willowisp: (Grieving or sympathetic)
Cat ([personal profile] willowisp) wrote2004-05-23 09:30 pm

Sad News

A con site whose GOH was to be (honorary doctor) Richard Biggs has put up notice of his death -- no cause reported yet. It hasn't reached any major news feeds that [livejournal.com profile] callicrates could find, so I suppose I could try clinging to the hope that it's one of those "Reports of my death is greatly exaggerated" situations.

I was really surprised to hear that he had been going deaf as B5 was filmed. I was impressed when he used his B5 connections to throw a benefit for a deaf school, I believe in California. We need more people like him around -- it's sad that instead we've lost one.

[identity profile] esmerel.livejournal.com 2004-05-24 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
An announcement was made by JMS on the B5 list this morning. :(
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[personal profile] merlinofchaos 2004-05-24 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
JMS posted an announcement which got forwarded to the JMSB5 list. He had either a massive stroke or an aneuyrism, they weren't sure as of the time he wrote it.

He sounded pretty stunned. I'll repost it on my LJ so people can read it.

[identity profile] echoweaver.livejournal.com 2004-05-24 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
That's my con in Indy. They got verbal confirmation from his agent early this afternoon.

[identity profile] mycroftca.livejournal.com 2004-05-24 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen elsewhere emails from JMS detailing what's happened, more or less, so I'm afraid this is official...

[identity profile] raira.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
How horrible. :(