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I did post it on his personal page, but in case no one knew, I am posting this in here as well.

To anyone who might read this, I got more precise details of his disappearance through his sister...And this will sound a bit like a rant, now that I am rereading this whole text.
I understand this could seem somewhat morbid, so you don't have to read this. The short answer is, his death was of natural causes...But I would have rather learned it was a stupid accident, such as being hit by a car or falling down some stairs.
Anyway, let's go with this.

:iconcrazy-wolf: passed away one year ago. On March the 12th 2014 he started feeling some pains in his left arm and went to see a doctor. He was told it was nothing and shouldn't worry too much about it. He went back home with his family (little sister and mother, from what I understood his father passed away years ago).
While they were watching TV, he stood up, did two steps and fell to the ground. He had heart attack, apparently due to thyroid problems he had been having. Her little sister tried CPR while waiting for the paramedics.
He was in coma when he arrived to the hospital and he had a second heart attack on the next day.
On Sunday March 17th, Johan, :iconcrazy-wolf:, was declared dead.
His remains are buried somewhere, probably nearby his town in Switzerland.

For one year I have been thinking it was an accident: hit by a car, falling down somewhere. I would have never imagined it was something like this: I didn't notice he was sick the few times we chatted...Though honestly, many of these illnesses lie beneath the surface, under the skin. It is not something you will know about unless you are told about it.
The moral of this story should be to take care of yourselves, and I know it can't be easy, depending on your personal health, or what kind of health care your country is offering you. It truly saddens me, and also infuriates me, that this kind of stuff is what ultimately killed him, at a rather young age, in a developed country (note: I am not implying anything like "well, if it was in deep Africa, I would understand it", since extreme worldwide inequalities tend to piss me off. Allow me to be naive and to believe that, one day, our civilization will reach a peek where worldwide affordable health care and health knowledge will exist, and equal opportunities for everybody, but I digress...).
What a waste of talent and skills, simply because his body couldn't keep up. He was older than me, it is so strange to think now that I am the older one. I promised myself to work on the comic-book we were planing on doing (he did provide me with some valuable hints, that evolved to be great parts of the plot), or at least something else, anything. I haven't done shit.
Well, maybe if I am unable to make up anything out of my life, you guys reading this can. :iconcrazy-wolf: did studies in arts, movies and script-writing, I have the feeling he was working in so many independent shorts, writing series scripts and working on pilots to try to get them approved by some TV-channel. He ultimately worked his butt off towards his art, his ideas, probably more than I ever will in my entire life.
And now he is dead.
He won't be coming back.
Any ideas he had, any other projects that were coming to fruition are now in the grave with him. As far as I'm concerned, any year above 30 is a luxury that he will never have.
So for those of us still around here, let's make something out of them.
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inuzaka Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2015  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
When I found out the news this past December hit me hard. For more reasons than one. He had made a request of me. One I put off for so long and when I finally did it, I did not immediately show him. I did tell him I made it and would scan it and send it that weekend, but I never did. Time passed and I had lost it. In december before I found out he passed I had found it again and was so relieved and was going to let him know on the new years. But then... I couldn't believe what I read. I posted one of his picks for a #footpawfriday thing on twitter and someone had mentioned how they missed his art and it was unfortunate he passed. This was while I was at work, just starting work actually when I read that and I was in disbelief thinking it was a mistake or something and when I was assured it was the same person I was in complete remorse. So much, that when a co-worker, technically my higher up, chastised about me being on the phone I snapped and yelled at all of them. Once the yelling started I couldn't contain my emotions and needed a moment to calm down.

He was my favorite artist and he enjoyed my art so much he asked a request from me. My favorite artist asking a request from me? And now he'll never see it. I felt like a complete dick, I wanted to rewind time to fix my error. never before did I feel so out of place, helpless, confused and miserable. I've learned a lesson from this. If I make a promise, I should be sure to follow through and not procrastinate because you never know when someone will leave you.

Guess you and I are of different opinions when it comes to the circumstances of his death. If it was an accident, it would make me feel more angry because I would have felt he was robbed. Natural causes to me is less painful in a way but still there is an unfairness to how young he died and that no one could do anything about it nor was a professional even able to diagnose the problem. 
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Xss- Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2015  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I'm sorry to hear his death hit you that hard. :( Be careful not to let your emotions overwhelm you, specially at work: 10 minutes after learning about his passing, I had to go and teach and try not to think to much about it for two hours while in front of my students :/
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DashadyAlien Featured By Owner Mar 15, 2015  Hobbyist General Artist
Yea thats sad indeed, unfortunally things like that are like sometimes impossible to know without a real good search. You go to doctors for some advice but they can't know everything. Like me , i felt a few heartbeats that where very hard and i went to a heartdoctor but coulden't find anything. It's things like these you wish humans had like an auto system check every month.

Anyway life sometimes moves in mysterious ways. Am shure there are stories out there that are special.
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Xss- Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2015  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ouch, dude, I am sorry to hear that. Hope it is nothing too serious, take care of yourself! :(
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DashadyAlien Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2015  Hobbyist General Artist
Oh no nothing serious , don't know what coused it rly but that whas a few years ago. Since then i stoped drinking lots of coke-light to water and everything is better.

Still it's a bit frightning becouse you never know when your hart will fail becouse of something. One moment your feeling perfectly fine and then boom it hits you without even knowing how or why.

Now our hospitals and so on are super but i think like many we don't wonna go there becouse we don't whant to go over something that clears up after a while. Unless something is realy hurting and keep on hurting for a long period , then id go to see a doc.

Plus i also had a slight unpleasent encounter with hospitals. I know i shoulden't say oh they al suck like it but it's the human nature i guess that keeps me from going after that. I had like something ripped in my right knee when working. The boss drove me to ER, i hopped in becouse it hurt badly, registered myself in, after 15 min or so ( since i wasen't bleeding i guess ) some guy ( probably a nurse ) just looked at it saying there is nothing wrong with it. Realy nothing but looking and he could tell if i whas in pain or not... anyway went to see my house doc the same day. He at least excammined my leg and hurt badly when he twisted it and so forth. Said i sprained some muscles got a week off to recover. Still had pains in my knee week and months after that. After 9 months of pain and unease when doing certain movements i went to a diffren't hospital and had some scans. Turns out my miniscus whas snapped in my knee. Got that out and all is good now.

So you see my faith in docs and hospitals are a bit low. They are hard working people and have to take a lot of crap from other people and all but if i don't have to go i rather avoid going.
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Xss- Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2015  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Geez, I am sorry about that, but true, you will find some unprofessional people everywhere :/
I personally am okay with hospital. My mother had to spend so much time in those that I am a bit used to.
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DashadyAlien Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2015  Hobbyist General Artist
Ah well it's been a few years aswel and all is good now.
Yea one place sucks while the other is the place to be.
It is a place to get better tough sometimes it can end up in some bad experiances.
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Lu-1 Featured By Owner Mar 14, 2015
Yeah, the unfortunate thing is like you said, illnesses are not always known until its too late. My grandmother, who was still full of life, passed away back in December, it shocked us all, turned out she had an illness that had been there for a long time that none of us, not even her, was at all aware of. Death creeps up to us, and its a shame when takes away a young life. I hope you do keep working on the comic, it would be so great to see it finished and a great dedication to your friend. :)
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Xss- Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2015  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It would be the task of a lifetime for me :P First I would need to work on another test-comic, simply to brush up my skills (and knowing myself, that would at least take forever). I would need to learn about drawing cities landscapes with perspective, drawing machinery (quite some steampunk elements), monsters, character design, action scenes, emotional scenes, pages of dialogs without having them look boring and tedious...Oooh, so much work: joy ^^"
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Lu-1 Featured By Owner Apr 14, 2015
I think you got the talent :)
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LongTom Featured By Owner Mar 14, 2015  Hobbyist
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LongTom Featured By Owner Mar 14, 2015  Hobbyist
My late aunt, who once worked for a doctor had said that doctors don't know things, they just guess.  There's plenty of people who have health problems and nobody notices them until it is too late.
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Xss- Featured By Owner Mar 14, 2015  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Indeed. My mother had thyroid cancer almost 20 years ago and it is amazing how randomly it had been detected.
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