Hello Friends of Michael Duggan,
I am creating this Blog to inform all of you of Michaels passing January 2, 2009.
He was at home, and drifted off to sleep.
For those of you who did not know, Mike was diagnosed with ALS Lou Gerigs in 2007.
Please check this site for future postings and information on a Celebration of Mike's Life both in Washington and Canada.
Please feel free to leave comments.
Sincerely ,
Family and Friends
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Thank you Morissa, for taking on so much to help Mike's family at such a sad time.
ReplyDeleteAll of my Mike memories make me smile, some are unprintable but almost all include exhilarating speed, very loud music and earsplitting laughter. His live-life-large style was infectious and inspirational. Mike never judged anyone, and his friendship, loyalty and generosity knew no boundaries.
I'll miss you dreadfully, Mike and continue to reel and process the news. May the great wherever treat you well and care for your giant, robust spirit.
Love always,
Susie
For friends of Mike:
An obituary for Mike will be in the Times Colonist this week and a celebration of life in Victoria scheduled at a later date.
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Thank you Susie and Morissa:
ReplyDeleteMike was my longest standing friend. We have known each other since Jr. High School, although way back when at Spencer JR High (like 30 years ago) we were not originally friends.
However as the years passed we became friends and have remained, although at times infrequently, in contact.
Our ealiest activities including listing to Dark Side of the Moon using his bass amp as sub woofer, crazy pool parties and hanging out in Mike's caravan in the back yard. Mike parents sure were cool!
Since then we have shared a house together, flown together on more than on occaision, including one crazy night when Mike flew me and a few friends (2 trips in the cesna 172!) from Vic to Van for a Phil Colins concert. What a night...private plane and limo to and from the concert! On the return trip Mike realized he would everso slightly overshoot the runaway - he asked me if he should do it over and much to the other passengers dismay, I agreed so he aborted the landing, pulling up hard and fast and did it all over again...what a hoot!
Once we flew to Long Beach (Tofino)...just for lunch.
Other memorable events include going from zero to a gazillion miles an hour with the front wheels off the ground in Mike's 69 Camaro.
One time Mike came over from Bainbridge and drove to Sea Tac airport just to have a beer with me while I waited for a connecting flight.
I think the last time I saw Mike, and met Tiffany for the first time, was on Bainbridge in March of 2004. Its hard to believe that was 5 years ago.
A bunch of us were in Seattle celebrating my 40th, and we decided to go to Bainbridge spur of the moment - I called Mike from the ferry and caught him home...about 12 of us including Mike and Tiffany piled in to this tiny restaurant and pretty much took it over for about 3 hours - they had no idea what hit them! We headed back to Mikes and he showed us around, I couldn't believe he still had the black Mustang...I drove that thing when it was brand new over 20 years ago...the guys hung out for a couple more hours at his place while the girls shopped, enjoying great company, lots of beers, lots of stories, a great view and uncharacteristicly sunny weather for March.
I think he went to Iraq just after that trip...
Very recently Mike helped my sister Joanne during a very dark time in her life...Mike probably saved her life...fortunalty I had the opportunity to thank him personally.
Mike was in Florida (where we live) in Nov 2008 and he called...we tried to meet up 3 nights in a row but sadly, our schedules just wouldn't allow it ...my new job takes me to the west coast fairly frequently now and I was sure I'd be seeing him soon anyway...if I had only known...
Mike lived large, and cared, he reminds us that every day is one hell of a gift.
Mike my old friend, you will be missed, but never forgotten.
Ian
Mike.
ReplyDeleteAs an amateur astrophysicist, you understood that the divinity of people was manifest in how atoms coalesced into a creation which understood atoms.
It has been proposed that this process is how the universe obtains a conscience and becomes self aware, and that the birth and longevity of intelligent life sustains a conscience universe which some call ‘God’, and I can debate this in their defense.
Observation: your atoms are still here comprising a human form, but something is terribly wrong. Something huge is absent from them and from myself as well, and into this void pours deep rotting unspeakable anguish, and I am haunted with the frustration as in a vain search for a thing of great value which has been misplaced and cannot be found.
But better it is to suffer this anguish than to have never witnessed and partook in that entity which was greater than the sum of its atoms. That entity we called ‘Mike Duggan’, which swelled the chorus of the conscience universe and enriched the brief conscience moment we call ‘our lives’. How easily we forget what a miracle we are.
Soon your atoms will be dispersed yet again to continue their eternal journey. First as ash, then soil, and onward from there, and at this tiny worlds end, they will drift in the universe for millions of years once again, until they are driven together into other creations.
Now astrophysicists have realized that there is not nearly enough visible matter in the universe to account for gravitational influences observed throughout space-time. They endeavor to prove the existence of a theoretical substance which they have named ‘Dark Matter’, because it cannot be seen but must surely fill the universe.
It is apparent that this was spoken of in this single page of sacred text, and I am convinced astrophysicists are up against the doorway to the unseen worlds where I will find you soon enough. Until then, my friend.. I will miss you terribly.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/oah/oah/oah10.htm
Mark Fetterhoff
Mike - We shared some laughs about all the craziness at work, but you never lost your good natured outlook on life. Thanks for sharing with me some of your experiences and photos from Iraq and how much you enjoyed this past summer when you had Tiffany. I'm only sorry I didn't get an opportunity to know you sooner.
ReplyDeleteBrian Smith