Ian

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Tarbox23 wrote: Why should a 'man' who took the easy way out of life, abandoning a baby daughter, and screwing over his friends and family, be celebrated in death?

"Rest in Peace" etc is so easily typed.

You can love the music, but also understand the tragedy is not something to be 'appreciated'.....

(and, yes, as anyone with depression knows, suicide IS the easy way out... so spare me the 'he couldn't help it, you don't understand his pain' comments.... he turned his back on everyone, except himself.... )

You should all be celebrating his BIRTHDAY if you truly feel as you do.

Tarbox23 wrote: well, again, why do we say this on the anniversary of his DEATH? yeah, I know we do it every year. but is it really appropriate? I think it has more to do with easy fandom than true respect for the man.

let his family and friends respect him on this sad day. what do you really know about it?

us fans who know little of his situation, let us spend his BIRTHDAY to celebrate him.

am i really a cunt for saying that, as one gifted poster has brilliantly claimed? I think your anger has more to do with your realization that your Goth Hero Worship is misguided, than at my simple request....

i make no dishonor to the man. in fact, he probably agrees with me wherever he is today, unable to hug his daughter....

leave him alone today.

So where was Tarbox on Ian's birthday? Nowhere to be found. No surprise there, he usually only shows up every May 18, bashing Ian and his fans, telling us we should be celebrating his life on his birthday instead of remembering him on May 18.

Remember this next May 18, when he shows up to bash Ian and his fans yet again. On July 15, when he could have made a post celebrating Ian's life, Tarbox was nowhere to be found.

Says it all.