In Memoriam...

[aramis]

Dale Kuntz, 1968-2009, longtime resident of Anchorage, and longtime gamer, and former AK2 in the USNR, and desert storm veteran, passed away last night from unspecified and untreatable cancer, at the age of 40. He was diagnosed on 23 Dec 2008, and died 2345hrs 9 Feb 2008.

He and I have been friends for at least 15 years. He played in quite a number of my games.

He passed away quietly at home, with his wife and cats nearby.

Knowing that at least a couple of other members knew him and gamed with him, I figured I should post it here.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

We've lost a lot of good people recently.

 

[Jame]

We've lost a lot of good people recently.

Yes. *Raises a toast to Mr. Kunts*

I think that this loss of good people has been going for a while, and is only going to continue...

 

[fiat_knox]

Dale Kuntz, 1968-2009, longtime resident of Anchorage, and longtime gamer, and former AK2 in the USNR, and desert storm veteran, passed away last night from unspecified and untreatable cancer, at the age of 40. He was diagnosed on 23 Dec 2008, and died 2345hrs 9 Feb 2008.

That is a tragedy indeed. I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[dean]

Those of us who took up RPGs when they came out as teens and young adults are all reaching that age where mortality begins to cast a shadow on the door.

My heartfelt sympathies to you, his wife, and other family.

Long may his shipmates remember him fondly.

 

[Imperial Planetologist]

My sincere condolences on the loss of your friend.

 

[spinwardpirate]

My condolences as well. We are a rare breed, and to lose one of us at such a young age is tragic.

 

[anders lager]

And my condolences as well, Aramis. Your friend was born the same year as I am. Makes you think, doesn't it...

And I lost a friend too, a few years ago, so I know how you feel. So, a toast to absent friends...

 

[Madarin Dude]

Sad to hear about loosing one from the fold. We are but a few and one less diminishes us all. My heartfelt condolences.

 

[ThunderChilde]

Set a place for the missing one, and do not forget to pour a drink for him when a toast is made to abscent friends. I have to commemorate more gamers who've moved on than I care to mention.

When I get home from work tonight I will set out two shot glasses and drink to the remeberence of my fallen friends who have left me behind.

 

[BlackBat242]

Agreed... I was introduced to Traveller in 1983 by a fellow Marine. In the summer of 1984, while I was deployed to Japan, he was hit & killed by a drunk driver on the 10 freeway just east of Pasadena, Ca.


To absent gaming friends.

 

[aramis]

And my condolences as well, Aramis. Your friend was born the same year as I am. Makes you think, doesn't it...

And I lost a friend too, a few years ago, so I know how you feel. So, a toast to absent friends...

Dale was a year and a week older than me. So, yeah, it hits home.

To Absent Friends!

 

[Icosahedron]

My condolences on the loss of your friend, Aramis.

I'd like to think all those guys are sitting around the Great Table in the Sky, where all the rules work and there's unlimited beer and popcorn...

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Condolences.

Pretty much the same thoughts as all. Death of friends is hard, I too have a one or two.

(OK now this is weird, the HBT is mixed with Roy Batty's little end of the line haiku with the music is playing right as I type this...odd.)

/ka-snip/
I'd like to think all those guys are sitting around the Great Table in the Sky, where all the rules work and there's unlimited beer and popcorn...

So, be well, and don't listen to Icosa, only cheap ass Refs only supply popcorn, every good Ref supplies pizza.

Take care. ^[VR]

 

[Starviking]

My condolences Aramis.

 

[Darkhstarr]

My condolences also, Aramis. Both of my parents died after long illnesses in 2008. Two of my closest friends came down with cancer of the uterus also, months after they were told they were just suffering from menapause. For one, they didn't catch soon enough & she's currently undergoing chemo. The other, a longtime Aslan player's surgery was successful in eliminating all the cancer. Unfortunately, she came back to work just in time to be laid off.