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Simply remembering his animations I watched in 2005 and seeing his very recent blog post, it makes me very sad to know he is gone; even more so for the cause of his death and being so young :(

RIP Ben

At 10/23/09 04:31 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Rest in peace.

May I ask...How did he die?

an heroine overdose.

It's really sad to see stuff like this happening, although it is quite a warm feeling to see that so many people are remembering him, even without knowing him.

I guess that those who knew him must be filled with frustration tho...

heroin kicks ass

no hoax ... it's too, too, horribly true ... see my profile

Goodbye sweet angel, may the angels sing your name as you make flashes in heaven

thanks a lot ... this is his mom

At 10/25/09 04:00 PM, missdeal wrote: thanks a lot ... this is his mom

How do you feel that your son died of a Heroin Overdose?

I'm saddened to hear of this. I would like to send condolences to his family. The Newgrounds Memorial Page would be a great idea to honor great artists.

How did he die?

Rest In Peace

lets all feel bad for the heroin addict. he made his own choices and he got what he had coming.

Frankly, I don't feel sorry for him. It's his fault. Or, atleast, that's what I heard. If it was heroine overdose, then that's one less addict to arrest.

Wow, this is truly a pity.
I've heard of so many bad things happening from heroin, and they all make for sad stories.
I wish it could have gone differently, and I offer my condolences to his family and friends.
RIP.

At 10/23/09 04:36 PM, DaMiStudios wrote: Oh noes!

hope it was a natural and painless death.

Poor guy......... :(

R.I.P. dude

P.S.
if NG is to last the nxt cenury, will you be passing the torch toyour son as owner and operator?

Quite the opposite, sorry. He was a Heroine Druggy, and he died like that. I GIVE HHIM NO PITY!!!

At 10/23/09 04:28 PM, the-dz wrote: RIP Spurgin.

May you continue making flash in the afterlife, so the rest of us have something to look forward to.

Im with you.
R.I.P Ben

I remember watching the stick slayer series a long while back.

Sad to see an artist die though :/

This is a pretty disturbing flash someone decided to post of Ben Spurgin that i think is just wrong and you'll want to look into and remove. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/51 5727

The NG community lost a good and mad artist...
R.I.P. Ben Spurgin...
From Brazil!

I dont know the guy much but may he rest in peace. What did he die from? And when it happened? Im curious to know!

At 10/25/09 08:05 PM, twistedlord4 wrote: I dont know the guy much but may he rest in peace. What did he die from? And when it happened? Im curious to know!

heroin overdose a few days back

All I can say about this is R.I.P peace Ben Spurgin, you will never be forgotten by your fans and your flash will always be loved by your fans, rest in peace.

you know what is really sad? I thought it was a joke that his mom's user page said he died of heroin overdose. I feel like crap now...

I should have mentioned in my earlier posts that I loved Ben's PEE MAN series most of all. There were only 3 movies in it, so that's probably why people aren't mentioning it anywhere near as much as they're now mentioning Stick Slayer or Pimp's Quest, which yes... were more famous...

... But PEE MAN will always be what I remember him for, most of all. I'm sad there's no possibility of a PEE MAN IV, too... but what a great trilogy that is as it stands now. How lucky we are to have been graced by those peeful flashes. Long live PEE MAN.

(ahem)...

At 10/25/09 04:15 PM, misterchees0 wrote:

At 10/25/09 04:00 PM, missdeal wrote: thanks a lot ... this is his mom

How do you feel that your son died of a Heroin Overdose?

I dunno, and I doubt she's gonna tell you... but if I had a kid as talented as him who died of a drug overdose, I'd probably feel like I wish my kid hadn't died before I did, and had gotten to share his talent with even more people than he did before he ODed, but... I'd remember the best parts of our life together and the best parts of him or her and I'd try not to feel guilty for how I raised him or her. And I'd be glad that he or she had dedicated fans who enjoyed the work produced by the talent within my kid.

How does YOUR mom feel that you go around asking the mothers of dead 31-year-old artists how they "feel" about their songs dying due to a drug overdose? Asshole.

(the above isn't really only directed at this guy, BTW, it's at all of you self-righteous little punks who can't stop screaming "OMG HEROIN IS BAD, HE DIED, OMG, ROT IN HELL, HE DESERVED IT, ETC." Keep on judging, judging, judging, like the little fake religious people you were probably raised to be by your asshole parents, guys. I'm sure you'll NEVER receive any comeuppance later in life or anything... nah... karma ain't a bitch or anything... nahhhhh...)

At 10/25/09 08:37 PM, gfoxcook wrote: ... how they "feel" about their songs dying...

:::facepalms::: I guess my fingers are way more used to typing "songs" than "sons." Whoops. O_o

I'm pretty sure the pricks at whom I was directing that vitriol will get the point, though. When I posted earlier, I'd read the first two pages. I just read the other 8-9 pages just now and... yeah, felt like saying something on the subject.

tl;dr:

Let the man rest in peace already.

Sad to see a person in general die.

R.I.P.

At 10/25/09 05:05 PM, MrT1349 wrote:

At 10/23/09 04:36 PM, DaMiStudios wrote: Oh noes!

hope it was a natural and painless death.

Poor guy......... :(

R.I.P. dude

P.S.
if NG is to last the nxt cenury, will you be passing the torch toyour son as owner and operator?

Quite the opposite, sorry. He was a Heroine Druggy, and he died like that. I GIVE HHIM NO PITY!!!

I don't think how he dies really matters. Drug addict or not, he was really young. Sure it wasn't the wisest choice but at least feel sorry and have some respect for his family. They lost a loved one.

ok, uhmm, i don't know wjat happened, it seems people are mourning this animator. not to sound ignorant but, what happened if i may ask?

At 10/23/09 04:30 PM, TomFulp wrote: I like to think Ben would have found this amusing...

Yeah ...he probably would have.

At 10/25/09 09:36 PM, dudegiga wrote: ok, uhmm, i don't know wjat happened, it seems people are mourning this animator. not to sound ignorant but, what happened if i may ask?

Read a bit, friend. He died of a heroin overdose. And while yes, he shouldn't have been using heroin in the first place, I disagree with anyone who says he deserved to die. It's not like he was a bad person, he just made a poor choice. Rest in peace.

I disagree. He did not make a poor choice.

Addiction is a disease, not an option.
The first time you try heroin, its a choice.
But it alters your brain chemistry with the first dose. There are functional addicts who do not do heroin to get high, but to feel normal. Because not doing heroin leaves them shaky, sweaty, vomiting ...
I'm not sure of Ben's situation, but if he'd done heroin more than once, then he had a disease.

It's a really unfortunate situation, and I hope that Ben's family knows that there are people out there who care, and who appreciated Ben and his work.