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Anonymous wrote:He’s the first celebrity whose death has ever made me cry (for a couple minutes)—and I’m 51. I couldn't figure out why. It isn’t fandom. It’s that, at least in his public life, he just seemed like a genuinely decent person, and with everything happening in our country right now, the news was hard to hear. So many of us watched him in the late ’90s, back when the world felt a lot less chaotic and frightening.

I wish his wife the strength and support she will need as she faces life with six very young kids. Today it seems like it's true that only the good die young.

I think we all have that first celebrity news that hits us personally.

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Anonymous wrote:Now the goal is $1m. Skyrocketing

JFC who CARES? I wouldn’t trade my husband for $1m and I’m guessing his widow would prefer to have him alive.

It’s sick to focus on this.

It’s not “sick.” It’s notable because when people die from cancer, people usually will bring a dinner to their home or send flowers. They won’t send donations amounting to $1mn within a few hours.

And it’s notable because most famous people don’t ask fans for money, but in this case with 6 kids, a SAH wife and big medical bills, sounds like James VanDerBeek ran through all money.

Lots of people do GFM. He just has a wider reach than you and your neighbors. But you can always make more money and he can’t.

Anonymous wrote:They should recommend Cologard to everyone at the age of 30 or 35. It’s cheaper than a colonoscopy, if the insurance companies bark about lowering the age.

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Anonymous wrote:Now the goal is $1m. Skyrocketing

JFC who CARES? I wouldn’t trade my husband for $1m and I’m guessing his widow would prefer to have him alive.

It’s sick to focus on this.

Anonymous wrote:How old was Chadwick Boswick? I believe he passed of the same

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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.

I personally know multiple folks diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in their 30s--all of them with no apparent risk factors. Rates are rising among young people, who are often diagnosed before they are even eligible for colonoscopies, and often at stages where it's not really treatable. But yes, if you are 45, get your colonoscopy.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone should get colonoscopy at 40

My dr didn't even recommend it until I was 49 and even then she said to just sh*t in a box and send it through the mail, not a colonoscopy.

Change doctors
DC nova has the worst snobbiest incompetent doctors I've seen

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Anonymous wrote:So sad for his six children and his wife.

Me too. It seems like Kimberly has never worked (at least since she married him). I hope he had good life insurance. Raising six kids and maintaining a big farm in Texas (or anywhere, really) must be incredibly expensive. I have a feeling they weren't in a good place financially since James was auctioning off memorabilia from his football movie.

Wife has already started a gofundme

Lol the rich persons go to. She can't work?

Her husband isn't even buried yet. She and her kids are in mourning. She has a farm/ranch to run. Her youngest child is 2 or 3 years old. She hasn't worked since 2010 because she's been a SAHM.

All of this is true, but most people don’t have this luxury when their spouse dies. But she’s already collected 522k in just a few hours so it’s good to be famous.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-james-van-der-beeks-family

Anonymous wrote:He’s the first celebrity whose death has ever made me cry (for a couple minutes)—and I’m 51. I couldn't figure out why. It isn’t fandom. It’s that, at least in his public life, he just seemed like a genuinely decent person, and with everything happening in our country right now, the news was hard to hear. So many of us watched him in the late ’90s, back when the world felt a lot less chaotic and frightening.

I wish his wife the strength and support she will need as she faces life with six very young kids.

Today it seems like it's true that only the good die young.

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Anonymous wrote:Please get your colonoscopies! 45 with no family history, younger if you you have a history.

James got his. Feels like you are blaming him.

I don’t believe he got them as he should have:

- he was unaware that the screening age had dropped from 50 to 45

- he had changes in his bowel habits and attributed it to caffeine intake rather than speaking to a physician

What?

Who cares if he knew the screening age if he still got one at what turned out to be the recommended screening age?

People have changes in bowel habits for myriad reasons. I hope you don’t suggest that one go running to the doctor or for a colonoscopy as the first step every time? In addition to being impractical on a personal level, it’s impractical on a system level.

He was diagnosed at 46. He did not get screened at 45 and had publicly said he didn’t know screening was recommended at 45. I am suggesting people get tested when recommended and discuss changes in your status with your physician.

This is the medical equivalent of being pedantic.

It was 17 months after he turned 45 before he was screened AND he was not asymptomatic. Certain cancers cause things like oily or floating poop. This is not just caffeine makes me go. He had unexplained weightloss (another cancer indicator) and fatigue as well as abdominal pain.





So I completely disagree.

Okay. I’m sure that you need to tell yourself he died of cancer at 48 freaking years old because HE f—ked up somehow.

Hopefully that will make you feel more in control.

Wtf? No, I am simply saying he had symptoms like abdominal pain and bowel changes, unexplained fatigue and weight loss- which he blew off as caffeine related. If you think those combined symptoms don’t warrant finding out what is going on, that’s likely the minority. It isn’t blaming someone to simply say that those symptoms should have resulted in talking to a doctor sooner than he did and he himself said I was late getting a colonscopy. It’s not blaming him…it’s correcting people who say it’s pedantic to get a colonscopy right when it’s due (and ignores that he was symptomatic).

I would imagine even he wld have said he shld have moved faster. Only you think it was just fine to ignore everything.

But he DIDN’T blow anything off, you absolute f—king moron. He DID go to the doctor and he DID get a colonoscopy, and he died anyway. He didn’t ignore anything.

And you seem INCREDIBLY bad at math and statistics if you think that a recommendation that stood for DECADES to get screened starting at 50 suddenly changing to 45 means that 45 is some magic number as compared to… 46.

Seriously, you’re both an idiot AND an absolute a$$hat.

💯!!!!!

Anonymous wrote:He’s the first celebrity whose death has ever made me cry (for a couple minutes)—and I’m 51. I couldn't figure out why. It isn’t fandom. It’s that, at least in his public life, he just seemed like a genuinely decent person, and with everything happening in our country right now, the news was hard to hear. So many of us watched him in the late ’90s, back when the world felt a lot less chaotic and frightening.

I wish his wife the strength and support she will need as she faces life with six very young kids. Today it seems like it's true that only the good die young.

I think we all have that first celebrity news that hits us personally.

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Anonymous wrote:Now the goal is $1m. Skyrocketing

JFC who CARES? I wouldn’t trade my husband for $1m and I’m guessing his widow would prefer to have him alive.

It’s sick to focus on this.

It’s not “sick.” It’s notable because when people die from cancer, people usually will bring a dinner to their home or send flowers. They won’t send donations amounting to $1mn within a few hours.

And it’s notable because most famous people don’t ask fans for money, but in this case with 6 kids, a SAH wife and big medical bills, sounds like James VanDerBeek ran through all money.