Goodbye.

I dont really like you but I hope you will live through whatever you have to take on.  Hope ya make it, good luck.

Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by Rikimaru_X

is there anything we can do for you, before you go?

Put aside petty differences. We are all humans who want the same fulfillment in life, we just choose alternate paths.

We all come to this site everyday for our own reasons - whether it be to speak our mind, to vent our frustration or simply to speak to a friendly, or at times, not so friendly, crowd. We have our ups and downs, ins and outs and yes, even our side to sides. This, like any brick or mortar commonality, is our community. Respect each other - you may disagree, but keep it within the boundaries of courtesy.

Looking into the possibility of one's own mortality makes you think of the important elements in life.

Forty-two is the answer - it's your responsibility to figure out the question.

Thanks for the kind words.

Edit: And, before anyone asks the proverbial question, no, you can't have my stuff.

Epic

Originally posted by killerTwinkie

Dekron,

Wow - it has been quite a while!  Too long, if you ask me, and I am sorry we haven't kept in touch.  I admit the news threw me off though your approach does not.

I'd post like the others about fighting this, but from what I remember of you Dekron, you're a fighter.  You wont let this get you down and you're gonna finish it swinging (fighting).

If I could, i'd like to make a request: live the time you have left as you did before it - "Live, Love and Laugh", brother. Keep faith that you'll make it through this.

The world is a better place to have known you and so am I.

Stay strong!

Damn talk about an old face or should I say old faces. We all hear for you Dek.

Dekron,

I don't post often anymore, and I'm not sure if you remember me - but that does not matter. I was very shocked and sad to read this post, and I don't know what to say. When someone who likely won't be with us for a very long time tells you to 'live life to the fullest' and 'put aside petty differences', it makes a large impact. Even though it sounds cliché, I simply wanted to post to say that the message came through and has already made a difference.

In any case, farewell in the truest sense of the word.

Michael

  You know, I didn't start believing in fate until a few years ago. But now, more than ever, I think it is prevalent.

  I stopped posting for a while, because I had realized that my post count had reached 999. I realized that a poster's 1000th post is something special, like an ascention, a rite of passage. So, I waited, to see precisely what I would use it on, what would be the threshold to deliver me into that bracket. I waited, and I waited, and nothing seemed right. It all seemed... trivial.

  But seeing your thread here today, it made my concept of the 1000th post even more trivial. Like, I held some stupid scrap of elitism, in an electronic arena. And perhaps, that is just what it is.

  However meaningful/meaningless it might be, I would like to dedicate my 1000th post to you, Dekron. We didn't know each other very well, we weren't friends, or anything like that. But I held a great deal of respect for you as a senior member, as somebody who certainly spoke with knowledge, and not of ignorance. I wish you the best, and I hope that the time you have left is well spent.

  I wrote a poem a few days ago for friends who were graduating and leaving, but once again, as fate would have it, I found it very fitting;

An ode to friends gone by

I nod to comrades of a forgotten era.
To people whose presence brought the day to us.
Resplendent spirits of the rarest kind.
Fellow people on the battlefield of transition.
Like floating, aimless joy.
Balloons on the horizon of a forlorn landscape.
Without anchor, but laden with much.

To you, my friends,
I owe honor, recognition,
Sweet reverence for sacrifice.
I give the Purple Heart
Of a grateful man.

I send you off.
A salute.
Bittersweet sorrow of memories gone,
Laughs in halls of time.
An empty casket,
In an imaginary pyre.

But still, I salute your passing.
I smile,
Pride, reluctance, and love
They fill me.
And they let me know,
That my service wasn't for naught.

Goodbye,
And let the ashes of those memories
Bring life to new beginnings.

   Good luck, and may the Fates smile upon you and your family.

Don't let this be your last goodbye,  you still have some awnriness left in you. 

Wish you only the best Dekron. I was having a really terrible day today, but reading your post earlier put things in a little better perspective and I did something today that probably changed my life...

Thank you for this Dekron, and for all the other contributions you made to the forums. You've been around a long time and we're gona miss you.

i hate to see you go buddy. and i hope you can get threw this

Dek, don't give up man. I still got a rez left.

Dekron, don't give up just yet. You just realized the true way to enjoy life. Try not to think of when you are going to pass, but just do what you enjoy and live life like every day is your last.

I could write this, sign off and go to sleep and never wake up. It is upsetting to be told when your ticket is up, but remember it is really an estimate. I never trust what doctors say. Especially when they make a guestimate and act as if it is a fact.

NEVER GIVE UP! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! WHOOHOO! Live it up! Enjoy every touch, every smell, every sight as if it were your last and when it is your time to pass, you can flash back to one hell of a time.

Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by Rikimaru_X

is there anything we can do for you, before you go?

Put aside petty differences. We are all humans who want the same fulfillment in life, we just choose alternate paths.

We all come to this site everyday for our own reasons - whether it be to speak our mind, to vent our frustration or simply to speak to a friendly, or at times, not so friendly, crowd. We have our ups and downs, ins and outs and yes, even our side to sides. This, like any brick or mortar commonality, is our community. Respect each other - you may disagree, but keep it within the boundaries of courtesy.

Looking into the possibility of one's own mortality makes you think of the important elements in life.

Forty-two is the answer - it's your responsibility to figure out the question.

Thanks for the kind words.

Edit: And, before anyone asks the proverbial question, no, you can't have my stuff.

ahh sorry for not responding quicker riki just google chatted me. I've been too busy with work and such for forums.

Sorry to hear the news man, plenty of people have been through situations we wonder how the hell we survived, but to hear that your terminal from a doctor has to be completely mind numbing.

do yourself a favor don't make don't let this turn the rest of your life no matter how long bitter.

If i still prayed i would pray for you

"Life" by Jodie Cooke

Life is hard,
Life is tough,
You need to be strong,
And never give up

There may be days,
That never seem to end,
And you feel like you,
Don't have a friend,

But keep on walking
Down that road,
Your friends will follow
And bear your load,

But face each day,
And what it brings,
And you'll be ready,
To face any thing.
 

Every minute of every day is another little bonus.

Always something new to look forward to.

Thanks for taking the time to spam with me over the years, keep it rock and roll old son.

I took this in 2004 and I found it while trying to find some old pictures to show my girlfriend. You can see Dekron posting:

Three things will endure: faith, hope, and love, the greatest of these is love.

Do what you have to Dekron, I'm glad that I randomly came to this site for the first time in awhile to check if anyone had posted anything about the UFC game...I would hate to later find out that I missed an opportunity to pray for someone who truly needs it.

I'm sorry to hear this transpire and will miss your posts.

I have a family member in dire conditions and she is still alive 16 years after the horrifying event.

My point with that is there is hope.

Originally posted by Wickersham

I don't know the details, but I'll just give you this advice, and if it doesn't apply then ignore it:

Fight for your life.  If a doctor isn't willing to help you fight, tell him you want another doctor who is.  If a hospital is not willing to help you fight, move to one that is.  It is your life and not theirs, so it is your fight and not theirs.

I hope you are undertaking this already Dekron. My family member has done this and is better for it.

I'll offer you a phrase I rarely use anymore:

May you be blessed and bless those around you.

Take care Dekron and I hope you are peaceful.

Don't give up old man!