experience of attempting suicide and being returned, involuntarily, to the respawn point, minus some deeply missed skills and/or abilities, or simply for someone that's watched someone else endure an injury which is debilitating but not fatal, there is courage involved in even attempting it. Because you expect to fail. You expect to wake up in a few hours or days, in a hospital, in just as much pain as ever, with additional debt, additional humiliation, and additional social stigma.
No, pain alone cannot possibly explain MDCs absence.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 05 2019, @01:42AM (4 children)
See, I don't buy that. Lead to the brain has an extremely low failure rate and is readily available to pretty much anyone, so if you choose something less certain as your method it tells me you weren't fully committed to the idea.
Maybe, maybe not. I wasn't in his head, so I genuinely don't know. I do know he was explicitly talking about pain days before his death. Something about feeling like he was being electrocuted repeatedly.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday April 05 2019, @09:31AM (3 children)
I don't know the rate precisely, but the consequences are pretty horrible. Imagine waking up afterwards, in a hospital bed, missing half your face but still very much alive.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 05 2019, @11:36AM (2 children)
Knew a guy who managed to fail because he was very, very drunk and just blew his jaw to shit. That's very much not the norm though. It's pretty difficult to miss your brain at point blank range, even for a novice. All you really need to do is make sure you're sober, aim deliberately, and use a .38 or larger caliber and success is all but assured.
I'm not saying this out of some macabre fascination or scorn, by the way. It's something that I put a lot of thought into at one time and I genuinely do not get why anyone serious about suicide would use a more painful or unpleasant method that carried a much higher risk of failure, so I assume they were not serious about it if they do.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday April 06 2019, @12:30AM (1 child)
While carrying out the most desperate action possible.
The very fact that you're trying to do it strongly suggests that, whether sober or not, you're not exactly calm and collected.
Pain can be just as disorienting as drugs or alcohol, all by itself, plus many people will use those things to alleviate the pain.
I expect that the vast majority of people would be shaky as hell when attempting this.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 06 2019, @01:46AM
Experience major depression sometime. That's precisely what you are. Living in depression is the sanest and most clear-headed you will ever be. You see life so much more clearly and you can't distract yourself away from it like normal people do. Which is why it's such a miserable thing to experience.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 01 2019, @06:29PM
It takes courage to stay alive, sometimes, too, or at least energy.
Please don't stop taking your meds, as I have yet to meet anyone who took their own life that didn't leave behind people miserably asking, "why?" Please continue to endure for their sake, and if you're sure you can't endure anymore (or are sure that there's nobody left) please tell someone - ANYONE - plainly anyway because maybe there is still help.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:30AM (1 child)
Drüben hinter’m Dorfe
Steht ein Leiermann,
Und mit starren Fingern
Dreht er was er kann.
Barfuss auf dem Eise
Schwankt er hin und her;
Und sein kleiner Teller
Bleibt ihm immer leer.
Keiner mag ihn hören,
Keiner sieht ihn an;
Und die Hunde knurren
Um den alten Mann.
Und er lässt es gehen
Alles, wie es will,
Dreht, und seine Leier
Steht ihm nimmer still.
Wunderlicher Alter,
Soll ich mit dir gehen?
Willst zu meinen Liedern
Deine Leier drehn?
Schubert - Der Leiermann - Thomas Quasthoff / Daniel Barenboim [youtube.com]
Rest in peace.
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:40PM
I've paid my dues
Time after time.
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime.
And bad mistakes‒
I've made a few.
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I've come through.
And I need to go on and on, and on, and on.
We are the champions, my friends.
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world.
I've taken my bows,
And my curtain calls.
You brought me fame and fortune, and everything that goes with it.
I thank you all.
But it's been no bed of roses,
No pleasure cruise.
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race,
And I ain't gonna lose.
And I need just go on and on, and on, and on.
We are the champions, my friends.
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:38AM
May you find the peace you deserve, where ever it is you are now. You will be missed.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:02AM
I didn't always agree with what he would say, though sometimes I felt he was spot on, but the one thing I always did was respect that he spoke his mind without censoring, sugar coating, or making it "PC" in any way.
Rest in Peace Mr. Crawford. We will miss you.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mrpg on Wednesday March 27 2019, @07:12AM
Sad. Bye. You are no longer suffering.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @08:18AM
http://www.myniceprofile.com/funny-5913.html [myniceprofile.com]
We never appreciate what we have until it is gone.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @08:29AM
But he had a sense of humor. While looking for a quotation to capture the feeling, I came across this:
"Yes, yes! Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life! Probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry!" - Zathras, Babylon 5
I think that captures just a little of MDC's sense of humor. While his death is sad, I hope it relieved him of his burdens, which he put so much effort to carry.
The quote I was looking for was:
"G'Quan wrote, "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender."" - G'Kar, Babylon 5
MDC wanted to leave the world a better place than how he found it. If this topic is evidence, I think it is safe to say he succeeded. His flesh maybe dead, but his hope remains. Your Friend,
- JCD
(Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:09PM
Didn't know him as well as many of you apparently did, didn't know much of his past and didn't interact with him much (mostly because I don't post a ton in general)...but I always did enjoy reading his posts. He reminded me of a friend I knew in highschool, who was both the most brilliant and most insane person I have ever had the good fortune of meeting. Both he and MDC struck me as great men stuck in terrible situations. Seems he did a lot of great things, many I hadn't known until now, and I can't help but wonder if it was because of his demons or in spite of them. It's truly a shame that we lack both the interest and the science to answer even that basic question.
I was really hoping that title was some kind of joke, some other MDC...I barely knew the guy, but I will certainly miss seeing his name around here...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @07:43PM
fucking HELL.
MDC. I always wanted to meet you in person. To make a meal for or with you, to sit by a river with a fire, to talk tech and society and mental states and the stars. I always tried to post thankfully to you here. I posted asking you to never change so you would know that we loved you and all your eccentricities. I'm so sorry we never physically met, that I never hugged you and told you what you meant to me, a stranger reading your courageous, and sometimes outrageous, words.
fuck.
FUCK.
FUCK.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by acid andy on Wednesday March 27 2019, @11:51PM
I'm very late to reply to this--saw it when it was first posted but didn't have the chance to reply.
One of my first thoughts was that humanity has failed--both on SoylentNews and the wider world. Mike needed and deserved help and a lot of the time it wasn't available when he asked for it. At other times he received abuse. He was a very likeable and incredibly honest and open Soylentil. I really admire someone who's not afraid to be themselves so openly.
Fuck, his last two journal entries were pretty clear warnings. All I did was ask him if he was OK. I don't know whether I could've helped if I'd said more. It sounds like others did at least try to help him. I think one reason I hesitated is I almost invariably found it very difficult to manage a coherent discussion with him. He'd pick up one small strand of what I'd post and wander onto something unrelated. I guess that was how his brain was wired, at least at times.
Another mistake I think many of us made was because of the constant strife and drama in his life, expressed through his journal, it was easy to develop a false sense that he was somehow resilient to all the drama and coping well with it. It's awful to think I was desensitized to his posts. Sometimes it was hard to tell if he was joking / exaggerating for effect as well.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's had thoughts like this--not wanting people to feel bad, just wanting to know some people wanted to help him. If this had just been a page of brief farewells with a line or two saying what a good guy he was, as it maybe started out, I'd be left feeling it was too little too late. That sort of stuff is really for the people left behind, I think. Hey, it all is, unless he can perceive it, which I seriously doubt.
R.I.P., Mike.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Common Joe on Thursday March 28 2019, @01:23AM
I'm late to the party, but I came here to say Rest In Peace.
I cannot put into words more eloquently what others here have already said, so I won't try.
Often insightful, highly intelligent, and brutally honest. He'll be missed by me.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by LAV8.ORg on Thursday March 28 2019, @09:48AM
His writing projected such a unique voice, I could usually tell a post was MDC in a few beats. I enjoyed his consistently fresh and frequently verbose take. Michael David Crawford, you'll be missed.
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Thursday March 28 2019, @06:17PM
You were a good man. Our interactions were always pleasant, and generally left me scratching my head and smiling. Your unique look at life and your undeniably unique situation made you an asset in all of our lives.
You will be missed.
I wish you safe travels, and I can only hope that the ailments that plagued you in this life have been left behind.
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 3, Informative) by Orion Blastar on Thursday March 28 2019, @06:22PM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488164 [ycombinator.com]
https://www.reddit.com/r/kuro5hit/comments/b56f8e/mdc_has_passed_away/ [reddit.com]
https://kr5ddit.com/post/4083/mdc-is-dead-live-from-facebook [kr5ddit.com]
MIke's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/repeatiblehairstyle [facebook.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darnkitten on Thursday March 28 2019, @11:47PM
Just read about this-I am sad now.
I haven't been on for a few months, except to lurk, as life has taken up the mental energy I needed to read through the Argumentation and to post in a thoughtful manner; but MDC's Journals were the one thing I always read. I only directly communicated with him a couple of times, but greatly appreciated his contributions and his struggles; and feel as if I have lost someone significant.
Some persons in my life struggle with mental illnesses of varying sorts, and I used the example of Michael David Crawford as encouragement for them when things got bad.
I am sorry he is gone, but also sorry he suffered enough that he had to go.
I am sorry I didn't help when I could have, and couldn't help when it was most needed.
I am sorry the system and society failed him, and also sorry that he is just another example of that failure.
Thanks to those memorializing him. It will be comforting to see the quotes and to know that his works will not vanish from the face of the net.
MDC: May the Gods, Whoever or Whatever They Be, look kindly upon ye, and may you pass into folklore and never be forgotten..
(Score: 1) by RickSanchez on Friday March 29 2019, @04:53AM (1 child)
Here is one of his songs compiled by T'Dillo:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GQQCKiLxaYvq/ [bitchute.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @08:09PM
thanks
(Score: 2) by Lester on Monday April 01 2019, @01:50PM
In internet, you have always to take what people show about themselves with a grain of salt. I never met him personally, for me was just a nickname in kuro5hin, and later I found him in soylentnews. Sometimes I clicked links but I really didn't investigate much who was int real life.
What I thought about the person behind the nick?
I thought he was a person with a mental illness. His posts about his condition were really interesting. They shed light on the feelings and the daily (and nightly) fight of people with his metal illness and they arose empathy towards him and people with his problems. Some of his comments showed a subtle and naughty sens of humor. Other comments were a little paranoid from my point of view. And some were... well... weird.
Another kind of comments were about his professional career. My idea was that he had been one of those teenagers who were good at computers and never did anything professionally. Now, as adult, he had the fantasy that he was very good and was creating fantasy projects, website, articles etc, expecting his opportunity. My point of view was that when he wrote about his projects, new jobs etc his mental illness was in its peak, and when he wrote about his illness he was following a treatment had an improvement in his health.
I'm surprised at the fact that he got a degree in Caltech, that he worked for Apple. I'm happy to see that he really did some accomplishment in his life, that not all was a fantasy. On the other hand, it is sad to see a talent destroyed by illness.
World has a shortage good persons and an overflow of bastards, you, MDC, looked one of the former.
R.I.P.
Sorry. You looked a nice and honest person fighting bravely against your deamons.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @02:58PM
I didn't know him personally but I had a dream of meeting him whenever I could. This is such a loss. I don't believe in after-life, but if you are reading it... I hope you are fine and finding peace and may god bless you.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 01 2019, @04:08PM (7 children)
Been more than a little jammed up lately. The news saddens me.
He replied to a post of mine and linked to his entry of the 19th and ended it with "wouldn't you agree?" I'd read it, was trying to digest it, and was thinking about how to reply when I lost the thread to reply to. I suppose I'll have to member up to see if I can track it down; I know it had to be in the range between the 19th and the 26th. Now I want to go back and pick it up to see if there was a clue I should have taken.
This becomes the second person in about three weeks that I knew (not very well, but knew of) who apparently took their own life. Damn.
Cue R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts [youtube.com].
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 01 2019, @06:22PM
Found it, on the 14th, actually. I can now take that as the last time we interacted. It was as confusing as I recalled.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday April 02 2019, @12:16AM (5 children)
Truly sad to hear this. Are there any more details somewhere? I can't seem to find any at the moment.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday April 03 2019, @02:37PM (4 children)
I found this [dignitymemorial.com] entry online. He was currently somewhere around Vancouver I thought, perhaps a relative of his was based in Spokane. Half thought about calling the funeral home for details (Ball & Dodd, a place I remember when I lived in Spokane).
Aside from what we find here in this thread, though, I haven't found anything online and I've looked.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday April 03 2019, @10:17PM (3 children)
Spokane is quite a ways from Vancouver, or Portland.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday April 04 2019, @02:46PM (2 children)
True. What I thought, as well, but I didn't really know him well either. I do gather from Googling that he bounced around Washington state a bit too. I know he had mentioned siblings previously so it's my assuming at work.
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday April 05 2019, @01:00AM (1 child)
I called the funeral home in Spokane. They've never heard of him.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday April 05 2019, @03:01PM
Very interesting. I thought of doing that myself but didn't (maybe I said that already). Hmm....
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(Score: 2) by Hyper on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:55PM
We will miss you