# For Sampiro: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656 "2006-08-21T21:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/21 "2006-08-22T03:47:14Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] Regardless of whether or not she was difficult, he loved his mother very much, as was very obvious by the past few posts he made regarding her. There’s no reason to malign the dead. [/QUOTE] I’m not maligning, I’m genuinely curious. I don’t recall ever seeing anything from Sampiro other than spleen-venting about his mother. Personally, I’m a little more pragmatic when it comes to poisonous relationships, so I’m just trying to understand. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/22 "2006-08-22T03:54:59Z")
A southern quote for this occasion: > [@](#): > > A brief candle; both ends burning > An endless mile; a bus wheel turning > A friend to share the lonesome times > A handshake and a sip of wine > So say it loud and let it ring > We are all a part of everything > The future, present and the past > Fly on proud bird > You’re free at last. > –written en route to the funeral for his friend, Ronnie Van Zant of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Gentle comfort to all the family ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/23 "2006-08-22T05:18:12Z")
I’m so sorry for your loss, **Sampiro**. ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/24 "2006-08-22T07:31:25Z")
Licentious Ectomorph, go read that link above. It’ll answer your questions. I’ve never read such an amazing tribute. Sampiro, my sympathy for your loss. Your mother was a helluva woman. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/25 "2006-08-22T10:08:47Z")
Y’all know about [the collection](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=384435), right? While it isn’t a direct help to **Sampiro** (or to my Dad, or my Grandfather, or any of my relatives on that side who’ve died from cancer, or my boss who died from cancer, or…), it is a way we can make a gift of life to others. Like my two aunts who have survived cancer: they wouldn’t have if it wasn’t for all the research that’s gone into it. Nobody lives forever - but people’s works remain. This is a way we can turn our work into “Sampiro’s Mom’s work”. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/26 "2006-08-22T11:25:02Z")
I read of Sampiro’s mum’s passing this morning before I headed off to work. Actually, it damned well made me late because I couldn’t stop the tears in time for the tramride. Funny how things happening a half a world away can do that to you, when you have grown to know and love people without regard for geographic or time boundaries. Such is the way of the SDMB and the community it has nurtured. **Sampiro** , vale to your mum, and courage to yourself during this time. And sympathies to your dad if he is there in the Pearly-Gates Welcoming Committee. 😉 Take care mate. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/27 "2006-08-22T13:22:00Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] Y’all know about [the collection](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=384435), right? While it isn’t a direct help to **Sampiro** (or to my Dad, or my Grandfather, or any of my relatives on that side who’ve died from cancer, or my boss who died from cancer, or…), it is a way we can make a gift of life to others. Like my two aunts who have survived cancer: they wouldn’t have if it wasn’t for all the research that’s gone into it. Nobody lives forever - but people’s works remain. This is a way we can turn our work into “Sampiro’s Mom’s work”. [/QUOTE] Thank you for linking that, **Nava**! I regret to say that I do not actually know **Sampiro**. I was one of many Dopers who had given my e-mail address to him long ago in hopes that he would send us some of his writing from time to time. He sent that essay yesterday to a group of us and requested that one of us would post it. Jon, you are very much in my thoughts at this time, as is your mother. Thank you for allowing us to “know” this amazing woman. I hope that your pain is eased in some small way by the support and good wishes offered by all of us who are affected by her passing. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/28 "2006-08-22T13:31:04Z")
I’m so sorry, Sampiro. So very, very sorry. May you and yours find comfort. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/29 "2006-08-22T15:04:47Z")
I’m so very sorry for your loss, Sampiro. Take care. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/30 "2006-08-22T16:08:22Z")
“Love never ends.” Please accept my condolences, **Sampiro**. Your mother sounds like a remarkable woman. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/31 "2006-08-22T17:21:59Z")
Sampiro, I feel like I’ve lost a family member. My sympathies to you. But your Mom will live forever in our happy memories and the joy of reading of all your postings. She might like that. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/32 "2006-08-22T17:29:53Z")
Oh, from hollow words we breathe, The wind blows through our sounds like a long faded whistle From a train that will not pass this way again. In remembrance of those who lit our path, What they give us Is all at once an eternity and a brief flicker in the short chaos That is a life. Much love to you, **Sampiro**. May mama have peace. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/33 "2006-08-22T19:15:18Z")
More words on a screen from someone you don’t “know” but who was moved by your love for your mother. Your descriptions of her made her real for me, and I mourned her passing. I am sorry for your loss, and you and your family are in my thoughts. Please, please, please continue to write about her. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/34 "2006-08-22T19:47:02Z")
Count me among those who were touched by your tribute. Your Mom was lucky to have a son like you. May she rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/35 "2006-08-22T23:35:31Z")
Vahalla, she is coming… get ready. Grant her Your rest & may Your Light perpetual shine upon her. Best wishes & prayers to Sampiro & his family. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/36 "2006-08-22T23:46:40Z")
You have my sincerest condolences on your loss. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/37 "2006-08-22T23:50:30Z")
My sincerest condolences on your loss. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/38 "2006-08-23T01:21:49Z")
I’m so sorry, **Sampiro**. What an amazing person she was. Now, you keep well - do enough eating, sleeping and all that, even in the midst of making family arrangements. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/39 "2006-08-23T09:02:36Z")
Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, – fair fame of one who has earned. Fair fame she has indeed, a remarkable woman whose character, strength, and integrity place her among the greats. I’m sorry for your loss. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656/40 "2006-08-23T16:15:04Z")
Jon, I really can’t say anything that hasn’t been said before, but please know that you have my sincerest condolences for your loss. The only thing that helped me when my mother died last year after a rather difficult couple of years was that she was finally able to stop her struggle to be there for us. Peace to you, my friend I’ve never met. Mike [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sampiro/369656.md?page=1)