<p>I am so shocked and saddened by this news.<br>
Rest in Peace LTS, as I do not think you will ever know the number of lives you have touched with such grace and humor. I would be proud to wear red shoes in your honor.</p>
<p>Well Done, Well Done Good and Faithful Servant!!</p>
<p>to LTSDaughter, may God comfort you in your hour of bereavement and may you take solace in knowing that your mom was truly a remarkable woman and we have all been so blessed to have known her.</p>
<p>ebeeee, hard times, indeed. Yet they are a reminder of the common truth we all share … we are not on this earth forever. What we do while here is the legacy we leave. We don’t have to be rich or famous, just good people. I think that’s what really drew me to LTS. She never forgot that she was one of the fortunate ones. Even when she had to fight for her rights with doctors, she took the time to wonder how she might be able to help those who were unable to do so for themselves. And less than two weeks ago, LTS offered advice to justoutofcollege, who has been struggling recently. Thinking of others even as she battled for her own life … as I told her on more than one occassion, LTS is my hero.</p>
<p>Of course LTS’s daughter should be consulted and involved in all.</p>
<p>And there are ways to protect privacy if that is most desired.</p>
<p>Scholarship is a lovely idea, but LTS herself was more committed to patient care and helping cancer patients so I would think a foundation would focus its efforts there.</p>
<p>Then, sadly, there are many young people getting cancer diagnoses. A scholarship for young cancer victims might marry both ideas.</p>
<p>I would like to see us carry out the agenda that LTS wanted to survive to be able to carry out herself. I am sure I could never never do as good as job, but maybe all of us together could.</p>
<p>Through many private conversations she stressed her concern for other cancer victims; they were very often foremost in her mind.</p>
<p>I would not put it past LTS to have made arrangements to notify us! She was always thinking of others before herself.</p>
<p>I thought I remembered her saying that her daughter had no idea about CC. I know she posted some personal information about her daughter that I believe she would not want her daughter to necessarily read everything she shared with us. As far as the post about LTS, I do think her daughter will get some comfort from them in the future, so I would love to see those threads made available to her. Maybe a bound copy once it is figured out how to get them all printed?</p>
<p>I just got home from work and logged on to see how LTS was doing. I have “lurked” on her thread for months and although I never posted, I thought of her everyday. Last night at 10 pm I said my prayer for her and said another one when I went to sleep. I knew I would log on today and see sad news - it wasn’t like her not to post.
I will miss her courage, her sense of humor. I admired her for many things - her love for her daughter, her loyalty to her friends, her fierce determination, her enthusiasm for life and living it well. I know I speak for many here that we wish we actually had the opportunity to meet her in person and not just on-line.
God Bless LTS and her daughter too.</p>
<p>From reading her posts over the past 2 years, I can only picture LTS going through those pearly gates kicking and screaming - ready to take charge. It’s not the peaceful image most think of, but she was one tough broad. I mean that in only the best sense!</p>
<p>I’m terribly sad to read this. I’ve periodically lurked on the support thread, and have been impressed, as everyone has, by LTS’s character. My deepest sympathies to her family and friends.</p>
<p>And PADAD, thank you for the wonderful poems.</p>
<p>LTS, thank you for the incredible gift you gave us over the past year. Be at peace, my friend.</p>
<p>It comes as a big shock to me. I normally read this thread before bed. But last night a friend called with some type of crisis. I didnt know until this morning while was on the phone with my companys bank. While waiting for answer for a problem, I went to cc, shocking to see this very sad news. My teals came down and I couldnt even finish the phone call.
Its so hard to describe the emotion that involved when read this thread, and I was so inspired by LTSs upbeat attitude and so much wanting her to make it.</p>
<p>My heart goes to LTS’s daughter, lost my own dear mother 15 years ago, my heart still aches from the pain. May God comfort her; help her through this great loss.</p>
<p>To LTS’s daughter, I don’t think you can appreciate at your young age, just how deeply your mother touched SO many lives. </p>
<p>And, this site provided her a very important place, a refuge filled with hope and comfort when the “other” sites were filled with despair and sadness. She chose to stay here (with this wonderful group of internet souls) right to the end.</p>
<p>As any daughter you may read some of her posts and threads here on the CC, and be surprised with what you read. </p>
<p>Please know that she needed this site and everyone here benefited from her spunk, sprint and wonderful tenacity. </p>
<p>She was loved by the mosiac of humanity she wove together- from all corners of this globe, all religious and political backgrounds. If you read more of CC threads you will realize that this is “CC’s finest” thread, and your mother created it all. </p>
<p>She brought out the best in everyone. For this, we thank her, and we pray for you and the other caretakers.</p>
<p>With sincere sympathy from South Jersey</p>
<p>Very, very sad. My sympathies to the daughter. Marite, thanks for the update.</p>
<p>Just got back from dinner with my family. As I walked out of the restaurant, I was greeted with a beautiful, bright rainbow … I could see the entire arch. There was a second rainbow right next to it. And off to the side, going the other way … as if taking its leave … was yet another rainbow.</p>
<p>Oh my, what sad news to read. I have been out-of-the-CC loop the past few days and didn’t realize that this was happening. So sad to be reading this, but all I can say is that although I am still relatively new to CC, LTS has been a source of inspiration to me as well, and she will be greatly missed. To her DD, although I only “knew” your mom through this wonderful website, she was a wonderful and courageous woman and she will be sadly missed by all of us who had the pleasure of “knowing” her. May she rest in peace…</p>
<p>“Death the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.” </p>
<p>Sir Walter Scott </p>
<p>Rest in peace, LTS. You touched us all and yours was a life well lived. We will miss you.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize this was going to happen. (I didn’t read the thread about support to LTS. I can’t handle medical bad news). Hope she walks in peace and best wishes to her family.</p>
<p>Thank you for posting the word from LTS’s D, marite.</p>
<p>I don’t have a rest in peace feeling about LTS. Not on earth and not in heaven either.</p>
<p>LTS you brave brave girl.
Let it rip, baby.<br>
Dance on those clouds.<br>
Run across those galaxies.
Let us hear the rumble of thunder and think of your force of will.
Let us see those streaks of lightning and remember how you tore it up.</p>
<p>Godspeed, darling girl, godspeed.</p>
<p>I hope the MODS pass the CC LTS sign in and passwords to LTS’s D so that she may wander through her mother’s thoughts and reactions–unfiltered. So much of her daughter’s history is on this website. What a gift it will be when she discovers that secret diary. </p>
<p>Won’t she be amazed to read her mother’s electric descriptions of herself and her achievements? It will be a window into her mother’s soul. MODS, open that window for her, please.</p>
<p>Perhaps a couple of posters who knew LTS & her D personally should go over and “edit” the postings before they are presented to her D. In all her many postings, there may be things about her D that would best be edited out, and even in her cancer postings, there may be things that she might have prefered not to share with her D because she posted them with us. Given the many, many pages of postings over the years, it is perhaps not necessary to include every single word. </p>
<p>Also, I would suggest maybe an appendix with all the quotations, poems, songs, etc. There were so many wonderful ones and inspiration stories posted by Epistrophy and others.</p>
<p>mootmom, I like the red shoe collage idea. I’ll try to send you mine. (post #97)</p>
<p>Japanese death poems</p>
<p>Many months ago, I posted something on the other LTS thread (#1016) about an unusual collection of poetry, *Japanese Death Poems<a href=“compiled%20by%20Yoel%20Hoffmann”>/i</a>, which consists of poems - most of them tiny (by Western standards) - drawn from a poetic tradition in which a last poem would be composed when death seemed imminent.</p>
<p>Here are a handful of them, in English translation:</p>
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<p>–Basho (1694)</p>
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<p>–Kiko (1823)</p>
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<p>–Ranseki (1782)</p>
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<p>–Yayu (1783)</p>
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<p>–Roshu (1899)</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death: Yoel Hoffmann: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Death-Poems-Written-Monks/dp/0804831793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218678464&sr=1-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Death-Poems-Written-Monks/dp/0804831793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218678464&sr=1-1)</p>
<p>Ohhh, I am so sad to hear this news. 
I have been a bit afraid to read this thread recently, worrying that LTS was getting worse - (and extra concerned, as my MIL is dealing with lung cancer). Wrong of me to keep my head in the sand… My condolences to the CC community and to her daughter and friends and coworkers on the passing of such wonderful person.</p>