"FORGET ME NOT"
This page was established about 1997 by the former Lismore based Northern Rivers
ME/CFS/FM Association.
This page is dedicated to the memory of loved ones who have
passed away through through complications of M.E/CFS/FM or by their own
hand
We remember those who lost their lives in war, through
complications by having AIDS. We,
therefore need to
remember those who have lost their battle through the devastation of ME/CFS/FM
and/
or related illnesses.
The former Lismore NRMECFS management committee submitted an M.E Charter 2000 to the Australian Federal Government asking them to establish a
National database to record deaths from ME/CFS/FM similar to that of AIDS.
Unfortunately this was never established.
ME/CFS is being recognised as a serious and
debilitating illness, but not a fatal one. Meanwhile, myths and misconceptions which have detracted from the true nature
and severity of the illness continue to be challenged and shattered. ME/CFS is NOT
merely a chronic, manageable, non-fatal illness from which
most/many people recover. (reprint with permission from The National CFIDS Foundation
newsletter. Read more on their memorial page on the Web site:
http://:www.ncf-net.org)
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The state CFS/ME
Societies are reluctant to publish information when a person with this illness dies. However, our condolences go out to the family and friends
who may have lost a loved one through complications of this illness. I thereby dedicate
this memorial list in eternal memory of those who have lost the battle but are not
forgotten.
Memorial list
 | MARIE ANDERSON: Nurse, age 30s overwhelming infection,
Septic Shock...(Casino Australia)...1988 |
| CAROLYN MUSCA: Artist, age 40s, ME and Melanoma. (WA
Australia)... 1990 |
| MARTIN LEV: age 40s, ME, Intolerable headaches, (suicide)
former president Action for ME. (UK).............1992 |
| ARNOLD SMITH.. age unknown, ME/CFS (QLD Australia).........1994 |
| LYN DRYSDALE.: age 70s, ME and heart problems. (SA
Australia)........1995 |
| ALISON HUNTER.: age 19,ME and complications (NSW
Australia).....1996 |
| CHRISTINE GEIFING: age 55, ME and cancer (suicide). (Calla Bay, NSW
Australia).....1996 |
| JOANNE KRUGER: age 40s,ME, intolerable pain (suicide)..(QLD
Australia).........1996 |
| DAVID KILLINGBECK: 50s, ME, poverty (suicide). (VIC
Australia)..1996 |
| JUDITH CURREN: age unknown, CFIDS, physician assisted
suicide (USA) ........1996 |
| LINDA JENKINS: Age unknown, CFS, (Newcastle Australia)
..........1997 |
| JANIS MURPHY:: age 40, CFS/FM, died of carbon monoxide
poisoning. (Nevada USA).........1997 |
| DENISE JERRY: age 40, CFIDS, asthma, suffered a massive
coronary...(New York USA)...........1997 |
| NITA MENSIK. age 68, ME and Cancer (Lismore Australia)...1997 |
| JOANNE BUTLER: age 24, ME, respiratory failure and viral
pneumonia (Australia).........1997 |
| CHRIS BROWN: age 60s, FM simply stopped breathing, (Mid
Canterbury NZ)............1999 |
| GRACE ROFE: age 69, ME and heart failure. (Mullumbimby
Australia)...1999 |
| DINESHA GUNAWARDENA: age 45, CFS suicide pack with son. (UK).........2001 |
| GEORGE POLLACK: age 80, ME. (QLD Australia)....2001 |
| PRINCESS LEILA PAHLAVI: age 31, ME, investigating
overdose (UK).......2001 |
| ROBERT ROACHE: age 70s, ME. .(Casino Australia)....2001 |
| DAVE PLANCK: age unknown, ME,. (Sth Africa).....2001 |
| SHERRYL ATKINSON: age 50, CFS (Fair Oaks USA)....2001 |
| IAN YANNER, age 48,CFS and cancer. Palmerston N.T Australia...2002 |
| Martin Buckley, Lismore, NSW...... 2002. |
| Barry Sheene.....................2003 |
For some of these people the intolerable pain was too much for them, they
ended their lives. Others had another medical complications. If you read this
page and you would like a loved one remembered please email me
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith:
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light:
And where there is sadness, joy.
O' Divine Master, grant that I may not so
much
Seek to be consoled as to console.
To be understood as to understand
To be loved, as to love
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
St. Francis of Assisi
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