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Really well done, Steve. I'm glad John joined this community, and glad you helped make The Strain.

motorbike guy wrote:I am all misted up againYou're hardly alone there, there's a sodden wad of tissues next to the laptop after I suggested my girlfriend might like to read it a few minutes ago. A beautiful and genuinely moving tribute. I've not been able to put it out of my mind since reading it first thing this morning.

This is great Steve. A fitting memorial for a crucial dude.Well fucking said.

Thanks, I enjoyed reading this remembrance of John's life and his intention 'to live his life as though he was not dying', something that isn't always possible at the best of times. It was the first tribute I've ever read that left me hungry.

'Nuff said. So beautiful.

This is great. Thank you for writing it, Steve.

thanks steve. thanks for being receptive to john and the greatness within him, and thanks for being articulate enough to express what you saw. and thanks to John for being such a bad ass, and coming here and letting us know him just a little bit before it was time to go. the courage of that man, the fucking balls of that man not to curl in a ball and whine about how its not fair. here it is 8:45am on a Sunday and I am all misted up again.

I have so much to say, and, yet, I have no clue what to say.I started reading John's story, here, on the PRF, shortly before my own diagnosis. His attitude and honesty resonated with my deep conviction of how I had to confront my own cancer, and deal with treatment. Even, as, at times, it seemed reckless, and frightening to my family and friends. His encouragement both on Facebook, where we became Friends just a few weeks before he passed, and here, through posting on the Cancer thread, encouraged me to not let Cancer take away my most cherished activities, those I felt had made me who I am.And, Steve, the gesture that you, Todd, and Bob, made towards me and my wife, while I lay in the ICU, on the middle of your West Coast tour, reinforced that same conviction. While those closest to me feared I would die, I KNEW that I'd come to far to let this beat me.Thank you for posting this. It's as beautiful, and honest a tribute, as John deserved.And Thank You, for continuing (this Tribute is proof of it), to be the example of honesty, integrity, humility, and humanity, that Punk Rock told us it was supposed to be about.

Very well written and captures what PRF found most special about him. Never got to meet John but he definitely sets an example to remind us to push against our own walls and create something.I don't think it needs anything else.

Nice memorial Steve.I especially appreciate that you contacted his family for their blessing.That is a class move.