What is not mentioned in the article was that Andy lived in a state where his life saving operation was provided FREE OF CHARGE. Andy lived with socialized medicine. If that is good for us, why did Andy need to fund-raise to access healthcare in a non-socialized state?
In the end, Andy got his private heath care, and died anyways. Pancreatic cancer is a near 100% killer. Only a small percentage survives. The odds were never in Andy's favor.
As mentioned in posts above, many DUers were skeptical of this internet fund raising scheme. Why? Because details were sketchy at best, deliberately vague at worst. People there and here rightly wondered if this was a scam. Coming clean would have helped, but no one ever did, and so the term, "Andyscam" began to be tossed about. Andyscam became an internet joke.
**** To this day, there is no real accounting as to where the funds went, or even how much was raised.
and in a ghoulish twist DU now uses the death as a means to attack any and all enemies of the site. Andy is no martyr. He was a DUmmy through and through. A political activist, his wages were skimmed off the money he raised for various causes. Hence it was normal for Andy to not give a full accounting of what he did with his fundraising: its the cause/never question the cause. Andy lived the DU dream, never really working a day in his life.
So I sit back and enjoy the fantasy thats built up year by year that DU tosses out. Andyscam is living proof of Frank's statement of truth: "DUmmies lie. All the time, DUmmies lie."