RIP jinks

[Guest nakmuay]

Hi guys and others

 

 

Right i am posting here out of respect for my uncle whom many of you will know well i believe. If this would be better placed in another section please do me the honour of moving this as i would like it to gain as much exposure for my uncle as possible.

 

At 15:15 today a man many of you know and hopefully love passed on from this world. His name was john jeffries one of the smartest blokes i have ever met and im sure equal for many of the BMs here.

 

To give more details he has been fighting lung Cancer for the last 18 months and through much pain and suffering has now passed to a better place. He was suffering on oxygen for the last 12months after a junior doctor gave him emphysema (and nearly killed him) by puncturing his lung taking a sample of a malignant lump in his wind pipe. 

 

He has suffered horribly for the past 6 months even with many many forms of medication for pain, lukemia, and various other ailments including carrying oxygen and maintaining his work as a taxi driver throught this hard time right up untill a month ago(for anyone who understands what a burden being on oxygen is for someone to work like he did is just astounding and proof of what heart he had). 

 

He was always in good company and had the support of many of his old friends from the gay community and Nightingale pub and his family and any of you here that may have been involved i thank you massively.

 

He did not suffer when he passed and was in no pain and was with his brother just 15mins before. And i can only thank you wonderful nurses and doctors of st marys hospice for their efforts and sterling care they offered and gave my uncle the most dignified and 

 

I myself am a visitor to pattaya (soi 6(girl bars 555)) and understand just how close a community like this is (im an addict) so if anyone from the community in england would like to attend his funeral any and all friends of john would be more than welcome to attend. It will be in Birmingham but when i will not be able to tell you yet as his passing only happened earlier today.

 

I understand what a forum is like(not everyone in a community sees eye to eye 100% of the time) but i will ask please be respectful in this thread.

 

I would also ask if there are any other forums john has an active role in i would appreciate you to let his friends know there of his passing and extend the same invitation for his funeral. He was also a widows son but i would not know how to contact this group of people but im hopeful someone here will be able to help me in this regard.

 

please contact me on ecigpp@gmail.com if you would like to attend the funeral so i can keep people info in one place. i will try to place the info here in this thread but its not easy keeping track of things at a time like this.

 

RIP uncle John you will be missed like hell, and i hope your smiling on us all right now.

 

 

i am having real problems locating which forum to post this on as all the sawatdee forums seem to be down..... if anyone can help i would appreciate it.

[vinapu]

God let Him rest in peace and my condolences to you on Jinks's passing away.

 

He was very prolific poster on gay boards and will be missed by many , thank you for taking trouble and letting us know that fast in this sad circumstances. 

[Alexx]

My condolences to you, nakmuay. I've only known your uncle from the forums, but I'm sorry for your loss and I'd like to thank you for informing us about his passing. May he rest in peace.

 

The Sawatdee Forum has been moved to a new domain. Try http://sawatdeenetwork.com/ instead, that should work (I can currently access it, so it isn't down or anything).

[Guest SpermAholic]

I am new to this gay forum so never heard of him but did he die in Pattaya or UK?

 

Either iether, my condolances and may he RIP.

[Guest nakmuay]

My condolences to you, nakmuay. I've only known your uncle from the forums, but I'm sorry for your loss and I'd like to thank you for informing us about his passing. May he rest in peace.

 

The Sawatdee Forum has been moved to a new domain. Try http://sawatdeenetwork.com/ instead, that should work (I can currently access it, so it isn't down or anything).

 

 

thanks i have signed up to that forum on 3 domain names now.

 

and posted my message in 2 sections at the address you posted (i did last night but the fucking forum wont let me post)

 

i have messaged admin via contact form to get them to sort it but nothing... i cannot pm as no post count and the forum does not allow me to make any.

 

this is crazy like i cant even post ona  forum my uncle helped moderate!!!!!

 

And some dick is accusing me of starting a hoax!!

 

im telling you now i am very annoyed with this person

 

here

http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/death-jinks-t30377.html

[Guest nakmuay]

God let Him rest in peace and my condolences to you on Jinks's passing away.

 

He was very prolific poster on gay boards and will be missed by many , thank you for taking trouble and letting us know that fast in this sad circumstances. 

 

 

thank you for your kind words.

[Bob]

I met jinks (and that's with a small "j" --- he hated it when I wrote it with a large "J") only once, about 12 or 13 years or so at one of Allen Brigg's get-togethers on the Ambience porch.  Nice guy, glad I met him.

 

As moderator over at Sawatdee, I always tended to sympathize with his handling a job nobody in their right mind would want in those days but, as far as I was concerned, he did a good job and I actually wished he had more power so he could occasionally use his broom to sweep out that which needed to get swept out. 

 

A good guy and he'll be missed.  Condolences to family and friends.

[Gaybutton]

And some dick is accusing me of starting a hoax!!

 

im telling you now i am very annoyed with this person

 

here

http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/death-jinks-t30377.html

 

That "dick" is probably me.  But that's not what I said at all and I made no such accusation.  What I said was, "I hope it will turn out to be someone's idea of a sick hoax, but the post does seem believable to me."

 

You can read my entire post at:  http://www.gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6335

 

jinks and I were good friends.  I really hoped it wasn't true.  Having absolutely no idea who you are and given that your post appeared as a first post here, I truly hoped it was a hoax and that jinks was ok.  Unfortunately, on these boards there are people who wouldn't be above doing something like that.  I know now that it wasn't a hoax and I'm very upset about his death.  His death has been confirmed by Surfcrest, the owner of the Sawatdee board on which jinks was a moderator.  I knew he was ill, but I did not know how seriously ill he actually was.

[Guest nakmuay]

That "dick" is probably me.  But that's not what I said at all and I made no such accusation.  What I said was, "I hope it will turn out to be someone's idea of a sick hoax, but the post does seem believable to me."

 

You can read my entire post at:  http://www.gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6335

 

jinks and I were good friends.  I really hoped it wasn't true.  Having absolutely no idea who you are and given that your post appeared as a first post here, I truly hoped it was a hoax and that jinks was ok.  Unfortunately, on these boards there are people who wouldn't be above doing something like that.  I know now that it wasn't a hoax and I'm very upset about his death.  His death has been confirmed by Surfcrest, the owner of the Sawatdee board on which jinks was a moderator.  I knew he was ill, but I did not know how seriously ill he actually was.

 

 

given current events and circumstances i may have been a little quick to get annoyed and not read the message properly and simply react.

 

I do not mean to do this but i am just doing my best to get word to all of his friends in the best way i know how.

 

I am glad you know him and were his friend but i was also very frustrated not being able to post the message on other forums where i know he was active. i hope you can bear with my inpatients at this time i really am just trying to do my best for my uncles memory.

[Gaybutton]

 i really am just trying to do my best for my uncles memory.

 

I understand perfectly and I'm sorry for what you're going through.  The last thing you need to worry about is a misunderstanding with me.  Don't give it another thought.

 

The last time I saw jinks was at a Take Care dinner in Pattaya.  We sat together and had a lot of fun.  Each of us won a door prize too.  He liked the prize I won and I liked the prize he won, so we traded.

 

Since then we communicated often via PMs on the boards.  He never said anything to me to indicate just how ill he was.  He wanted to return to Pattaya later this year.  I wish he could have.  I am truly deeply upset about his death and I will greatly miss him.  I already do.

[Guest ronthai]

Almost daily farangs die here in our beloved Thailand/Pattaya or like jinks at home, becuase they did not live here or needed to go home for the right medical (free) service.

I would like to point out and give the same great good blessings to ALL Gay Farangs who have died over the years, of which some had been members of one of the Gay Thailand boards, but just as a non-regular poster, a nobody, just like me.

When (hopefully many years/decades from now), I die, I am sure I will not be mentioned on any boards, just as so many before me whom have posted on most of them, but are just members who sometimes post and then are forgotten.

To jinks and ALL FORGOTTEN MEMBERS,

[Guest xiandarkthorne]

I only met Jinks a couple of times in Pattaya but we did communicate via PMs at various boards, especially after I left a certain board, and I always found him to be a gentleman.

 

RIP jinks (yes, he told me about never spelling his lo-in name with a capital J, too).

 

My condolences to his family.