@dang I don’t know what the criteria for the black top banner are, but Jake would have earned it, IMHO. I never met him personally, but his writing deeply moved me, and others too, judging from the reactions.
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#62The craziest thing to me is he was still posting up to the very end. I've seen this multiple times in end-stage cancers, my grandfather's pancreatic cancer, he seemed "fine" (other than looking incredibly sick) til the last ~12 hours or so - he was even doing some yard work the day or two before he died. He knew the entire time how much time was left, too. I don't know why I find this so crazy, other than I hope I never have to go through it - you're very aware of what's going on for a long, long time up until the end.
Glad he is no longer suffering.
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#63The craziest thing to me is he was still posting up to the very end. I've seen this multiple times in end-stage cancers, my grandfather's pancreatic cancer, he seemed "fine" (other than looking incredibly sick) til the last ~12 hours or so - he was even doing some yard work the day or two before he died. He knew the entire time how much time was left, too. I don't know why I find this so crazy, other than I hope I ne…
I think thats why cancer is such a vicious illness to have a loved one experience. Its a long drawn-out suffering, with an inevitability at the end of it. The body shuts down gradually as the cancer wins out. For my sister it was the same with 'good days' vs 'bad days'. At first bad days were the minority and over time the ratio changed.
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#64Jake's wife on FDA deregulation https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/the-drugs-killing-dying-...
May Jake rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing to his wife and daughter.
Their views on clinical trials were understandable given the circumstances. Those regulations were written in blood, miscarriage/birth defects, autoimmune conditions, genetic damage, and other horrors. This is a complicated ethical topic because clinical trials can harm patients and families of patients as much as they can help, and sometimes many years after the fact of the trial. It's not an appropriate discussion in a memorial post.
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#65A black bar might be in order.-
Niklaus Wirth didn't get one
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#66Cheers and good journey to a bonafide hacker.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a complicated subject. Because those rules are in place for reasons. And some of those reasons are to prevent drug companies from turning the poor into lab rats with no regard to their safety. And I guarantee you, you let "terminal" patients skirt rules, there will be a hell of a lot more "terminal" patients. And I'm sure there are some non-regulation reasons to limit various therapies. They are trying to see…
> But I don't think the answer is let terminal patients take whatever they feel like. I don't think anyone has the moral authority to tell anyone else what they can take, especially terminal patients. I do, however think governments have a responsibility to regulate how drug companies conduct trials so as to minimize harm to patients. This probably has the same outcome in practice, but I find the moral distinction im…
> I don't think anyone has the moral authority to tell anyone else what they can take, especially terminal patients
Yet euthanasia is a very fraught subject in the land of the free. The country may be coming less religious, but the puritanical values remain; every life is precious, even one that's in unbearable, irreversible agony, and those who suffer probably deserve it.
Re: Jake Seliger has died
#68Confirmed by his brother on his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-fight-against-cancer-wit... May he rest in peace.
His brother also posted a comment, https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/04/starting-hospice-the-end/... , about his brother's death - slightly different wording than the GoFundMe update.
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#69Honest question: Does this rate a black bar? I know that he wasn't a big deal, outside this community, but within HN, his posts were kinda awesome (and heartbreaking).
Yes, it's since been added.
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