In article <9dtpb51buh79au09es8n7eav6lm2dqvtcj@4ax.com>, NP-f31 wrote:
> Has it really been five years already? Five years ago today I got a
> frantic e-mail from the only girl I know to have received a Fort
> Badge, Princess NP-g03, telling me that MTB (NP-g02) had been rushed
> to the hospital. The preliminary report was not good and she was off
> to the hospital. It was late in the evening and there was nothing I
> could do.
>
> The next morning I made plane reservations to fly to Australia and I
> frantically tried to reach anyone I knew in Australia. I received a
> phone call a bit later from down under. MTB had died just after
> midnight (already the next day there) of bacterial meningitis. In the
> confusion that followed, his Princess joined him, it was her choice to
> be with him in death rather than live a long life without him.
>
> I'm not the only one who was devastated by the death of a 15 year old
> kid from Queensland. There was a deep emotional outpouring in The Fort
> and in a few other groups he had played in. Some of you knew him as
> Frex or Freckles. Ninja is his CyberGrandad, Mephi and KidHacker were
> his friends he touched the lives of many others.
>
> I still cry sometimes, when I remember him...
>
> Doc
> NP-f31
>
> Missed The Bus NP-g02
> (12-24-88 to 09-27-04)
"I'm sorry for your loss" has become so overused and trite it has
ceased to be sincere, so please disregard I almost used it.
A bit of craziness will have to suffice:
In the end, the purpose of the living is to die so there can be new
life. What a crazy way to run a universe. How should we cope with this?
By remembering the lives of others as we live in their honor, and honor
them by being our best for the future.
Does this happen? Hardly ever, but the world still goes on, and that's
funny. Maybe it will improve. Starting one at a time. There are a lot
of ones. And zeros. Is the universe binary? I'm not bi-ing it.
Mover
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