I’m sending it to them, and hopefully they will take some comfort in reading these thoughts.
Oh, that is such terrible news. I knew him as a big contributor to the high quality of this community, and it looks like he was so also to those around him IRL. May the light eternal shine upon him.
Got to say as well, that was some fine obit writing there.
Thanks for conveying this, needscoffee.
Add me to the long list of those paying respects. A fine poster, educated man and insightful poster. I hope he has gone to a better place. Perhaps Canada?
Always enjoyed his views and responses. And now his watch has ended.
Oh, great. Now we can’t say anything!
Seriously, I always liked reading TriPolar’s posts… even if I did always shorten his name in my head to ‘Trip’.
Ugh. Crap.
RIP TriPolar. You’ll be missed here.
The Sand has run out in the hourglass.
You will be missed, Ed.
RIP Ed.. I always valued his contributions here. He lived a good life.
So sorry to hear of this. Condolences to Ed’s family.
I know that I will miss TriPolar. My thoughts are with Ed’s family.
While we never engaged much I almost always enjoyed his contributions to the SDMB.
This is very sad and I will miss him.
Condolences to his family and friends. He seemed a really great guy.
God dammit
TriPolar’s posts were very interesting. I will miss his contributions to the board.
I’m going to miss coming across one of his posts and calling him Trip in my head.
Thank you for doing that!
Aww. 
So sorry to read this…condolences to his loved ones. I know he’ll be missed on- and offline.
Rest in peace, Ed.
Oh man, this is such horrible news. RIP, Ed.
Add in one more person who will miss TriPolar. His voice was an asset to this board. .