# Guinastasia has passed away **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2023, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310 "2023-03-18T03:53:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/61 "2023-03-18T16:41:00Z")
Sad to hear this. I remember her from the old days of the SDMB. RIP Guin. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/62 "2023-03-18T17:30:30Z")
Hey, I remember you from the vBulletin days! When I found out, it was important to me to let others know. Especially here, where she had such a presence. I don’t even know where else she may have been active. Her family might not even know. > [@Broomstick](#): > > Too many prolific posters have simply stopped posting and we never know why ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/63 "2023-03-18T17:31:37Z")
Damn. Very much too bad. She apparently last posted on March 9. @av8rmike, thanks very much for letting us know. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/64 "2023-03-18T17:34:06Z")
Sad news 😢 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/65 "2023-03-18T17:57:43Z")
Shocked and saddened. I remember giving her a hard time in a few threads many years ago, and now I feel bad about it. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/66 "2023-03-18T18:01:33Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > She apparently last posted on March 9. Yes. And on March 6, [she recommended we visit Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor in Pittsburgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-pittsburgh-for-a-few-days-tell-me-where-to-go-and-what-to-do/980754/22). We will definitely do that in memory of her. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/67 "2023-03-18T18:16:34Z")
Her last post on the Giraffe Boards was on the evening of March 11th about her cats and celebrating a Penguins win. There were few things that she loved more. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/68 "2023-03-18T19:08:40Z")
I’m so sorry to read this. She was a mainstay here and at GB. An iconic poster if there ever was one. May her memory be for a blessing. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/69 "2023-03-18T19:14:35Z")
This is terrible news indeed. I remember interacting with her fondly early on here, and on the Giraffeboards. I know there’s a saddened shock for her biological family, but I wish there was a term for the same sad shock for her Internet family. Tripler Whatever that word is, I’m feeling it now. . . 😢 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/70 "2023-03-18T19:16:10Z")
Goodbye Guin. You were a class act. I’m really gonna miss seeing your posts. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/71 "2023-03-18T19:23:07Z")
Wow. This place will never be the same. Peace to her. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/72 "2023-03-18T19:29:54Z")
I can’t begin to process this. She loved her cats and her NHL team, the Penguins. I’ll root for the Pens for you, **Guin**. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/73 "2023-03-18T19:38:01Z")
How can this be? She was just here! Truly stunned and saddened to hear this. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/74 "2023-03-18T19:43:38Z")
I wish I’d seen this earlier - I’m waiting for my flight gone from a conference in Pittsburgh and I’d have made a stop. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/75 "2023-03-18T20:01:22Z")
Shocked and saddened. So young! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/76 "2023-03-18T20:07:15Z")
Another person who really helped define the Board’s personality. My sympathies to her family. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/77 "2023-03-18T20:08:22Z")
Such a sad loss, my condolences to all who knew and loved her. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/78 "2023-03-18T20:33:51Z")
After I left the boards for a number of years, I returned wondering what I would find. One of the first things I saw was one of her posts and I smiled, knowing that some things never change. Until now. Rest in peace, Guin. It was a fun 20-something years. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/79 "2023-03-18T20:39:30Z")
😭 😢 RIP ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310/80 "2023-03-18T20:48:45Z")
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