# Salute to my deceased friend **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 9, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619 "2016-04-09T03:36:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619/1 "2016-04-09T03:36:02Z")
Man, you were a really good dude. Everybody says so. I wish you were still around. Unfortunately you let your weight creep up to where you looked like a giant 500lb lollipop. Everybody said you should take steps to get it in shape, but you just kept escalating it. Finally you went in for corrective surgery but then you had 4 simultaneous organ system failures. Which, Ghod bless modern science, they could have fixed, but one of them happened to be cancerous, and then you were all done. So you died 20 years before you should have, leaving behind a wife and 7 year-old-daughter. I wish you hadn’t. I can’t pretend to know what it’s like to deal with a health condition like that, but we all saw this coming for a decade, you know? There are surgeries to mitigate this kind of thing, you know? I don’t know what was in your head, but why did it have to get to this irreversable point? Anyway, peace unto you in the next world. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619/2 "2016-04-09T21:24:04Z")
I don’t know if this helps, but Orwell once said, “[To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.](http://orwell.ru/library/articles/nose/english/e_nose)” May your friend rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619/3 "2016-04-10T03:00:02Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > I don’t know if this helps, but Orwell once said, “[To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.](http://orwell.ru/library/articles/nose/english/e_nose)” > May your friend rest in peace. Thanks for that. I’m a big fan of Orwell’s essays, always glad for a new sample. I’m sad my friend died and angry that it was preventable (as I see it), but my OP was totally asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619/4 "2016-04-10T03:39:25Z")
I’m sorry for your loss, and especially the regret that comes with knowing it was preventable. I hope you make your peace with it and enjoy your memories of him. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619/5 "2016-04-10T09:13:09Z")
That’s not much of a “salute.” ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619/6 "2016-04-10T11:23:08Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > That’s not much of a “salute.” Not to mention the whole pot and kettle being black thing. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619/7 "2016-04-10T12:19:33Z")
**panache45** and **Emiliana** , the OP knows. Read his second post in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salute-to-my-deceased-friend/751619/8 "2016-04-10T21:52:31Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **panache45** and **Emiliana** , the OP knows. Read his second post in the thread. I know he knows. He posts stuff like this when he’s drunk. Like his friend, he’s got himself a condition that will contribute to an early death, and I’m sure it’s frustrating to all who love him that he, too, is unable or unwilling to do anything about it.