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From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Re: Deb Geisler -- 1957-2024
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:16:17 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: United Individualist
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Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>> Thanks for posting this.  Far too many people in fandom just
>> disappear, and we never find out what happened to them.  Many are
>> alive and well, but somehow got the idea that Usenet had died.

> The Glasgow Worldcon has posted and is maintaining a list of people
> in fandom who have died since July 22, 2013.

> https://glasgow2024.org/for-members/in-memoriam/

Thanks.  But that just raises (I know better than to say "begs") the
question, how do *they* find out?  If I were to die tomorrow, I don't
think anyone would report my death to them.  If you were to die
tomorrow, would anyone report your death to them?  It would obviously
have to be someone who knew you were dead, so it couldn't be me.

Similarly with any fan who isn't living with a fan.  Or who had
dropped out of fandom.

When I was WSFA's secretary/archivist/historian/webmaster, I had great
difficulty trying to figure out if any founding members were still
alive.  All I knew for sure was that none of them had been active in
the club for many years.  The answer appeared to be no, but with one
of them whose email address I found, I got a reply that they had just
died last week.
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Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.