So long, lil' buddy.

September 7, 2005 1:30 AM

Bob Denver, best known for his role on Gilligan's Island as Gilligan, died today as a result of complications from cancer treatments.
posted by Effigy2000 (6 comments total)

Interestingly, the Gilligan Must Die website, discussed on Metafilter back in 2000, is down. Whether it's a result of this sad event or whether it's simply an abandoned site, I don't know. But let me be the first to say;

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posted by Effigy2000 at 1:31 AM on September 7, 2005

I wonder how many people actually die from the effects of chemo, or from possible mismanagement of chemo treatments? (on the part of the doctors/clinicians etc...) My Dad almost did.
posted by Liosliath at 1:36 AM on September 7, 2005

Whoops. Double post. Very sorry folks. I honestly did a search for it, but it came up with nothing. Delete away.
posted by Effigy2000 at 1:36 AM on September 7, 2005

Oh, phooey, I didn't see the first one either. I blame it on insomnia and a very heavy dose of MeFi over the last few days - my brain is focusing on all the Katrina links.
posted by Liosliath at 1:48 AM on September 7, 2005

Liosliath >>> "I wonder how many people actually die from the effects of chemo, or from possible mismanagement of chemo treatments? (on the part of the doctors/clinicians etc...) My Dad almost did."

I've heard more than one doctor say, roughly, that the process of chemotherapy is essentially that of killing the tumour before you kill the patient.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 2:04 AM on September 7, 2005

I imagine someday in the future, people will look back on chemotherapy the way we look back on trepanning.
posted by nightchrome at 2:30 AM on September 7, 2005