We talked for awhile, and spoke of @Suplex and many other things.
She told me that she had spent much of the weekend crying, and today was the first day she hadn't cried, but she began to cry while I was speaking to her on the phone.
She told me that Dog is okay, or safe, at least. Dog was in the house with him when he died. It is unclear how long he was dead before she found him, but it seems like more than a few hours, so Dog was with in the house with him for awhile while @Suplex was dead.
She told me that when she was first banging on the door, Dog looked to be running back and forth, from the door to something important, trying to show her.
When she finally got the door open, dog rushed out to use the bathroom. He is a good boy. Then dog went back to Suplex's side.
Also, Dog really didn't like it when they came to take away the body.
Regardless, Dog is well and his sister will hold onto him for right now. She already has two dogs, she is not sure if she can handle a third, but in the event she can't keep him, @Suplex's nephew will take custodianship of Dog.
She also told me that @Suplex was at the funeral home, and he was to be cremated. She said their would be no service, as these were @Suplex's wishes. And I get the idea that @Suplex did piss a lot of people off.
This does not quite sit right with me, and I think @Suplex deserves to have some sort of memorial.
I brought up the topic of a stone. Not a gravestone, since he is to be cremated, but perhaps a small stone saying a few words about him, how much we was loved, how much he will be missed. I asked if there was any appropriate land to put it on.
She said they have much familial land, including where he was living.
Many people here have offered to help his family in some way, and I think this is the best way we can help. I think when I first spoke with his sister, she thought I was one random friend from the internet, and honestly was weirded out by it.
I think she is still weirded out a little, because I have not mentioned the name of the forum. I am uncertain if it is a good idea, she has my full identity. But I will figure out what to do about this in time.
Regardless, I think we should crowd-fund a small stone for to remember @Suplex.
I do not know how to do this, so I am going to defer to you guys, specifically @AOU, on if he has any ideas on how this will best be accomplished.
I don't think it will be terribly expensive, maybe $500.00 or so, but I have also never purchased a gravestone in Texas.
Also she said we can use 'Fuck' in the engraving, because apparently it was his favorite word. I can confirm this.
Regardless, other fun facts about @Suplex I gleamed from the conversation:
He spent a good amount of his childhood in Spain, and developed a lifelong love affair with reading, because he couldn't understand TV in Spanish.
He was extremely intelligent, and tested very highly in school. I think this fact is sometimes lost on people, because if you read his posts, he seemed like a retarded hick. And in many ways, he was a retarded hick. But talking to him on the phone, you could see the intelligence shine through. He was genuinely curious about everything, and his reading habit was quite insane.
He just had a shitty way of wording things, and didn't look read news or analysis on the internet all the time. This can appear to be retardation, but in reality, the man was outside and had chicken coops to build. He was smarter than most of us.
And finally, @Suplex was the person who cared for his dying Mother in her final years of life, until she died in 2023. I didn't know about that, but I found it really touching.
Regardless, let me know if you have any questions, or advice.
I think we should get them a stone.
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