# budrys *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 11 Jun 2008* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Marc Aramini *11 Jun 2008, 02:51* I am something of an obituary watcher. Algis Budrys appears to have passed away, born in 1931. I get a bit depressed when I think that Clarke, Lafferty, Butler, Knight, Williamson, and others have so recently passed. sigh --- ### Jeff Wilson *11 Jun 2008, 03:23 · in reply to Marc Aramini* > Marc Aramini wrote: > I am something of an obituary watcher. Algis Budrys appears to have > passed away, born in 1931. I get a bit depressed when I think that > Clarke, Lafferty, Butler, Knight, Williamson, and others have so > recently passed. sigh Other than Butler, they'd all outlived the majority of their peers outside the field, and were fortunate to have had long, productive lives beyond what was expected in the times and places they were born. Rather than let their end depress us, let us consider that each one's greater story is now complete, and be cheered that it rose above the common lot as we each fancy our efforts might. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` ---