On 2006-06-27 17:12:00, Anonymous wrote:
"ANON, Mom Cat or Izzie
Nobody is disrespecting Layne's family, but rather, expressing an opinion about finding out the way they did about the death of someone they cared very muvh about and considered a friend.
Can you see the difference?
Karen called his mom, for pete's sake, and how do you think she must have felt to confirm the tragic news that Layne has passed away the first week of June more than 20 days ago?
?
Somebody posted the news on Fornits, with no link to any resource, leaving people wondering if this was some kind of bad joke.
Well, thanks to BK, we know it's not, and she can hardly be considered disrepectful of the Layne family.
"
Anon,
Go back and read my post to Karen - I am not criticizing her in any way, I called Terry and I had to confirm the news the same way Karen did after seeing this on Fornits. In fact, Karen and I called probably moments of each other. I thought this was some sort of sick joke when I could not find anything about his death on Yahoo or Google, so I ran and called Terry and found out it was true.
I was just as appalled as Karen that we had to find out this way. It is true that the family may have wanted it kept quiet for a while. But please.
Paula has a memorial on her website - so the family must have agreed that she announce it on the internet. At least I would hope so. If that's the case, then Paula knew others would soon find out. In my opinion, that is when she should have put aside any feelings and called, or e-mailed us, and let us know about this tragedy - not let us find out this way.
Many of us knew Terry and Layne and many of us care deeply for them. Layne suffered so much and many of us have hurt inside for what he and his family have endured.
I would ask you, Anon, to please not try to start something here when I was agreeing with Karen. Please, can we please have enough respect to stop with the negative posts and move on.
Isabelle