Sad News

[willowisp]

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 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.

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[merlinofchaos]

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.