Passings - Page 3

juantoo3 · 01-24-2008, 03:28 AM

Hear, hear! <doffs hat and bows deeply>

flowperson · 01-29-2008, 09:25 PM

When someone like this leaves us I feel like part of what I am is now missing.
Marie Smith Jones, 89; last fluent speaker of Eyak language - Los Angeles Times

BBC NEWS | Americas | Last Alaska language speaker dies

The absence of this gentleman will be greatly missed by those who witnessed his steps towards leading the Greek Orthodox faith out of the darkness they'd been in for so long.

Archbishop Christodoulos, 69; led Greek Orthodox Church - Los Angeles Times

flow....

flowperson · 02-05-2008, 09:01 PM

The first article details the life of a reknowned scientist who truly changed the world and our knowledge of it's life systems as a result of his work.

In the second, for those of you who remember The Fugitive as a pretty good film featuring Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimball, and Tommy Lee Jones as Lt. Gerard pursuing him might not remember the TV series which preceeded it in the 1960's.

It was popular in those days because the theme was injustice, grim and implacable pursuit, and the inevitable defeat and punishment of the innocent. Many of us in that era felt those things in real life, and they were not manufactured illusions. They were a reality which led many of us into military service and Vietnam, as if that were some sort of escape from it all.

enjoy...flow....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us...ml?ref=science

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituari...,7035479.story

Tao_Equus · 02-05-2008, 09:54 PM

Another one I spotted today, a man ahead of his times in Anthropology, David Maybury-Lewis.

Obituary: David Maybury-Lewis | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited

flowperson · 02-05-2008, 10:14 PM

Tao...Very enlightening. Your journalists seem to be, as a whole, much better writers than ours. There is so much of value packed into this article.
Thanks !

flow....

flowperson · 02-17-2008, 08:14 PM

Two giants of conveying the understanding of big science to the public passed recently. Each of their stories are beneficial to read.

flow....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/he...ref=obituaries
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/sc...ref=obituaries

juantoo3 · 06-08-2008, 12:16 PM

Not exactly a giant in the world of science, but he influenced the world of popular music for several generations:

Diddley's last show: Area says goodbye | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, FL

juantoo3 · 07-17-2008, 12:26 PM

I read that Dr. Debakkey, a renowned heart surgeon, passed away over this past weekend at the age of 99.

17th Angel · 07-17-2008, 01:39 PM

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I read that Dr. Debakkey, a renowned heart surgeon, passed away over this past weekend at the age of 99.

This past weekend? He and the other 299,999 people..... (aprox)

juantoo3 · 07-18-2008, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex P

This past weekend? He and the other 299,999 people..... (aprox)

Duly noted Alex. It was Flowperson who began this thread as a memorium for those who have made a large impact on greater society. It was in honor of Flow that I thought marking the death of a world renowned heart surgeon was fitting and proper.

juantoo3 · 07-26-2008, 03:38 AM

Randy Pausch, "Last Lecture" professor, died yesterday. If you haven't seen his lecture, I highly recommend it. The article has links to it.

ABC News: Randy Pausch, 'Last Lecture' Professor Dies

juantoo3 · 11-06-2008, 09:31 PM

This thread is so much more poignant to me now that our dear Flow is gone...

Michael Crichton, sci fi writer of such as Jurassic Park and Andromeda Strain, has passed away.

Michael Crichton,'Jurassic Park' writer, dies at 66 - International Herald Tribune

Tao_Equus · 11-07-2008, 03:45 PM

I appreciate this thread being made a sticky. It seems so obvious now with hindsight that Flow knew his time was drawing to a close. And this thread shows how much he valued life. His appreciation for the human spirit was noble and loving right up to the end.

The WWW gives each of us the opportunity to achieve a little immortality. It captures some essence of ourselves in our words on places like this and leaves them pinned there for others to discover and revisit. You need not be a great and famous person and have hard volumes printed to remain alive in your words and thoughts these days. We are lucky. We can deliver value, insight, tragedy, comedy, love and much more out into the electronic ether to live long after we are gone. Flow did so...and he lives!

tao

juantoo3 · 11-07-2008, 08:40 PM

Hear! Hear!

wil · 11-08-2008, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by juantoo3

This thread is so much more poignant to me now that our dear Flow is gone...

I get the same feeling. Some of you may now know of a local musician around here. She died before her time. Very little recognition during her lifetime. A few months after she passed a local radio station and some of her friends put together a two hour tribute using recordings picked up at local gigs and those she tried to get a recording contract with.

I was building an addition on my mothers house as the tribute rolled on and memories flowed. Then they played Somewhere over the Rainbow, I had to sit down, listening to her voice from the beyond was more than I could take.

This song is for you flow...