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Anonymous wrote:1.5 million so far. They probably need it though with 6 kids to raise and put through college. How much could his wife even work now?

The youngest child is 4. I think with six kids the goal is for her NOT to work, and it makes a lot of sense when widowed so young with so many young children. I hope they raise all the money they need. By all accounts he was a really great guy and beloved by everyone who knew him.

+1 I hope they raise enough so she never has to work, and all the costs are taken care of.

Anonymous wrote:1.5 million so far. They probably need it though with 6 kids to raise and put through college. How much could his wife even work now?

The youngest child is 4. I think with six kids the goal is for her NOT to work, and it makes a lot of sense when widowed so young with so many young children. I hope they raise all the money they need. By all accounts he was a really great guy and beloved by everyone who knew him.

1.5 million so far. They probably need it though with 6 kids to raise and put through college. How much could his wife even work now?

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

Goals on GoFundMe automatically increase once the goal is met. That's probably a setting.

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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.

* Unless you are diagnosed in your thirties or early 40s
* Unless your doctors write off your symptoms as acid reflux or IBS
* Unless the cancer has metastasized to other organs like the liver and the lungs
* Unless you have a gene mutation that makes your tumor less likely to respond to chemotherapy
* Unless your cancer has metastasized and is no longer resectable

Stage 3 colon cancer (is not stage 4) is statistically a beatable cancer. Of course it's not a 100% guarantee.
Get your colonoscopy.

I don't know the full story of his cancer. But I have had cancer that is considered "curable". It has a 90% 5 year survival rate in fact, which is very high. That still means 10 out 100 people DIE FROM THE CANCER. So having a statistically beatable cancer does not save every single person who get the cancer. Statistics are not personal and *someone* is the 1% or 5%. Maybe he was reckless, maybe he didn't get screen at the exact right time, maybe he used juice instead of chemo. I don't know. But what I do know is that everyone is so hell bent on pretending that they are doing everything right, therefore they are safe. Cancer does not always work like that.

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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.

Luke Perry was the first one that really shook me, then Shannen Doherty and now James. 90210 and Dawson’s Creek were a huge part of my teen years. It definitely makes you face your own mortality when people that are of your generation pass so young.

They were/are RENTING the ranch in Austin.

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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.

I just saw an old interview with him that said he and the cast from Dawson's Creek receive no residuals for that show for syndication/streaming etc. He said he was 20 years old and had a terrible contract. I know he worked quite a bit after DC, but he definitely wasn't a "major player" in Hollywood. In fact, I think he was the least successful of the 4 leading DC actors. Hope his wife can put the money raised into a trust for the kids.

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.

I had rectal bleeding that I was 99% sure was either a hemmorhoid or fissure and got a colonoscopy at 35 anyway. Good peace of mind. To hell with the insurance companies.

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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.

Exactly. I expect the person who is focused on another person’s loss has never truly buried someone s/he truly in love

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

Boseman was 43-years old when he died.

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: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.

Chadwick Boseman was diagnosed with stage 3 at the age of 39. He died four years later at the age of 43. He never made the magic 45 for early diagnosis.

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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

It's awful here. Every gastroenterologist has a long wait list to get an appointment.

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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

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Posting it quick to tug at emotions no doubt but good strategy.