I live across from one of the major hospitals in San Francisco, so I see people under the influence and coming off of all kinds of drugs, and some of it is genuinely horrifying to watch. I'm sorry to hear your brother got mixed up in something like that.

really dude why are you on the internet posting articles about it and changing your member title and stuff?  you should go GRIEVE or spend time with your family or something that doesn't involve chatting with random internet people about it.  i don't know, i guess you can do whatever you want, but if my brother died i feel like the last thing i would want to do is get on the internet and chat about it with strangers.  you should take some time for yourself.

That's what I was trying to say, in less offensive terms. =/

I know i'm just some internet guy but I just wanted to come in and say that you and your brother will be in my thoughts and prayers. As many others said, you can get through this mate :\

I'm really sorry man..
I recently lost a Grandfather, who I'll be honest I wasnt majorly close to, but it still hurt, so I can't imagine
what your going through.

When you want to cry, cry and when you want to laugh, laugh, don't enter into a spiral of "He wouldnt want me to..." etc because that's when things will go from terrible to insanity.

My deepest condolences to you and your family.

Im terribly sorry dude. Ive had some deaths in my family, but I was younger, and they didnt happen this way. I really hope you can find some comfort in a good way.

it is pretty weird to see you post this because didn't you argue a while back that the ties you make with people over them interwebs can be as real and valuable as in real life? As dubious as it sounds I'm probably attached enough to GW to come here for feedback at a time of crisis myself.

sorry if I confused you with someone else here and spammed this thread with factually incorrect regurgitation tho!


and for what it's worth, you have my condolences as well elighja. hope it helps.

i don't remember one way or the other, to be honest, but i'm going to go ahead and say PROBABLY NOT because i do not think that at all and in fact think the exact opposite (internet relationships are, for me anyway, intrinsically less meaningful than any substantial real life connection i would have.  that's not to say that they mean nothing, but it's always going to be less than their physical counterparts.  i was actually talking about this the other day and attributed it to the lack of true personality that you see when a person's body language and voice aren't involved, among other reasons that WHILE INTERESTING probably would be more suited to another topic).  although i guess they may have value in a nontraditional sense that doesn't necessarily depend on the cultivation of a relationship itself, or an intimate connection with/knowledge of another person.  that is to say, a lot of internet relationships have had value for me, even really insignificant ones, simply because of what i was able to learn/take away from them more than the relationship, or the person it was with, itself.  but i don't think i would've made that argument.


so, no, but maybe!  in any case, if i did, i changed my mind.

hello everyone and thank you all so much for your support. It really means allot to me and my family. Im back now, i had to fly to another province to arrange my brothers funeral and fly back after the funeral. Im ready to slowly direct myself back to my everyday life. The funeral was huge with over 180 ppl signed n the guest book. But it was also very sad.