# OMG, y'all. Mike Warns @dropzone passed away suddenly (2022-May-22) - GoFundMe link now set up **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904 "2022-05-22T22:19:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/102 "2022-05-24T05:16:50Z")
Such sad news. I always enjoyed him and his posts. RIP. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2022, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/103 "2022-05-24T05:39:36Z")
There is a lot of sad news in this thread and I feel sorrow and dismay for all of it, but in particular, my condolences go out to **Beckdawreck** , who had a special relationship with **dropzone**. I’m sorry for your loss, Beck. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2022, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/104 "2022-05-24T05:42:55Z")
He was such a good friend. Terribly funny and quirky. I will miss him. I already do. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2022, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/105 "2022-05-24T11:04:21Z")
Sad news. RIP Mike. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/106 "2022-05-24T11:10:22Z")
My condolences to his family. May he rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/107 "2022-05-24T13:59:04Z")
I’m so sorry to hear this - he’d been on the Boards so long he was practically an institution. I’m so sorry for your loss, **Beck** , and all others whose lives he touched. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/108 "2022-05-24T14:32:33Z")
Awwwww… dammit 😢 He’d been so unwell for so long, but I know we were all pulling for him to get better. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/109 "2022-05-24T14:41:55Z")
I already posted my feelings about why Dropzone was awesome and will be missed, but wanted to mention two more things. One, another heap of hugs for @Beckdawrek, who outside of Mike’s immediate family is the most directly affected. Two, a big thank you to all the general lurkers who may not post frequently, but took the time to do so for this news. I hope one day one of the dropzonelings will scan through the SDMB and see yet another side of Mike and the love he received here. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/110 "2022-05-24T17:47:02Z")
This is so sad. Condolences to everyone. He obviously touched a lot of us. I’d be more than willing to donate to a fund either in his memory or to help his family. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/111 "2022-05-24T18:06:38Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > One, another heap of hugs for @Beckdawrek, who outside of Mike’s immediate family is the most directly affected. Very, very true. I think it’s safe to say that many Dopers’ lives have been directly affected by other posters… but Mike SAVED BECK’S LIFE. From another state. I think Mike wins. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/112 "2022-05-24T18:24:31Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > I think Mike wins. You know @Dropzone was awesome when he wins the thread from the Afterlife. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/113 "2022-05-24T20:31:35Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > but Mike SAVED BECK’S LIFE. From another state. Exactly what happened? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/114 "2022-05-24T20:56:44Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Exactly what happened? Can’t find the thread right now, but IIRC, they were chatting online, and he thought she sounded really, really off. He tracked down the town she lived in, and got hold of the sheriff’s office or something, and they did a welfare check. Turns out her blood sugar had spiked (or crashed?). I think she was home alone at the time. Aha! Found it!! Helps when I don’t put an extra ‘c’ before that final ‘k’… > [@Beckdawrek is bad, bad, bad and nearly dies. (Or how a Doper saved my life)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-is-bad-bad-bad-and-nearly-dies-or-how-a-doper-saved-my-life/831953?page=4): > > Last night was a bad, bad, bad night. No sleep. This morning my sugar crashed, like it hasn’t done in many moons. I was not completely In a coma, YET. In the nick of time my DIL got here. Got glucose into me. She knew to come because a Doper I am friends with called the Sheriffs office in my county and they called her. The deputy still came out and questioned me to make sure I was okay. Thanks to the SDMB and one particular Doper, I’m alive and posting. I’m going in to the clinic tomarrow and h… ---
**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:** [May 25, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/115 "2022-05-25T01:08:39Z")
Mikey was very concerned about my ghost room at my house. He often told me not to make enemies of the spirits living, therein. Which I’ve never done. I have had a few hair raising (literally my hair feeling weird) moments as I go by the door. I’m not brave enough to go in and sit, yet. But I will. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/116 "2022-05-25T04:57:17Z")
It’s sounds like both Mike and the disabled daughter could have both been on Medicaid and if Dopers provide $3,000 to $4,000 or whatever the state could possibly try to claim it for past bills. Thus I am thinking Dopers could set up a Gofundme with a Doper as an administrator. I think most of us would be willing to volunteer Beck as that administrator. Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/117 "2022-05-25T05:38:28Z")
Thanks to whoever posted this on Facebook as well. I had hoped to someday read that dropzone would be sprung from the medical facility. I’m sorry that it ended this way. My condolences to his daughter and @Beckdawrek, both of whom are probably a bit more wrecked than not. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/118 "2022-05-25T06:13:53Z")
It’s never easy when a Doper passes, but it’s doubly difficult in Dropzone’s case. Not only did he help @Beckdawrek in her time of need, he kept us posted as to how she was doing. Plus, he always had something to contribute to discussions. Rest well, Dropzone. You’ve earned it. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/119 "2022-05-25T08:33:39Z")
This sucks. My condolences to everyone here, especially @Beckdawrek. Lots of love from the other side of the pond. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/120 "2022-05-26T16:41:36Z")
The : gofund info is- > **[In memory of Mike aka Dropzone, organized by Mary Warns](https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-obtain-a-new-vehicle?utm_campaign=p_cf%2Bshare-flow-1&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer)** > > My name is Mary, I'm Mike's oldest daughter. He died very unexpectedly on May 11. Thankfull… Mary Warns needs your support for In memory of Mike aka Dropzone Y’all add a few dollars for the girls. Thank you. B. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904/121 "2022-05-26T17:04:50Z")
Thanks, Beck! Just dropped my coins in the bucket. Hope it helps the girls. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-yall-mike-warns-dropzone-passed-away-suddenly-2022-may-22-gofundme-link-now-set-up/964904.md?page=7)