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Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by Mz »

I don't have money to give but it pains me to see stories like this. I think there is more that can be done to prevent this type of suffering (though I don't know much about cancer per se). I have a different serious medical condition, as does my oldest son. We have figured out how to get well. What I can't seem to figure out is how to constructively share info on what we did. Any suggestions?

(Please consider emailing me. I am not trying to derail this discussion. It is just that I have spent years talking about this and I am usually pilloried. It is very frustrating.)

Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by agumonkey »

donohoe wrote: post #24
radicalbyte wrote: post #19

Just read his series of post over his ordeal. He really has had a rough time. Guys (and gals) of HN, let see if our little community can get to together to help Richard enjoy his last days (and maybe provide a bit for his family if we do really well). Most of us can miss $20, and Richard and his family need it more than must of us do..

Done - and anyone else reading this should do. It takes seconds and you won't even miss the 3 lattes it could buy you.

Good way to word it.

Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by blinkingled »

radicalbyte wrote: post #19

Just read his series of post over his ordeal. He really has had a rough time. Guys (and gals) of HN, let see if our little community can get to together to help Richard enjoy his last days (and maybe provide a bit for his family if we do really well). Most of us can miss $20, and Richard and his family need it more than must of us do..

Done - anyone else wondering, it's very easy, so please just do it if you can afford it and hopefully it will help him in big or small way.

Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by joshmn »

bestham wrote: post #9

It's so sad that the country where Richard lived, worked and paid taxes for about 30 years can't provide for him. I'm glad to be able to help. But what happens to those that don't reach the front page of HN? No one enduring the stress of a terminal cancer should have to stress about getting ends to meet during their last months alive. EVER

My family is one of them (stressing about getting ends to meet).

My momma, 55, otherwise ridiculously healthy, has terminal brain cancer among other things. She was diagnosed five days before her 55th birthday (10/25) this year -- [seemingly] out of the blue.

While her and my father have insurance (through United Health Group), there's no smooth sailing because her treatments are so "specialized".

I, at 22, cleaned out my savings and checking just to make sure that her treatments will be paid for, and additionally hire a wicked-awesome in-home PCA to make sure that she's living comfortably when I'm not able to be there.

I won't get into the logistics of why my father / her husband won't pay for things.

Never been so proud to eat Ramen Noodles.

Edit: you guys make me tear up. Thanks for the support and kind words.

Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by incision »

Markinhos wrote: post #30

I am really sad for this guy... Can someone explain to me why is he asking for donations? Doesn't the insurances cover with these expenses in USA?

>"Doesn't the insurances cover with these expenses in USA?"

Insurance companies are like ISPs. You're fine until your usage pattern significantly exceeds the average.

At that point, the insurer will do any and everything in their power to drop your coverage and/or hasten your demise by denying or delaying treatment.

On a related note, this is why some of the people who are unable to keep their misleadingly cheap plans post-ACA should actually be happy. They would simply have been dropped anyway - when they actually needed that coverage.

Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by espeed »

PetrolMan wrote: post #8
HackyGeeky wrote: post #6

True - I missed the donation button the right on the first pass as well. Sent. Take care bud..

This definitely deserves a little more visibility than HN alone.

A few weeks ago we started an organization called Capacity 2 Care (http://cap2care.org) for situations just like this -- it's in the early stages so we only have a few hundred members at this point, but I posted it to the Facebook group to see what we can do...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cap2care/

Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by agumonkey »

jmadsen wrote: post #52
agumonkey wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I gave less than the average here so went for a second round this time with your HN pseudo mentioned.

thank you!

you're welcome, the more names, the more love

Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by jcromartie »

bestham wrote: post #9

It's so sad that the country where Richard lived, worked and paid taxes for about 30 years can't provide for him. I'm glad to be able to help. But what happens to those that don't reach the front page of HN? No one enduring the stress of a terminal cancer should have to stress about getting ends to meet during their last months alive. EVER

There are homeless people out there with cancer who will die alone and without a hope in the world.

Re: Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

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Post by vezzy-fnord »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #60
mildtrepidation wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Normally I'd jump in on the practicality bandwagon, but this really is not constructive. People who are going to pray will; people who are going to donate will. Your denigration of their faith, justified or not (and we'll never really know until we die), helps no one, particularly in this context.

Nobody's denigrating his faith, as much as his transparent attempt to leverage it for social credibility by advertising his piety on Hacker News while (evidently) doing nothing actually helpful. If that's not worthy of denigration, take it up with Jesus himself, who said pretty much the same thing.

Relevant verse:

"When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you…"

Matthew 6:5-6

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