RIP Jens

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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 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.

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And it's that pragmatism that is weighing down heavily on so many of us. Despite the reaching out we did, he made up his mind not to reach back.

I am angry and I am sad and I miss him.