# Helena has passed on **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439 "2023-11-01T20:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/1 "2023-11-01T20:51:33Z")
Per her friend **Cow Princess,** posted on the Raffe, longtime member of both these boards **Helena** ( **Helena330** here) has died. This was not unexpected, as she had a recurrence of cancer and has been in hospice care for a while now. She had to put her kitteh Twig down recently due to illness and I think that took a lot out of her. She was a kind and sweet soul and she will be sorely missed. Blessed be, dear, our love goes with you. > **[Helena has passed away - The Giraffe Boards](https://www.giraffeboards.com/showthread.php?t=60543)** > > Helena has passed away General Blah Blah ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/2 "2023-11-01T21:13:02Z")
I don’t know why this is such a shock when she told us it was coming. I am heartbroken. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/3 "2023-11-01T21:18:29Z")
Same here–knowing it was coming doesn’t seem to have blunted the grief one bit. I’m going to miss her something awful. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/4 "2023-11-01T21:20:27Z")
Very sorry to hear this. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/5 "2023-11-01T21:55:22Z")
I’m going to miss her, she was always so pleasant. We all knew it was coming but it still hits hard. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/6 "2023-11-01T21:57:38Z")
She was a lovely, sensitive, kind person. I always enjoyed reading her posts and appreciated her gentle nature. I will miss her. Rest in peace, dear lady. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/7 "2023-11-01T23:58:38Z")
That’s so sad. She seemed like someone whose values, and heart, were in the right place. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/8 "2023-11-02T01:24:34Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > She had to put her kitteh Twig down recently due to illness and I think that took a lot out of her. That will do it. I’m sorry. 🙁 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/9 "2023-11-02T02:26:08Z")
Oh, fuck no. Oh man, I really liked her. Jesus this really hurts. RIP Helena. You were a good soul. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/10 "2023-11-02T05:22:59Z")
She was so sweet. We are all better off for having known her. Thank you @Helena330 for touching us in your special ways. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/11 "2023-11-02T17:56:50Z")
So sad. She was a friend and a kind person. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/12 "2023-11-02T18:18:11Z")
I’m so sorry to learn this. She was a kind person, and I’ll miss reading her posts. ---
**Author:** ![TXRebel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@TXRebel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TXRebel)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/13 "2023-11-02T21:05:19Z")
❤ From me to her. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/14 "2023-11-02T21:26:57Z")
This is sad. RIP, Helena. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/15 "2023-11-02T23:19:57Z")
I am so sorry. And I’m sorry that she had to lose Twig first; though I don’t know whether it was any comfort to her that Twig wouldn’t have to be without her. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/16 "2023-11-03T01:24:37Z")
It was a situation where the choice was surgery/recovery and euth and Twig wasn’t super old but it would have been a lot for her to suffer and a lot for Helena and her mom to nurse her through. I’m feeling bad that her mom has absolutely no one in the house to take comfort with. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/17 "2023-11-03T14:04:13Z")
I remember her. She was a good poster and a good person and the board and the world are worse off without her. ---
**Author:** ![CowPrincess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@CowPrincess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CowPrincess)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/18 "2023-11-07T12:36:03Z")
I honestly think she fought to hold on long enough to make certain that Twig was no longer suffering, and to be there with her mom so they could grieve together. And having met that personal goal, she felt she could move on to the next level 💔 ---
**Author:** ![CowPrincess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@CowPrincess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CowPrincess)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/19 "2023-11-07T12:36:59Z")
I honestly think she fought to hold on long enough to make certain that Twig was no longer suffering, and to be there with her mom so they could grieve together. And having met that personal goal, she felt she could move on to the next level 💔 ---
**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:** [November 7, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439/20 "2023-11-07T14:56:16Z")
I know that I lost a much-beloved cat, at age 17, while at the same time trying to sort out what type of procedure to have to partially deal with a heart condition in myself. And that it was a comfort to me that, whatever then happened to me (I’m more or less OK now for a while), at least I had lasted long enough to last her out – it felt, and feels, like bringing her in safe, somehow. The current creatures are all more adaptable to other humans and probably to other places. The Cat With The Loud Purr only fully trusted me; and had never, since she was four months old, lived anywhere else. Now she will never have to. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helena-has-passed-on/992439.md?page=2)