From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 18 May 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Aragorn wrote:   
      
   >> 1: Adam : RIP......................................... : 2   
      
   >Due to the fact that my newsreader could not reply to the OT thread   
   >anymore because of a bug with the references header length,   
      
   File a bug report -  user agents have been required to handle "long"   
   headers (998 octets) for over ten years (section 2.1.1 of RFC2822, or   
   even "Son of 1036" later published for historic reasons as RFC1849).   
      
   >Adam was my age, and although I was aware of his health problems, I   
   >never thought he would actually succumb to them.  He certainly seemed   
   >like a guy with a positive attitude towards life, and even towards   
   >his frail health.   
      
   See my response to sctvguy1  last week in that   
   thread.  While getting the transplant was certain to let him live   
   longer and in somewhat better circumstances (I still recall "Dr.   
   McCoy" curing a kidney dialysis patient in the "Star Trek: The Voyage   
   Home" movie by giving her a "simple" pill he just happen to carry in   
   his doctor's bag), Adam was not likely to have anything like a   
   "normal" lifespan.  The big problem with all transplants remains the   
   immunosuppressant regimen needed to prevent rejection of the   
   transplant, which significantly increases the risk of "other"   
   problems.   
      
   >This is the second time now that I am witnessing the unexpected   
   >disappearance of a familiar Usenet poster at the hands of the Grim   
   >Reaper, and in this newsgroup.  The first one to unexpectedly pass   
   >away was Blinky The Shark.   
      
   Blinky was different. He went down-hill rather rapidly (days) and did   
   not seek the medical help that might have prevented his death. For   
   others who missed it, one of his last posts (in rec.food.cooking)   
      
     Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking   
     From: Blinky the Shark    
     Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:09:31 -0800   
     Local: Wed, Jan 28 2009 4:09 pm   
     Subject: Doctor Mom   
      
     I feel like shit.  I may have about ten minutes, here, before I have   
     to go back to bed.  Can't sleep, but don't have the energy to do   
     anything else, either -- not even read.  (And that just kills me.)   
     So I've been flashing back to little home remedies from growing up in   
     the 1950s...   
      
   Blinky passed away in his sleep about 3 days later. The official cause   
   of death on the death certificate was "Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular   
   Disease" according to a followup thread ("Blinky final (maybe)") in   
   alt.fan.cecil-adams on May 5 of that year.   
      
   >I raise my glass to both of them.  Requiescat in pace.   
      
   Agreed   
      
           Old guy   
      
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