GO ON, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO SAY IT.
"Time to meet your maker!", grinned Terry.
DEATH grinned back. It was the only expression he had.

Sad, but maybe we should be relieved or even glad he's gone before Alzheimer's destroyed his mind completely.

It would be nice, trying to pull the positives out of this, if it did trigger a bit more research on Alzheimer's. Be a nice tribute, and I'm sure Sir Terry would have appreciated it - not as much as actually curing it, that bit more promptly, of course.

No Douglas Adams, no Terry Prachett , I may give up reading altogether
He will be sorely missed.

Oook.

I think that's a typo I think what you meant to say was "Oook"

I agree. It's funny though the combinations of conditions and situations as well as the variances of Alzheimer's, if not the associated problems with it.

I've seen people die slowly as well as rapidly and have varieties of behavioral differences. The issues though were that some of them also had dementia or added other problems.

I've also had extremely coherent conversations with older persons describing things like cranberry farming or designing animatronics for Disney to find out from their family members that these things absolutely never happened. You feel half terrible, and you feel weird because you enjoyed the conversations and actually were not simply humoring the talker, you had actual interest.

Also had a working peer who's parent got dementia as well as Alzheimer's and they called many times to complain that the person's sister was trying to kill them. Said sister was half a country away. It was very unsettling for my coworker. They had to try and decide what line of care was finally beyond their level, and they didn't want to have to make that decision, it was their parent after all.

Saw this and thought of you all....

Reddit put forth the idea of "sending Sir Terry home", and you will need to read the Discworld novel Going Postal to properly get this, but this Reddit thread will give you an idea.

Essentially, you will be ading GNU Terry Pratchett to your server - a short line of code which will not affect anything and will not hurt your machines. But, if you install a Chrome add on, you wil be able to identify other people involved in this. V. little cost and no pain!

And an explanation, via quoted text, of what GNU means in this context

I love the idea. Very fitting for a man who will be sorely missed and described the memorial himself!

Play Bonny Sir Terry!



I just had to change my signature...