For those of you old-timers still around, I thought I would let you know that Ek passed a day or two ago. He had many fans, and we will all remember him fondly.
Edit: Some people have asked in comments why Ek was bojo’d. Simple. He was a very principled man, and he stood by his convictions and friends. Knowing Ek, he probably wore that bojo as a badge of honor.
Edit II: The front desk at the request of elenacarlena and others have given Ek infinity status.
From: TheMomCat
Ek had a chronic problem that nearly killed him 2012. He needed a liver transplant, and we were managing. He was doing just fine, and we were traveling until this summer when I could see he was failing. Were on our way to a lake house in that his parents own in NH when he suddenly got sick. I drove to the nearest hospital to where we were in MA that was about 3 m Tuesday. He went into cardiac arrest at about 10 pm, was resuscitated but died at 6:05 am on the 4th, I was with him.
The hardest thing I have ever had to do was to tell his elderly parents that there eldest son was dying and there was nothing we could do but to let him go. Needless to say I am heartbroken
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