Oh boy. I just now saw this topic for the first time. Being a newbie on this board, I didn’t really know him, but I do want to say I’m sorry. 
Sounds like he was a great person… Geez, for once I don’t really know what to say.
This is awful – I always looked out for his posts, and not just because of his great name. Maybe that’s not a very good measure of a man, but it’s true nonetheless.
–Cliffy
I have the go-ahead to plan a memorial plaque for Scott to be placed at the store he managed for over nine years. He considered his employees, and most of all his employer and wife, as family… and I think this will be a fitting memorial for him.
If you want to contribute, please email me at Scotticher@aol.com.
Also, if you were touched by Scott’s loving heart please follow the link thoughtfully provided by OpalCat and enter your thoughts and appreciation for him there. I know that more of you loved him than have responded, and I would like to have a wonderful memorial to print out and give to his family.
Once again, thank you all for your prayers and your loving thoughts and appreciation for the wonderful person who was our friend Scott.
Cheri
I don’t come 'round here often anymore. But it’s Dopers like poohpah whose posts never have allowed me to fully kick my SDMB habit.
My condolences to everyone who loved him. From the looks of it, that’s everyone here.
How awful! I’m so sorry this happened.
Poohpah was a stand-up Doper and sounds like a helluva guy. We’ll miss him.
‘And as he spoke his spirit left him and flitted away down to Hades, weeping for the youth and manhood it must leave’, Illiad, Book XVI, Book XXII
My sincere sympathies to all who had poopah touch their lives.
It’s ironic that Scott made me so much the man that I am, being that he was my younger brother. But he was so full of wit that it was hard to be around him and not have some of it rub off me. He was a man of such intellect, creativity, and compassion that he seemed to make a real difference in all the lives he touched. In his younger days, his apartments were chocked full of items of seemingly dubious value, which today would probably garner a tiny fortune on ebay. I’ve mentioned that he was buying McDonald’s Happy Meals way before it was fashionable for grown men to buy them. And, he introduced me to Cecil Adams The Straight Dope books (as well as books by David Feldman) long before he ever surfed the Web. The absence of his voice is deafening, but I’m glad to see how others appreciated him. Thank you for being a part of his life.
Welcome aboard, Kickapoo, even in these horrible circumstances. My thoughts are with you and your family.
Welcome ** Kickapoo ** , Thank you for coming and sharing a bit more of Scott with us. He is missed around here.
When you are able to, please consider hanging out with us. Maybe we all can be a comfort to each other.
Welcome to the SDMB, Kickapoo. My most heartfelt condolences to you and your family.
This just leaves me asking WTF?!?
Such a freakish ending … it just isn’t right. In my world, at least.
Dear ** Kickapoo **, I am SO glad you were able to join us and read this thread. Scott was such a loving friend to so many of us here…he will be missed SO MUCH and I hope it helps at least a little to know how much he was and is appreciated.
I, also, hope that you will stop by our community sometime.
My prayers and love go out to you and your family.
Much Love,
Cheri
Larry, (Kickapoo), I’m so glad to see that you followed the links Thomas and I gave you and came to read this thread. I hope that it’s given you some comfort, knowing how well thought-of your brother was and how many lives he touched. I hope you’ll come back and spend some time with us, exploring some of the other forums and getting to know some of the friends Scott made here – it’d be great to have you around.
That article about the accident sure left us all with a lot of questions… some of which I can now shed some light on (and correct some huge errors that were reported). First of all, the railing along the bridge wasn’t 4 foot high, as reported, but closer to 3, which means that Scott wouldn’t have had to “climb” up on it to sit (and he may not even have been sitting on it – more below). Secondly, the distance to the creek bed was only 40 feet, not 80.
Although I haven’t yet been able to learn the results of the autopsy report, the highway patrol officer on the scene said that evidence obtained in the preliminary investigation leads them to conclude that Scott’s death wasn’t necessarily caused by the fall. He believes that he died due to a medical reason of some sort. Knowing about his diabetes, it certainly makes sense. The officer thinks that the exertion of changing the tire may have caused Scott to suffer some sort of insulin drop or spike or something. He may have been trying to balance his blood sugar or insulin by drinking a soda, which was sitting by the tire he’d just changed. It’s possible – even likely – that he either passed out or had a stroke or heart attack, and, as he collapsed, because his center of gravity was higher than the height of the railing, he simply fell over it.
It’s still a bit of a freak accident – however, knowing that a heart attack or stroke would’ve caused his death even if he hadn’t been standing anywhere near that bridge, is somewhat more comforting than thinking that a he foolishly hoisted himself up on a bridge overpass and lost his balance and fell to his death.
His family gave out little packets of flower seeds at the memorial service, and Thomas and I took home a packet for ourselves and one for Scotticher and we’ll be planting them in his memory, so “each flower [will] be a perpetual reminder of the joy, color and happiness Scott brought into this world”. Thomas and I also signed the guest book with our condolences on behalf of everyone at the SDMB.
Thank you for the update, Shayna.
What a beautiful way of remembering someone cherished.
I think a proper period of mourning has been reached. I’m going to “unstick” this thread and allow it to slip down the page.