Was wandering through some old posts looking for something the other day, and ended up stumbling over:
Oh, terribly sad. I always enjoyed reading Stefek's posts. Thanks for letting us know though.
"ZABA Stefek. Died suddenly on March 26, 2007, aged 47 years. He leaves a Wife Christina and two Children Helena and Paul. Funeral mass and commemoration service to take place at SS Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Cathedral, Pembroke Road, Clifton on Thursday, April 5 at 11.30 a.m. Refreshments will be provided at The Polish Club, St. Paul's Road, Clifton after the service, all welcome. Floral tributes or donations, if preferred, for Polish Scouts House, may be sent c/o Thomas Davis Funeral Directors, Southville Lodge. Southville Road, Southville, Bristol, BS3 1DJ."
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Sad indeed :-(
It is sad. The good tend to die young on here.
Shhh! Don't give H&S ideas ...
What is really sad too is that there are a group of regular contributors here - and I mean contributors as there are one or two or three sources of noise that shall remain nameless that are clearly not 'good' !! - and any of you could shuffle off and just as with Stefek no one would know. It's taken a chance finding nearly 5 years after his death, and quite clearly a number of you remember him well. No solution I think unless I write in my will that someone should tell you, but then, apart from not being argumentative, perhaps I'm just noise as well.
Rob
There are a few others I've wondered what happened to:
KKKKatie, what she didn't know about Water/Sewage regs, spetic tanks, etc wasn't worth knowing. Bill Boyd, great alarm expert Dave Williams, plumbing and heating (I have a vague recollection we found he had passed on a few years after the event)
And of course, it took a month to find out about Andy Hall.
I wonder about John Schmidt, the geology bloke?
AJH
In the last 12 months I have received phone calls from two people who just called everyone in the contacts list of their dead partners mobile phone to tell them that the person who owned the phone had passed away. That is not a job I would like to have to do.
There are at least 3 regular posters to the newsgroup listed in my mobile phone memory. One of them might mention on the newsgroup that had I had passed away should they receive such a call.
Its a situation that has been anticipated, unfortunately can`t find an updated version:
One can just hope they have moved on to tweeting or whatever. Newsgroups ain't as popular as they once were - and likely will all but die out as the present users get older and move on to that shed in the sky...
But it's also quite common for very regular, long-term posters just to suddenly quit for no discernable reason - can't think of names now of course, but several times I've thought "what happened to so-and-so", about a regular whose advice I respected, and then found their last ever post here, which gives no hint that it will actually be their last one (and someone will mention the name later and say "oh yeah I still see him around occasionally", so it's not as if they've died...)
David
Quite sad. Two children as well.
Matthew Marks - I spoke with him a long time after he left the newsgroup. I think it may have been Matthew who told me Dave Williams had passed on - Dave was a contributor to the original FAQ. Matthew also pointed out to me that the home build forum had stolen large chunks of our FAQ which Matthew and I wrote together, without attribution or permission.
Probably slightly harder with Sefek in that he had stopped posting here in about 2005 for other reasons, so there was less cause to check etc.
It would not be the same without you! ;-)
It does however raise the serious point that unpicking someone's digital existence is not actually a trivial task for those left behind.
You could add to that list Christian McArdle (sp?) again seemed to vanish without warning.
There is always
ISTR he and his wife were just about to have their first child when we had one of our pub meet-ups, so family life may have overtaken him.
Not a bad idea but one would have to be a bit cautious with the time out and perhaps have it email two or three people you know an trust to confim what it thinks before going into action.
I see that over in the states there a laws starting to appear that would enable those left to manage the deceased "digital profile". For those with faceache, twoddle and the like accounts having something in your Will to enable your excutors to manage those accounts seems fairly sensible. Along with secure storeage of logins and passwords, possibly with the orginal Will.
Or simply stopped posting anywhere. I just don't get on with web forums and never will, and I suspect I'm not alone. I've got a few all-but-dead usenet groups that I'm subscribed to "just in case" and which I see no need to delete, but I suspect that when I next have cause to change usenet software I won't bother picking them up again.
cheers
Jules
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