From sang@sinister.com Sun Oct 31 10:51:10 1999
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:14:48 -0500 (EST)
From: sang@sinister.com
To: Sandy Harris <sandy.harris@sympatico.ca>
Cc: dc-stuff@dis.org
Subject: Funeral Arrangements, Flowers, and Donations


Funeral arrangements have been made, and can be obtained by
emailing me: sang@sinister.com.

In lieu of flowers the family has requested that I setup
a Memorial Fund for Krys to help offset the cost of her
medical bills and funeral arrangements.

I will be setting the fund up this week.  I don't have
any details yet, and have never done this before, so if
anyone has any constructive help in this matter, please
email me directly.

The funeral is Monday evening in Florida, if your schedule
allows that, please email me and I will provide you
details.

Thanks for all the personal emails with supporting comments
as Krys and I, and my girlfriend were very close friends.

I would like to mention something on that note.

Although krys and I were very good friends both  online
and offline, I would like to say that noone should 
dismiss their 'online relationship' as less important 
or true than any 'real life' relationship she established.

Krys held all of her friends both online and offline in the
same regard.  Her ability to express intelligence, feelings, 
and true emotion both online and offline are one of the 
endearing qualities that drew her to so many.

Unlike may people, she was both the same online and offline.
Honest, caring, gentle and loving.
(ok, she could be a bit snippy, too.)

Either way, I just wanted to take a moment to express that because
I've received emails with discounted feelings because of 
'online relationships' seeming less important to people, but it 
wasn't to Krys.
(that paragraph sucks grammatically, but I think I got my point across)

I will post more information as I receive it.


.sang

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Sandy Harris wrote:

> 
> I didn't know Krystalia, just saw a few posts here. Still, I'm saddened
> at the loss.
> 
> I'm also moderately amazed at the indications on the list of how much
> she was respected and cared for by various folk. It occurs to me to
> wonder if these feelings can be harnessed to do something in memory
> of her.
> 
> A collective donation to cancer research? Do something interesting with
> the Krystalia.org domain someone mentioned getting? Create a Krystalia Fund to bring interesting but penniless people to Defcon?
> Or to send promising young goth chicks to university?
> 
> I didn't know her well enough to know what would be appropriate, don't
> have any clear idea what resources this crew might have, and clearly
> am not the right one to organize something like this, but I thought I'd
> make the suggestion and see where it goes.
> 
> If it does go anywhere, I'm in for a few bucks or some labour.
>