I'm slightly confused. Though everyone states that it is a life threatening disease he has, I read his blog and I just can't see it. For one, I'm sure if someone was going to die knowing all that, they wouldn't blog about a Pokemon forum. I just don't see that happening. I could see them telling some of their friends of what was going to happen, but blogging about it seems far-fetched to me. I mean, this is the internet. Someone could easily say something that's untrue (I'm not saying that's what he's doing, I'm using this as an example) and is, in reality, far from it. It's just hard to know what's going on in everyone's life without actually being there in person. Now, I'm just looking at all the possibilities here because he didn't exactly say what was wrong with him at all. And people keep saying it doesn't matter what is wrong with him, when really it does because people obviously care. If it didn't matter what is wrong with him, then this thread wouldn't even be put up. And I feel the need to state that even though I'm one of the people who don't really understand what's going on as I've never talked to him, I'm not trying to bash him, his friends, or this subject in general. I've read over this thread multiple times and continue to see "emo" being used and some people overreacting of it's usage. Sure we all know what the typical definition of emo is, but I really would suggest that you learn more about the word before you overreact about someone using it. Overall, I'm just shocked at how people are confused why some members don't know what's going on and want to... Since when was that type of curiousity a bad thing?
All in all, before some people overreact,
a) I'm not saying he's lying about it.
b) I'm not saying we shouldn't care.
c) I'm not saying that he's "the typical emo".
d) I would like to know what's going on, as would the majority of the people who replied.
e) It does matter what's going on even though some people believe otherwise.
f) Being curious and trying to find out what happened is not a negative thing in this case.
g) Some people really do need to grow up in this situation.
With all that said, the blog entry itself just seems to me like he's just leaving the community. Otherwise he would have included more aspects of his life offline than his life online. I mean, I know of about seven people out of all my friends from online that I would tell if something serious happened to me. I wouldn't want it getting around and then causing drama like this seems to be happening, so I would speak privately to the individuals and let "fate" or whatever may be guiding us, take it's course.
And that's just my intake in this situation. If this really is a disease, I do wish him the best of luck in a hearty recovery.