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Fraser:
It is with great sadness that I must inform the Forum that member “Ultrapurple” passed away on Friday 18th March after a short period of illness. Ultrapurple’s true name was Giles and I considered him a friend. We met several times in person as he lived not far from my home. As an active member of this forum he will be known by many here. My thoughts are with his Wife and family.

Fraser
Zero999:
That's sad news. He was local to me: I also live in Bedfordshire.

Perhaps his profile should be change to sadly deceased, or is that too morbid?
MrMobodies:

--- Quote from: Ultrapurple on January 12, 2022, 09:33:53 am ---Interesting - though 6Mpix is quite a low resolution compared to some work that has been done (*cough* *cough*.)

I had a quick play with the three image stack, reprocessing the three colour images to greyscale and then using them as RGB to make one image.
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Sounds like he might have had breathing difficulties in his last post in February,

Well that's sad.


--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 19, 2022, 06:39:05 pm ---Perhaps his profile should be change to sadly deceased, or is that too morbid?
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Nice for future references but it does sound a bit morbid.
harerod:
Sorry to hear that news. My condolences to the family.

Quote from: Zero999 on Today at 19:39:05
...Perhaps his profile should be change to sadly deceased, or is that too morbid?
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Picking up Zero999's suggestion: if that were my account, I would be honored if the status were set to something neutral, like "inactive", and some additional info were given in the profile summary. Within the existing framework  "Location: deceased" might work.
Rick Law:

--- Quote from: harerod on March 19, 2022, 10:10:27 pm ---Sorry to hear that news. My condolences to the family.

Quote from: Zero999 on Today at 19:39:05
...Perhaps his profile should be change to sadly deceased, or is that too morbid?
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Picking up Zero999's suggestion: if that were my account, I would be honored if the status were set to something neutral, like "inactive", and some additional info were given in the profile summary. Within the existing framework  "Location: deceased" might work.

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First, my thoughts are with the family.  Too many leave too soon.  RIP.

I think location set to deceased is a good idea.  As to additional info, in the USA, obituary is regularly published on the web.  I am not sure about other countries.  In the obituary you have information put out by the deceased's own family so we know the family would not object to the quoting it.  If the person left a "good-bye post" knowing the end is imminent, quoting it or leaving that post up would be good.  If obituary or "good-bye posts" is not available, perhaps one should just say nothing more.  We can each miss the person in our own way -- they will now live in our minds.  RIP...
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