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RIP Jens
I was considering finally uploading a ramble about the Occupy Movement tonight, or maybe the CFL game I watched this afternoon, or a review of one or two books.
But all that can wait.
We lost someone on Thursday whom I've known for about ten years, a guy in Hamburg I considered a friendly acquaintance whom, in my arrogance, I would like to think of as in the process of becoming a friend in fact.
His name was Jens Altmann. Some of us here on Livejournal knew him as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
black13. He wore a number of different hats in the years I knew him: comics fan, writer, translator, occasional cartoonist, and for a few years, husband.
On Thursday, he ended himself. Personally, without much more in the way of evidence than our interactions over the Net over the years...I suspect - but will never be able to prove - clinical depression.
I never got to meet him in person.
And now that option is off-limits to us all.
Jens, I'm sorry.
But all that can wait.
We lost someone on Thursday whom I've known for about ten years, a guy in Hamburg I considered a friendly acquaintance whom, in my arrogance, I would like to think of as in the process of becoming a friend in fact.
His name was Jens Altmann. Some of us here on Livejournal knew him as
black13. He wore a number of different hats in the years I knew him: comics fan, writer, translator, occasional cartoonist, and for a few years, husband.On Thursday, he ended himself. Personally, without much more in the way of evidence than our interactions over the Net over the years...I suspect - but will never be able to prove - clinical depression.
I never got to meet him in person.
And now that option is off-limits to us all.
Jens, I'm sorry.