Mark 'Chopper' Read has died

[daydream**believer]

He was 58 years old

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/soapbox/article/-/19320733/mark-chopper-read-dead/

[purple_haize]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

someone has because he couldn't give a 12yr old an organ he was going to receive if he wasn't even a candidate for that organ

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He had liver cancer, an organ replacement was offered to him, he said he couldnt take it, when someone else needed it and he said he didnt deserve to have a transplant.

[azureline**]

PH, he was not offered a liver.

Read said he wasn't a candidate for a transplant because of scar tissue around his liver, caused by former associate Jimmy Loughnan during a stabbing "sneak-go" in Pentridge Prison in 1979.

[izabsmiling]

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@am*3 wrote:

Why was he in an orphanage for the first 5 years of his life?.  After that he lived with both his parents, for a few years at least.

His mother a strict Seventh Day Adventist.. why did she put her baby son in an orphanage and leave him there for 5 years?

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for any of the same reasons children are placed  in care now .Why would religion exclude that happening ?

(this is not to you or any one poster specific Am3)

I feel for any family who mourn the loss of a loved one.If he was a member of my family I do think that I may have expected to hear of his passing for the majority of his adult life

imo watching a loved one suffer over a long period of time with a terminal illness makes it easier to see the passing as a relief for them.

[azureline**]

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@clair.de.lune wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:

I suppose it is possible he made up his past.

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I suppose you've never taken speed

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No, never, nor any other illegal drugs................not even marijuana............

[Anonymous]

MBR would love this thread IMO !!

Notoriety and all that !!

Agree pepe !

[Anonymous]

Missed a page ..lol

I know people that have named their kids after him ..what the !

Minny thugs !

[meh_too]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Missed a page ..lol

I know people that have named their kids after him ..what the !

Minny thugs !

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My cat is named after him, and my cat is a thug too - also has part of his ear missing after fighting

[azureline**]

I am constantly amazed at the memory lapses when someone passes......they were all lovely people, kind hearted, do anything for anyone.................never a cross word.........

[clair.de.lune]

Oh az do not judge

[green.fields]

Yes that would be about right Az. People have very short memories at times. He was a thug and thrived on the limelight.