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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on June 14, 2011, 03:37:47 PM
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Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-14-11 10:54 AM
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We received some sad news last night. DU member blondeatlast has passed away.
She died Sunday morning, June 12, 2011, of a stroke. One of her sisters sent us an email last night to let us know.
According to her sister, while on a flight to Hawaii she developed a headache and lost consciousness. The plane returned to LAX airport where she was taken to UCLA Medical Center and admitted to a neuroscience intensive care unit. She never regained consciousness and was removed from life support Sunday morning about 10:00 am. She held on for about 25 minutes with very little struggle.
She is survived by her son, her estranged husband, and her two sisters. The body will be cremated and returned to Phoenix, Arizona where she lived. Funeral plans are pending.
Her sister suggested that anyone wishing to make a memorial contribution in her name should make it to the Juvenile Diabetes Society or to DU.
Rest in peace, blondeatlast.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1293815
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That's too bad. RIP
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I see $kammer made an addendum to her sister's message. ::)
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Sad to hear that. Prayers for her and her family. :(
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Rest in Peace, Blondeatlast.
Hmmm let's see. Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, or the DU? Which? Decisions, decisions.
That really pisses me off people. WTF.
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Oh wow, God Bless her and her family. Condolences to everyone in her family and her friends at DU.
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RIP Blondeatlast. Condolences to her families and friends.
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How awful. Rest in peace Blondeatlast. Sympathies and condolences to her family.
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RIP Blondeatlast.
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Were you all friend's with her?
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^Not necessarily, but paying respects is probably the right thing to do.
R.I.P blondeatlast. My sincere thoughts, prayers, and sympathies go out to family, friends, and all who knew her.
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^Not necessarily, but paying respects is probably the right thing to do.
R.I.P blondeatlast. My sincere thoughts, prayers, and sympathies go out to family, friends, and all who knew her.
trying to imagine if one of our famous members passed away and we posted it what they would say :( I am for sure that wouldn't have ya'lls class.
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trying to imagine if one of our famous members passed away and we posted it what they would say :( I am for sure that wouldn't have ya'lls class.
Well, that's probably one of the good things about talk of our site being banned there.
RIP.
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trying to imagine if one of our famous members passed away and we posted it what they would say :( I am for sure that wouldn't have ya'lls class.
That's the very thing. They are grave dancers. We are better people. Period!
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We are better than them Gina. RIP Blondeatlast. Is that blond eat last or blond at last? Don't know why I wonder.
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RIP, blondeatlast.
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Agree 110% with Gina.
I hate "RIP, DUmmy" threads.
We are better than them, and we're not sanctimonious.
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Were you all friend's with her?
No, but I've been on message boards for years, and even when it's political you need to separate the opinion from the person themselves. I go to an entertainment type board with a small political section, I don't go to that section anymore, long story, but we lost 1 of the prominent liberals and I cried my eyes out. Like it or not, our opinions differ but we have a lot in common with the other side and the thing we most have in common is our passion for politics. No matter how much the right and left fought with each other at that board, if we went to another forum and someone dissed our adversary? it was on, we could fight with each other but no way would we let a non-political person diss any of us LOL.
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Saw this earlier. RIP, blondeatlast. God bless.
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Were you all friend's with her?
I love your dancing cat. I'm stealing it.
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What awful news - I can't help but wonder if it was a DVT clot that broke free- condolences.
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We are better than them Gina. RIP Blondeatlast. Is that blond eat last or blond at last? Don't know why I wonder.
It's blonde at last. I know, it does look confusing at first. She was a very nice, civil, caring person who'd been through a lot these past few years. We talked about legal work a lot, since she's a paralegal and I'm a former (and never again!) paralegal.
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I wonder how old her son is? Prayers for his comfort, and the same for the rest of the family and friends.
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God Bless, and prayers for easing the sorrow of her family and friends.
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I wonder how old her son is? Prayers for his comfort, and the same for the rest of the family and friends.
I believe her son is fourteen or fifteen, somewhere around there. I realize there's no "good age" at which to lose a parent, but to do so during the teen years, especially when she had primary custody of him and they were close, would really be an awful time. Thank you for the thoughts and prayers for the family, I'm sure they could use it. Some things transcend politics (or, at least, they should!) and this is one of them.
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Sorry to read this here tonight, blondeatlast was not one of the reasonably sane posters at DU but I wish her and her family peace and love.
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I believe her son is fourteen or fifteen, somewhere around there. I realize there's no "good age" at which to lose a parent, but to do so during the teen years, especially when she had primary custody of him and they were close, would really be an awful time. Thank you for the thoughts and prayers for the family, I'm sure they could use it. Some things transcend politics (or, at least, they should!) and this is one of them.
Oh, no! Poor kid. Such a shock, too. There are no good ages to lose a parent, but there are some terrible ones, and mid-teens is a terrible time. I sincerely hope he is close to his aunts and will be well loved.
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My deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.
We just went to the funeral for my son's jamboree scout master this past weekend. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April and he passed last week. He left behind his wife and his 16 year old disabled son. He lived long enough to see his son attain the rank of Eagle and he(his son) said that he was happy for that. The funeral was standing room only for this man and it was nice to see how many lives he touched.
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My deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.
We just went to the funeral for my son's jamboree scout master this past weekend. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April and he passed last week. He left behind his wife and his 16 year old disabled son. He lived long enough to see his son attain the rank of Eagle and he(his son) said that he was happy for that. The funeral was standing room only for this man and it was nice to see how many lives he touched.
Oh how horrible. So proud of his son!
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RIP, blondeatlast.
Something odd struck me about this "obituary" by $kinner:
She is survived by her son, her estranged husband, and her two sisters.
Who the hell writes that in a obit? :mental:
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Who the hell writes that in a obit? :mental:
The same person that includes "donate to my website". :shrug:
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RIP, blondeatlast.
Something odd struck me about this "obituary" by $kinner:
Who the hell writes that in a obit? :mental:
Lately I've been seeing that and other similar stuff. A frequent one is - the mother/father of his/her children.
I'm not sure why that is necessary, either.
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RIP, blondeatlast.
Something odd struck me about this "obituary" by $kinner:
Who the hell writes that in a obit? :mental:
Oh, believe me, nowadays obits are becoming like weddings, anything goes. I've seen a lot of strange ones these past several years. I just saw one yesterday in one of my local papers where a woman who died of cancer had lost her second husband last year and her first husband "the father of her four children" (why do they always put that in?) had stayed friends with her and came to care for her during her illness after her husband died. Last year, the obit of a guy who'd been married and divorced three times talked about how he and his fourth wife were still good friends with all of his ex-wives and they all got together several times a year. Weird, weird, weird. Now, that kind of thing has always happened, it's just that the information was usually not included in obits. It's just one of the many reasons that the writer in me likes to read obits, especially nowadays.
In BAL's case, my understanding was that she and her husband were officially divorced in '09, after he left her and their son for a much younger gal (who wasn't much older than their teenage son!) in Prague, after he was there on business. Then again, I don't know for certain if their divorce was absolutely final.
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Oh, believe me, nowadays obits are becoming like weddings, anything goes. I've seen a lot of strange ones these past several years. I just saw one yesterday in one of my local papers where a woman who died of cancer had lost her second husband last year and her first husband "the father of her four children" (why do they always put that in?) had stayed friends with her and came to care for her during her illness after her husband died. Last year, the obit of a guy who'd been married and divorced three times talked about how he and his fourth wife were still good friends with all of his ex-wives and they all got together several times a year. Weird, weird, weird. Now, that kind of thing has always happened, it's just that the information was usually not included in obits. It's just one of the many reasons that the writer in me likes to read obits, especially nowadays.
In BAL's case, my understanding was that she and her husband were officially divorced in '09, after he left her and their son for a much younger gal (who wasn't much older than their teenage son!) in Prague, after he was there on business. Then again, I don't know for certain if their divorce was absolutely final.
:argh: Man, that kid has really had it rough. Definitely praying for that young man.