James Van der beek died! 48 yo :(

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Anonymous wrote:I’m finding myself so upset by the comments here judging the family for putting out a go fund me. They must be in dire straights to have to do that. His wife is a widow with six young kids to raise alone. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

JVDB seemed like a kind person and a good soul. I wouldn’t wish his pain upon anybody - his illness or the pain he must have felt knowing he was leaving behind a big family and spending their savings in an attempt to save his life. I don’t understand how people can be so heartless.

Don’t they live on a multi-million dollar ranch?

If she sold and downsized to a normal home they probably come out ahead; I think its a hobby farm not an actual source of income?

He also has a $4M penthouse in BH as a rental?

Or did they sell it all for treatment — do they not have health insurance?

https://www.realestate.com.au/news/james-van-der-beeks-42m-fortune-secret-texas-ranch-revealed/?campaignType=external&campaignChannel=syndication&campaignName=ncacont&campaignContent=&campaignSource=gold_coast_bulletin&campaignPlacement=spa

$4M is not a whole lot of money. I’m sure there is a mortgage on it. They are reporting he spent down his fortune trying to save his life.

No, insurance doesn’t cover all treatments of your stay close to a treatment facility. My uncle lives in Jackson hole and he had to rent a house near his treatment.

He put out a very sad video about how much self worth he put into being a provider and great dad and he now was neither and he needs to love himself anyway.

I mean i understand its not never work again money, but it just feels odd giving that much money to someone with $2-3M in assets. The condo for example was bought for $1.9M, so they have at least $2M in equity, unless they refi for cash to pay medical treatments.


Did he really plough theough $3-$4M in treatment costs over the last few years? i wonder if they were scammed, it would be terrifying to leave your young family like this and susceptible to being taken advantage

His wife's earnings potential is not great and she has 6 young children to care for. $2 million invested reasonably conservatively will generate about $40k-$50k per year. How far do you think that goes for a family of 7? If she chips away at the principle, she probably doesn't have enough to send them to college. And then she's entering late middle age with no retirement savings.

This thread is full of very dim people.

They go to college free with that many kids and low income. Just saying. And what makes you think they all want college. Did James attend, or mom?

Nobody goes to college for free.

Maybe nobody you know. However, plenty of people go to college free via scholarships and grants.

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I don’t understand how someone with six children and an unemployed wife would not carry sufficient life insurance for that one time they are killed when their car is run into a barrier wall.

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His last video on Instagram is so heartbreaking. He looks so sick and yet is so full of hope that he would have a fresh start in March.

I wish they would’ve found it sooner and then been able to beat it. Just so unfair.

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I find it hard to have sympathy for someone like Van der Beek who was a full throated supporter of politicians, like Trump, who actively make healthcare less affordable.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what exactly his 'I thought it was the coffee" symptom was?

No one can answer this with any degree of certainty. But I took it to mean, he was having diarrhea/ cramping/ bloating, or possibly even blood in the stool although I can't think most people would automatically jump to that being from coffee.

You get blood in the stool from someone who simply said “I thought it was the coffee”???

No, I get it from the fact that it's a well known , heavily documented sign of colon cancer and he said he was having bowel troubles and initially blamed coffee or creamer for them. The part about the creamer is what made me think maybe he saw blood- and assumed he was developing a milk allergy. But not everyone has a high degree of medical literacy. Everyone knows coffee can cause GI symtpoms and bowel changes. So when faced with GI symptoms and bowel changes, if that person has recently been drinking more coffee, it is not that surprising for them to think "i wonder if it is all the extra coffee". Chill.

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His wife is an avid anti-vaxxer, it absolutely makes me wonder if he carried medical insurance and if so, if he tried chemo vs different therapies. Or waited too long to try chemo. This is just a fact. You all are pouring millions into his widow's hands, for the sake of her children, and she won't even protect her children against deadly illnesses.

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Anonymous wrote:This is typically a beatable cancer. (I’m a colon cancer survivor).
Get your colonoscopy. Follow your med team’s recommendations of gold standard treatment.

He chose to treat the cancer “holistically” and tried “a bunch of different things”.
It’s 100% his choice and decision. But others should not take a stage 3 colorectal cancer diagnosis as a death sentence. Statistically it’s a beatable cancer dx.

Wait what? He didn't treat it and he could have lived is that what you're saying?

NP- This person is lying. He did go through regular treatment.

Please show me the source for this because all I could find was that he would not disclose what treatment he was getting but that he said a vague "we have tried lots of things". And I am not judging that decision to keep things as private as he could, but it absolutely changes the discussion about why his family might need multiple millions through a go fund me to help with his unpaid medical bills, his kids education, and to keep their home.

He said "If you've heard about it, I've probably touched on it," so it would be bizarre to assume he skipped the most common treatments.

In any case the discussion people want to have is really not about need but about whether they feel his widow and kids deserve the money: he didn't do the right treatments so they don't deserve money, they're too rich so don't deserve money, they didn't plan well enough so they don't deserve money...It's a terrible discussion because whether they get money or not hurts absolutely no one (you certainly don't have to donate!) and getting money will help these innocent kids who lost their dad.

You know what? I clicked on his GoFundMe and then clicked to show other medical GoFundMes and saw children who were intubated, or bald from chemo, whose go fund mes were under 10k dollars raised. If you only want to help healthy children who have lost their parents, there are hundreds and hundreds of those on their too, all with less than 10k raised. If people want to help children who really, truly need help- start there. Is my unsolicited advice.

How much did YOU donate to them? Lead by example, otherwise go away.

I donated nothing to anybody, I only donate to Go Fund Mes of people who I know. My advice was to people who are interested in donating to Go Fund Mes of strangers, such as the people who have donated millions towards a very successful actor's estate. If someone doesn't have a problem with giving money to strangers through an online platform with their credit card, I'm just suggesting other avenues where they can help people who have MANY fewer resources. If they care.

Just cheap words then. Nobody asked for your advice, they know how to spend their money.

They sure do- they are spending it to give money to a household name famous actor's widow, to the tune of millions of dollars. And that's their choice. And it's not that I don't think his children deserve support and love. It just makes me sick that people will think these specific children need their 20 dollars, and they will bypass other children on the exact same platform- one click away!!- who are homeless and hospitalized with terminal illness. That's the state of our country.

And I donate plenty of money to people in need- both through local charities and organizations, and to individuals, directly, who are in my community. I just do not like Go Fund Me, especially when people unfortunately can scam the system. But if people like it and use it? Fine! Great! Maybe think to yourself if there are children who are SLIGHTLY more in need of that 20 dollars than these children. I don't even think James himself would disagree with me on that point.

Make sure you provide a dossier on all of these other children’s parents, including income, net worth, and general life choices. Otherwise you’re being disingenuous.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how someone with six children and an unemployed wife would not carry sufficient life insurance for that one time they are killed when their car is run into a barrier wall.

People procrastinate on such things. It’s not uncommon. Stop judging.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what exactly his 'I thought it was the coffee" symptom was?

No one can answer this with any degree of certainty. But I took it to mean, he was having diarrhea/ cramping/ bloating, or possibly even blood in the stool although I can't think most people would automatically jump to that being from coffee.

You get blood in the stool from someone who simply said “I thought it was the coffee”???

No, I get it from the fact that it's a well known , heavily documented sign of colon cancer and he said he was having bowel troubles and initially blamed coffee or creamer for them. The part about the creamer is what made me think maybe he saw blood- and assumed he was developing a milk allergy. But not everyone has a high degree of medical literacy. Everyone knows coffee can cause GI symtpoms and bowel changes. So when faced with GI symptoms and bowel changes, if that person has recently been drinking more coffee, it is not that surprising for them to think "i wonder if it is all the extra coffee". Chill.

You googled colon cancer symptoms when you should have googled too much coffee symptoms.

Seriously, why do you feel compelled to just make stuff up?

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They bought the $4.7M farm within the last month (they’d previously been renting it). Why are they asking us regular folk for money again?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what exactly his 'I thought it was the coffee" symptom was?

No one can answer this with any degree of certainty. But I took it to mean, he was having diarrhea/ cramping/ bloating, or possibly even blood in the stool although I can't think most people would automatically jump to that being from coffee.

You get blood in the stool from someone who simply said “I thought it was the coffee”???

No, I get it from the fact that it's a well known , heavily documented sign of colon cancer and he said he was having bowel troubles and initially blamed coffee or creamer for them. The part about the creamer is what made me think maybe he saw blood- and assumed he was developing a milk allergy. But not everyone has a high degree of medical literacy. Everyone knows coffee can cause GI symtpoms and bowel changes. So when faced with GI symptoms and bowel changes, if that person has recently been drinking more coffee, it is not that surprising for them to think "i wonder if it is all the extra coffee". Chill.

You googled colon cancer symptoms when you should have googled too much coffee symptoms.

Seriously, why do you feel compelled to just make stuff up?

Because he had colon cancer??? Which had nothing to do with coffee??? So when he said "I had some symptom and thought it was the coffee", and the PP asked "I wonder what those symptoms were that he thought was the coffee".... should we look at colon cancer symptoms, or excessive coffee symptoms??? Remember, the symptoms he had were from COLON CANCER. Why are you being so nasty? I tried to answer the PP's question in a normal way, as part of a normal discussion, and you're on some bizarre warpath about it.

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Anonymous wrote:They bought the $4.7M farm within the last month (they’d previously been renting it). Why are they asking us regular folk for money again?

Is that really true? That's actually kind of infuriating to be asking for donations if that's true. Ugh.

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Anonymous wrote:His wife is an avid anti-vaxxer, it absolutely makes me wonder if he carried medical insurance and if so, if he tried chemo vs different therapies. Or waited too long to try chemo. This is just a fact. You all are pouring millions into his widow's hands, for the sake of her children, and she won't even protect her children against deadly illnesses.

Eh whatever. They run around on a farm, seem like the type to homeschool. The kids probably don't go to public school. And what's this "you all" about giving money? It's rich people doing the GFM. It's not you and me. Well, it's not me, earning five figures over here in my tiny rent-controlled apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:They bought the $4.7M farm within the last month (they’d previously been renting it). Why are they asking us regular folk for money again?

Is that really true? That's actually kind of infuriating to be asking for donations if that's true. Ugh.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/james-van-der-beek-purchased-texas-ranch-before-dying/

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Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to have sympathy for someone like Van der Beek who was a full throated supporter of politicians, like Trump, who actively make healthcare less affordable.

Really?? You can’t have sympathy for him? That’s strange and I’m sad you call yourself a Democrat (I presume).