Did you hear the terrible news???

Chiro75

Chiro75

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I just read on the main forum that our very own Madpoet, Mel Sorg, was found dead in the woods earlier this week! I feel like I've been run over by a steamroller as he was a pretty close aquaintance as far as not having ever met him. I know a lot of us here really admired his stuff, and just thought you guys ought to know what's happened. What a terrible day...

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My gosh! Things that have happened recently around here give me cause to wonder if that old Irish bit about stuff coming in threes may not be true. I'm quite saddened by this news. We are all diminished.

-=[Bob]=-
 
I am very sad to learn the news.

Mel was a very kind and gentle soul.

Mel lived alone.

I will miss Mel.

I want to know what happened to have some closure with this.

Dave
 
I am saddened to hear this. Madpoet was a big help and I think he will be missed imensely.
 
Spencer, that does not seem right to me, but I haven't heard back from mel's landlord who broke the news in the first place, so I really don't know more than you do, either. I saw some other people discussing how Mel was under the weather with what he thought was a virus in the last few weeks, so maybe it was of natural causes. Maybe not. I hope so.

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Well, Spencer, I'm afraid the folks on your listserv are right. I just read Mel's obituary and an open letter by his friend and landlord, and while no direct conclusion is made, it seems clear that a gunshot trauma was the cause of death, not an illness of some type. It makes very little sense to me that someone would work as hard as Madpoet did in making his business up-and-coming, then end it all for whatever reason, but then again the human psyche is complicated and I was probably only allowed into the parts that Mel wanted me to see. I just can't understand how one can get so low as to take actions that hurt the people around them so much, but in any case, Mel is is a better place now, so what's done is done.

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Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
 
The description I heard from the landloard was a "Self-inflicted gunshot". This does not preclude the possibility of a hunting accident of some type, a judgement I'll leave to someone else.
Aaron

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My sincere sympathy to his family and friends.

Sometimes suicide is not an attempt to get back at others, but a response to unbearable psychic pain.

Whatever the circumstances, suicide is almost always a permanent solution to a temporary problem. May he be at peace.

Walt
 
Gentlemen,

You can help the Sorg family in a number of ways. If you go to Mel's website at http://www.angelfire.com/mn/madpoet there is an auction running of his unsold stock, and a sale of his personal collection of knives and knifemaking equipment and supplies. There is also a link to a memorial page which will tell you where to send memorial donations to the family.

Let us please focus on what Mel contributed to this community, and not on the details of his last moments. I prefer to remember Mel healthy and jovial.

Wade King
waking@plains.nodak.edu
 
I was hoping the details of this tragedy wouldn't be blasted all over the internet. What difference does it make? It serves no purpose. How would you feel if it was one of your family?
Mel was a great guy, he's gone and I will miss him.
Darrell please delete this thread.

[This message has been edited by TomW (edited 17 September 1999).]
 
Tom and Wade, I meant no disrespect by mentioning it here (wasn't it Wade that posted the obit in the first place?). It makes no difference to me how Mel passed other than the fact that I am in the health care fields and was interested because someone mentioned a possible illness or virus, which has impact on what I do for a living. Mel was a great guy and he was superb to deal with. I treasure all the knives I bought from him regardless of the circumstances surrounding his last days. I am in no place to judge others.

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On Two Wheels
 
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