Oxygen Basic
Information => Open Forum => Topic started by: Patrice Terrier on January 22, 2020, 08:00:41 AM
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I am very sorry to inform you that Mike's health is in a very critical state.
He has been put in major sedation.
His doctor does not have a positive forecast.
Nothing else to do than hope and pray for now...
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It's very bad news...
Михаил, выздоравливайте! Сейчас не то время чтобы болеть!
Желаю всего наилучшего и скорейшего здорового возвращения на форум и программерскую деятельность.
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Thanks for letting us know, Patrice. I hope Mike pulls through.
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Health can be a formidable foe if you depend on others to steer.
I have been battling kidney failure for the last 2 years and finally have the upper hand and no longer living with a catheter.
Mike has never given up easy and if anyone can pull himself out of the corner it's Mike.
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Wow... what happened to him? :(
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Mike has been dealing with serious health issues for some time. He just didn't let on to others in forums. Most of us BASIC folk are getting up there in age and the body wears out. How life works.
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Most of us BASIC folk are getting up there in age and the body wears out. How life works.
Yep, that is what i had in mind when i said to Brian that he should not invest too much of his time on a dying market, especially if he needs to earn a living from his work.
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My clients are looking for affordable solutions they needed yesterday. They could care less if it's written in BASIC or Brainfuck. BASIC doesn't need to be main stream among small business which makes up most of the economy.
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I'm really sorry.
Mike has never given up easy and if anyone can pull himself out of the corner it's Mike.
Hope this will be the case!
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...Most of us BASIC folk are getting up there in age and the body wears out...
We are used to that, but i dont see that as normal. Hopefully he can recover soon...
Patrice, i personally dont believe a compiler dies only when the author/developer of the compiler dies. I believe it can als die when it's supporters slowly become less and less... to few to make it affordable for the developer of the language. Sometimes I wish i was millionare. I dont want to get money from it, i just would like to make it available to everyone.
Also, do you think Mike's health issue is too personal to share whats going on with him?
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About Mike,
He had first a heart attack, then abdominal surgery, and it is also suspected that he made a brain stroke during the last week, while he was already in the hospital (unconscious).
The forecast is bad, he's not getting better and now it is not clear whether consciousness is still there.
I am speechless, and can just cry…
But i know my friend would rather die, than become a vegetable.
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I share your tears as Mike was a very good friend.
Thanks for the update.
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But i know my friend would rather die, than become a vegetable.
I battle with this question daily. When the best of the best said there was no hope to save my daughter from dying from H1N1, I proved them wrong and found a way to save her. She ended up a wheelchair bound quadriplegic that requires everything be done for her. Did I make the right choice? I'm still waiting for that answer from her.
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I share your tears as Mike was a very good friend.
Was??... has he passed away?
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Was as I don't think I will have communications with Mike again.
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I was not aware about Mike's health status until the end of last year, and it was shocking for me to read his description of his condition. And now it turns out that the situation was and is much worse. It is just terrible.
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Mike started experiencing multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, which is an indicator of the last stages of life.
Toxins are increasing in the blood. The doctor gives him maybe up to 3 more days.
:'( :'( :'(
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I am sorry to read this sad news, but there's still hope for a miracle
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My wish for Mike is they give him as much morphine he can tolerate and play his favorite rock music through earphones. I wish I could be there to say goodbye and give him a hug for everything he has done in his life to help others.
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I was not aware about Mike's health status until the end of last year, and it was shocking for me to read his description of his condition. And now it turns out that the situation was and is much worse. It is just terrible.
Arnold, was that on a public post? If so, i think i missed it. Can you point me to the link if available?
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I thinks it's this one, Brian
https://www.oxygenbasic.org/forum/index.php?topic=1975.msg21109#msg21109
We all have an appointment with the grim reaper but there is nothing to fear:
The Final Border: Peter Fenwick at TEDxBerlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTj2TEHVqTc
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One lesson life doesn't teach us is how to let go so we are stuck with grief.
The Final Border
Sugar coated death explanation.
I believe most of the events he refers to is the natural shutdown cycle that occurs. The mind is the master of self preservation and death is the exit door. It could be the portion of our brain we don't use in life is saved for the death experience as the final safety net.
One should consider composting rather that other burial methods. It now legal in WA state.
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Mike passed away today friday 31, 2020 at 11:40 in the morning.
Repose en paix mon ami.
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thank you Patrice for letting us know, may he rest in peace :'(
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(http://www.objreader.com/download/images/mike.jpg)
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May he rest in peace :'(
BTW, how old was he?
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:(
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He was close to 64 (born on march 3, 1956).
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A farewell, but no forgetting.
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:(((
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Mike made excellent contributions to the o2 project as well as assuming the role of bugmagnet-in-chief.
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Damn, I am bawling right now. Just visited the forum for the first time in a long time and read this.
There is nobody I had more respect and admiration for as a programmer than Mike and FBSL was an amazing language that quickly became one of my favorites.
Rest in peace, Mike! You were loved and will be missed.
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Damn, an unread PM from Mike from almost a year ago. Truly was heartbreaking to read that PM.