Post by paulgilmore on Apr 5, 2009 11:06:11 GMT -5
Hello, everyone,
I wanted to introduce myself beforehand as the brother of John Gilmore. I'm not very familiar with this board, or with you, but several months back, he was telling me and his family about this site. It is my sad duty to report that John Gilmore is no longer with us.
He passed on the night of January 9, 2009. The coroner told us that he died of cardiac arrest, after which he told us that it was very likely that the medications he was taking had killed him. He had mentioned this site briefly, and after he died, we tried searching for it, but it was elusive to us, until just this morning, when I stumbled across it accidentally.
We could tell how unhappy he was in life, and he had told us, time after time, that he was insecure and anxious about life in the future. That was pretty much all he ever talked about. My mother had always told him that he worries too much, and she became very impatient with him. In retrospect, however, if she had known about what the medication was doing to him internally, she might have made more of an effort to save him before it was too late.
Now that I am off my soapbox, I want to ask you what your opinion of him was. I want all of you to be open and honest, and don't hide your real feelings, whatever you do. We, as his family, have nothing against opinions, good or bad, because, frankly, we have been told worse than that during the course of his life, so we are pretty much used to it by now.
We would really appreciate anything you have to say.
You will be missed, John.
I wanted to introduce myself beforehand as the brother of John Gilmore. I'm not very familiar with this board, or with you, but several months back, he was telling me and his family about this site. It is my sad duty to report that John Gilmore is no longer with us.
He passed on the night of January 9, 2009. The coroner told us that he died of cardiac arrest, after which he told us that it was very likely that the medications he was taking had killed him. He had mentioned this site briefly, and after he died, we tried searching for it, but it was elusive to us, until just this morning, when I stumbled across it accidentally.
We could tell how unhappy he was in life, and he had told us, time after time, that he was insecure and anxious about life in the future. That was pretty much all he ever talked about. My mother had always told him that he worries too much, and she became very impatient with him. In retrospect, however, if she had known about what the medication was doing to him internally, she might have made more of an effort to save him before it was too late.
Now that I am off my soapbox, I want to ask you what your opinion of him was. I want all of you to be open and honest, and don't hide your real feelings, whatever you do. We, as his family, have nothing against opinions, good or bad, because, frankly, we have been told worse than that during the course of his life, so we are pretty much used to it by now.
We would really appreciate anything you have to say.
You will be missed, John.
