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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:29 AM Mar 2014

This sounds more flippant than I mean it to be: have a lot of DUers been dying lately?

It just seems like there have been a whole bunch. I know any large enough online community is going to have deaths pretty much constantly, it's just weird how some things seem to cluster (or maybe it's just that one person writes a great OP eulogy and other people who otherwise wouldn't have said much get inspired to write one too when a DUer passes on).

Anyways.

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This sounds more flippant than I mean it to be: have a lot of DUers been dying lately? (Original Post) Recursion Mar 2014 OP

i was thinking about that tonight fizzgig Mar 2014 #1

Could you please give their names? femmocrat Mar 2014 #6

GratefulforHope, SmileyRose and BeHereNow pinboy3niner Mar 2014 #7

Thank you. Such sad news. femmocrat Mar 2014 #8

Wouldn't be shocked to learn that it's weather-related. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #2

SmileyRose posted just about a year ago that she was dying magical thyme Mar 2014 #9

I'm trying to find out what happened to Grateful for Hope, but so far don't know. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2014 #11

a lot of people die in the winter, all my relatives, hollysmom Mar 2014 #3

This is a pretty big community anymore rurallib Mar 2014 #4

like the oscars some missed more UTUSN Mar 2014 #5

Maybe more that have been announced, but unless someone knows the person davidpdx Mar 2014 #10

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)

1. i was thinking about that tonight

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:37 AM

Mar 2014

we've had three in less than a week. very sad time for us.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

6. Could you please give their names?

Reply to fizzgig (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 11:06 PM

Mar 2014

I haven't been on very much lately. Thanks so much.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

7. GratefulforHope, SmileyRose and BeHereNow

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 11:13 PM

Mar 2014

Links here, thanks to malaise:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024593177

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024590750

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024579623

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4596199

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

8. Thank you. Such sad news.

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 11:14 PM

Mar 2014

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)

2. Wouldn't be shocked to learn that it's weather-related.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:40 AM

Mar 2014

Don't know for sure... but I suspect that's reflected in the gen population as well.

Severe cold stresses the system. Factor in other variables ( age, etc) and "there ya go".

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)

9. SmileyRose posted just about a year ago that she was dying

Reply to Smarmie Doofus (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 11:58 PM

Mar 2014

after she was diagnosed with cancer and given about 1 year.

BeHereNow was diagnosed with some kind of cancer within the last couple of months or so, which was found too late.

GreatfulForHope had just renewed on MIRT about a month ago, so her passing seems very unexpected. I don't know how much (within DU) is known as far as what happened.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,735 posts)

11. I'm trying to find out what happened to Grateful for Hope, but so far don't know.

Reply to magical thyme (Reply #9)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 10:28 AM

Mar 2014

Her last post was in MIRT on January 30.

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)

3. a lot of people die in the winter, all my relatives,

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:48 AM

Mar 2014

seems to be snowing when they are dead. I think it is weather related since they die from heart attacks and strokes.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

4. This is a pretty big community anymore

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 10:51 PM

Mar 2014

and it has been around for quite a while. Some of the folks that have passed recently were pretty well known and thought of.
Seems almost like what happens in small towns in a way

UTUSN

(70,695 posts)

5. like the oscars some missed more

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 11:04 PM

Mar 2014

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

10. Maybe more that have been announced, but unless someone knows the person

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:10 AM

Mar 2014

and posts about it there are probably a lot of people who pass without any mention.

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