I'm sorry about this loss that occured with a rather admirable person.

I'm sorry for the loss of your friend, and such a wondeful sounding person to have in a neighborhood, anywhere. Good job writing the story about him, I would think he would have been pleased with it.

Thank you for such a beautiful job and for doing that man justice.

A wonderful tribute to Stuart Thayer and it helps to bring a small bit of meaning to a senseless event. How very sad! It's so ironic that someone who has lived through so many crises of one sort and another so heroically would die in this very random way. It does say something about how thin a line there is between life and death. We never really know when the grim reaper is going to strike and it could be at any moment. The message is to live your life fully and honestly and with gratitude every minute of the day as it seems Stuart did.

Philip,
Once again I see what a terrific writer you are. Thank you for sharing this story with us.
Sherry

Thanks for the story. He deserved it. I have had the terrible task of conducting neuropsych assessments on older adults, as dementia creeps in. Terrible because I have had to tell an older person, plus at least one other family member, plus note it in my report for the chart, that the person could no longer drive due to cognitive "inflexibility," or some other terms or descritptions as accurate, and substantiated, as could be. It is heartwrenching to tell someone of great accomplishment that they must not drive anymore. you break a grown man to tears. But it must be done. If anyone believes that a family member no longer has the mental quickness or judgment, plus reaction time, to safely drive, please go get some kind of decent professional neuropsych assessment. Or, lobby for mandatory testing of elders at a certain age and older. The life you save will be deserving. Someone like Thayer.