Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:59     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
How awful
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:48     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Oh I'm so sad. This is going to make my husband really sad too.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:48     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Anonymous wrote:Did you all watch the video where he announces his diagnosis?

Seriously gracious and so sad to hear.


He is a class act.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:44     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Anonymous wrote:I was so sorry to hear that. I just lost a family member to pancreatic cancer recently. He went three weeks from diagnosis to passing away. This news feels like a bit of a gut punch after that.


Same though six weeks for my family member.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:43     Subject: Re:Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
My sister was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and passed away a bit more than 4 months (2015) later at 54 (median survival time post dx is 6 months unless you have the kind Steve Jobs had). It is a brutal disease to have.

It IS sad. Years and years ago I worked in a group home where the residents watched Jeopardy every evening (the Jeopardy and K-mart bits in the movie Rainman were spot on). Every so often I catch a bit of it--it's so reassuring when so often it feels like the world is completely off the rails (I think you can feel this way no matter what your politics are!).

His life insurance ads crack me up, though, because I used to sell that crap and the pitch really has not changed in decades, probably hasn't changed in the last century.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:43     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Did you all watch the video where he announces his diagnosis?

Seriously gracious and so sad to hear.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:37     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Goddamnit. He is a seriously nice man.
- former contestant


You can’t say you’re a former contestant without saying how far you got and if you won!

I placed second and won $2,000 almost ten years ago.

Trebek is very gracious and I’m so sorry he got this horrible diagnosis.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:35     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Anonymous wrote:Goddamnit. He is a seriously nice man.
- former contestant


You can’t say you’re a former contestant without saying how far you got and if you won!
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:31     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Anonymous wrote:I was so sorry to hear that. I just lost a family member to pancreatic cancer recently. He went three weeks from diagnosis to passing away. This news feels like a bit of a gut punch after that.


I’m so sorry
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:24     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
I was so sorry to hear that. I just lost a family member to pancreatic cancer recently. He went three weeks from diagnosis to passing away. This news feels like a bit of a gut punch after that.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:21     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Noooooooo. Sorry for him. Such a legend.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:19     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Oh no!
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:11     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Goddamnit. He is a seriously nice man.
- former contestant
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:10     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Oh no! What horrible news!
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2019 17:08     Subject: Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer
I don’t watch Jeopardy regularly, but this makes me oddly sad. I wonder if he will be replaced or the show will stop production. It wouldn’t be the same with someone else.