Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away

willith writes "James Oliver Rigney Jr, author of the long-running fantasy series The Wheel of Time and better known to millions of fans by the pen name Robert Jordan, died on 16 Sept 2007 from cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan announced he had been diagnosed with the disease in March 2006 and vowed to beat the odds, but determination and gumption sometimes just aren't enough in the face of a disease with a median survival time of just over two years. Jordan was in the process of writing the twelfth and final book in the Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light, but the book was not slated for release until 2009 and is still incomplete. While there is hope that the book will still be finished from Jordan's notes, this is devastating news to all of us who have been reading the series since 1990."

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Re:a blessing on readers of Wheel of time

[MutualDisdain]

Ah of course, you are the pulse of human consciousness itself. You are the cold stethoscope on the flat chested nerd-body...

Every man has faults, but not every man has the dignity to respect the dead on the day of their death. Jordan was not a saint, or Shakespeare, but he also wasn't Hitler or Mussolini. Why don't you give the man a couple of days of respect before you start making yourself feel important by tearing down his career?

You can make this a multiple choice, or you can make this a true false question. Do you have the simple human dignity to allow a man's body to grow cold before you belittle everything he accomplished in his life? Is your ego so needy and shallow that it needs that beat a corpse to make it feel better?