RIP Chris (Jetson), WrongPlanet member and moderator

Post Reply New Topic

i am saddened.

i remeber thinking that he seemed to be a nice guy.

Rest in Peace Our Friend.

Goodbye. We will miss you.

Sorry to hear it of course. I remember him well. He'll be missed.

R.I.P. Chris

Eternal dreams and pleasant journeys, Jetson

My condolences to everyone. I did not know him but from what you have all said he sounded like a good guy.

Rest in peace Jetson,hope he had many good years of life to make the bad worth living.

God bless you Jetson

That's so sad. I had not seen him post here in a while. Now I will get worried everytime someone stops posting.

We have a radio talk show station here in Detroit. And I remember this woman would call in everyday and give her two cents worth on everything regardless of what the subject matter was. I mean she would literally call everyday. Then all of a sudden she stopped calling and a couple of weeks later we found out she had died.

My deepest condolences to Jetson's Family.

RIP Jetson

My condolences to his family and friends

He will be missed

Oh, Jetson. How did I miss this thread? Yes, he was one of the originals of WP. Always calm, warm, and just an all around nice guy. I hope he went peacefully... and I hope his family is doing as well as can be expected.

Yes, he will be sorely sorely missed.

Obviously Jetson didn't realise the wonderful affect he had on many people. Me included. I miss him terribly.

May Ka lead him to a better place.

In addition to Aspergers and ADD Chris also suffered from depression. He received the diagnosis of all his conditions right around his 40th birthday, after having been troubled for quite some time. I have read some of his posts in your forums, and there are clues to be found within them. As I wrote earlier, Chris had said the medication wasn't working. I read in one of his posts that the medicine he took for his ADD would carry him through the workday but the timing made it difficult to keep with it through the evening and he suffered as a result. We believe it was a matter of his multiple problems that made it difficult to treat them all effectively; perhaps treating one was to the detriment of the others. Chris had told us that when the medication worked it helped, but when it didn't it left him worse off than before.

Chris didn't want to be treated, he wanted to be cured; and how do you reconcile this desire with an incurable condition? This could only have made the depression he was suffering even more intolerable.

I was just watching the movie 'The Last Samurai'. If you havn't seen it, I'd highly recommend it. In the very last scene, the Japanese Emperor asks Tom Cruise's character "Tell me how he died."; the response is "I'll tell you how he lived." To me, that is the most important part of this sad story. Not what happened, but what Chris accomplished in his all-to-short life. The lives he touched, the lives he saved, the legacy he leaves behind.

Thank you all for your kind messages here and the submissions to the Guestbook (www.shurl.org/ChrisRasley_Guestbook). If you havn't taken the time to look at the Photo Album attached, please do so. I posted a picture there of Chris and my daughter Ceara, from the only time she had ever met Chris (her 'Uncle Patrick' as she remembers him). He was happy, she adored him.

A message I sent to a friend shortly after I received the news:

"Please, if you are still suffering from any sort of depression or related issues ... My brother just lost the battle. The pain is not just yours; it passes to those left behind. If you care for someone, give them a hug. NOW."

I guess that's the best bit of wisdom I can pass along. A simple gesture, but it works.

Dam, that's a shame. At least if he was struggling with something long-term and degenerative he got to live the best years of his life and didn't get pulled down the whole spiral of fading health as much as what happens to other people. IMO if I ever find out I have MS or something of the like I'd kinda prefer it that way myself.