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Comment on Curnir leaves us, but also leaves us a part of him. by SkeptiKhatt

SkeptiKhatt — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:39:56 +0000

Thank you for writing this appreciation of our dear friend, Kitty. He was one of a kind — so dear, so sweet, so funny. Chat really never will be quite the same. I’m very thankful that I got to spend time with him in person on the first cruise, and to hear his gentle, wry voice in many a Skype or G+ session.

Comment on Curnir leaves us, but also leaves us a part of him. by Mike McRae

Mike McRae — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:19:53 +0000

I had not idea Curnir passed away. That’s a beautiful tribute, Kitty. I often see people’s lives as analogous to stories – you did a great job of telling this one.

Mike
(Athon)

Comment on Curnir leaves us, but also leaves us a part of him. by jj

jj — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:44:09 +0000

Alas, I will miss his cheerful personna in the chat room, but more I will just be sad that he’s gone. And gone so suddenly. I had no idea he had any disability, and his chat presence simply didn’t reflect that at all.

His responses to things on facebook demonstrated a gift for friendly humor. I will certainly miss that as well. Needless to say, I never met the fellow in person, and now I won’t have the chance.

I am sad.

Comment on Curnir leaves us, but also leaves us a part of him. by Jeff Wagg

Jeff Wagg — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:10:31 +0000

A lovely tribute, Kitty. Thank you.

Comment on Curnir leaves us, but also leaves us a part of him. by Kochanski

Kochanski — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:10:11 +0000

I will dearly miss Curnir, I also got the joyous all caps greeting in chat, KOCH would be there to greet me and make me smile. I am happy to say I got to give both Brobdingnagian Bards hugs for him at the sci fi convention I work at, I just wish he could have attended one himself. I will think of him always when I see them.

I am sad that I will never get to meet him in person and chat is a sadder place without his presence and joyful greetings.

Comment on Curnir leaves us, but also leaves us a part of him. by Brainlesssteel

Brainlesssteel — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:12:57 +0000

There was nobody nicer than Curnir. It’s a really terrible loss. Thanks for writing this, Kitty, I couldn’t have said it any better.

Comment on Curnir leaves us, but also leaves us a part of him. by Geek Goddess

Geek Goddess — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:55:46 +0000

My greeting was always GODDESS! Really, who would not love that?

I got to meet Curnir on the first JREF cruise. I miss him.

Comment on Curnir leaves us, but also leaves us a part of him. by Ellie Luchinsky

Ellie Luchinsky — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:04:52 +0000

I miss seeing “LADY!” every time I log into chat. Curnir, you left us way too soon.

Comment on Do You Believe in Life After Death? Part Two by Susan Gerbic

Susan Gerbic — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:08:59 +0000

Thanks Wendy, Love learning more about you.

When my mother learned I was non-religious she was very hurt. I don’t think she ever understood that I was actually an atheist. When we moved her into my home, we put all the atheist books out of vision, and we never discussed religion near her. Her health was declining and we felt that there was no reason to upset her. She had lived a good Christian life (Southern Baptist) and felt she was going to heaven to be with my father, why upset that?

But, then I remembered how upset my mother used to get because my father (Catholic) would not attend church. I was really stressed out as a child that my father was going to hell. Very upsetting. My mother told me a couple years before she died that she always expected that my father was an atheist. If I had only known that. I became an atheist in my teens and felt very alone.

Wendy is correct. Have these conversations with your parents. Don’t be afraid of them, you will know the correct things to say. They may be waiting for to have the same discussion with you, and once they are gone, it is too late.

Comment on A Tale of Two Treatments by Plop

Plop — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:33:16 +0000

If you are interested, you can check EXIT (A swiss association) that helps people with fatal diagnosis to leave. You need to have your full mental capacity in order to do it, but they come at home and the patient take the final medication by himself (My grandma died this way and a friend’s grandmother did, too).

In France they are battling over how dangerous it is, so I don’t know how America would react to it :)