I've heard heart attack. So very sad. I want to post condolences on her FB page or SSD thread, but I didn't really "know" her very well and don't want to be seen as the outsider just offering condolences.
Seems odd to me. On Hallowe'en, out of the blue, someone creates an account on the SSD forum using the name of Eva's husband and posts a vague message suggesting she's 'gone'. No specific mention that she's passed away, only that he's 'lost' her, no details, nothing. There's nothing on her blog, nothing on DST. Just this one strange post from someone who up until today didn't exist on the SSD forum.
I don't know whether I hope it's a cruel windup or not. Just seems extremely odd.
#5- I was thinking the same thing but then I thought Robin wouldn't let the post stay up if it wasn't true. If it is really true then I feel really bad for her family and it's sad.
The digital design world is saddened by the death of Eva Kipler. Maybe rather then smaking each other and being nasty you can take a few minutes just to remember a very lovely lady and wish her family some condolences. -----
Appreciate the sentiment but she is a complete stranger to me.
I don't think it's insensitive. Things like this happen every day online. Believe it or not, some people aren't 100% truthful or ethical. I know, it's shocking. I think it's a fair thing to wonder about. Before I threw my money at a fundraiser for her, I'd want to know that Robin has confirmed it as fact.
I don't know her at all and was never a fan of her products, so I didn't follow her. I do think it's sad when someone so young passes, though, and my heart does go out to her family. It makes you think about your own life and mortality regardless...
I do think asking people to stop posting things on the smack blog because some person died is crazy, though. Especially since you came here to read the blog yourself. Almost everyone's life will continue as normal since most people didn't know the designer herself.
There's not a charity kit yet and I don't believe there is one in the works. Her family may not be in need of charity. So I don't think you need to be thinking that far ahead yet. She posted on goodreads a couple days ago. This must have been very recent and sudden. Give it time for the pieces to fall together. I'm sure an obit will be released soon.
Oh dear God in Heaven! You people are seriously questioning whether or not she is indeed deceased? I really hope her family doesn't hear about this ridiculous nonsense. Yeah, I'm sure someone pretending to be her husband posted that she died. Paranoid much?
Yeah, that's right. A successful and productive digital scrapbook designer faked her death just so that she could run off with the proceeds of a charity kit (that hasn't been created yet, btw) which would probably yield about 2-3 months of her normal income. She no doubt plans to come back under a different design name later and work her way back up the ranks into one of the top stores in the idustry.
Since it was Sara who posted on Eva's blog why didn't she just post it at SSD for Eva's husband? Something doesn't add up to me. ----
What? How does that not add up? Blogs require permissions etc to post if it's a group blog, but anyone can join a forum and post. That's probably why the husband posted at SSD and Sara, as head CT for Eva, posted on the blog. Not to mention that the husband would have known before Sara.
#24 - I was referring to every poster who adds much, not just you, so don't take it so personally. I'd think by your age you would have mellowed out by now.
You can say whatever you want, but it won't stop you sounding like a moron. Your choice.
Does anyone know if Eva was sick? Or maybe struggling with depression? It looks like she hadn't released anything new in the last couple months, and no blog posts, nor facebook... Just wondering if there was something going on that no one knew about...
#37 - not being a nanny, just expressing my opinion and on how moronic it sounds and making a polite request. If requests make me sound like a 'nanny' to you, you have issues.
#38 - don't have to be sick to have heart issues. One day you are fine and the next you aren't. I knew a 21 year old who had a heart attack. It happens.
No, I'm not suggesting that, I guess I was just thinking out loud. It is so unexpected, sad, and downright shocking, that I think a lot of people would like to have the question answered, "what on earth happened?"
This fascination people have with why someone died is morbid and disgusting. And before anyone asks, I'm the same about celebrity deaths, I don't care how they died, they died, that's all I need to know. I'm not a voyeur.
People aren't "voyeurs" because they want to know what happened to someone they knew, even if only online. Your thinly-veiled insults are more disgusting than anyone's natural curiosity and questions.
#40 your request was far from polite and it was a directive. You have no right telling anyone how or what to post. So..piss off. Like my polite request?
Why am I an asshole? Because I'm not curious about a complete stranger's death?
My insults were not thinly veiled whatsoever. People having curiosity about the death of someone they don't really know is not natural curiosity, it's morbid curiosity.
#40 your request was far from polite and it was a directive. You have no right telling anyone how or what to post. So..piss off. Like my polite request? ------
It was a polite request, I used the word please. I have every right to tell you what to post, it doesn't mean you have to adhere to it. Freedom of speech and all. So, fuck off moron, much!
Freedom of speech doesn't apply here, you idiot. You can tell people how to post if you like, that is correct, AND that is why I called you the Forum Nanny!!!!
I love this community, and I even love some people in it. I love how we rally around those who need it. I love our generosity and willingness to help others in a crisis.
In a community like ours, we get to know each other, we learn about partners, children, extended families, friends etc. We worry about them when they are going through bad times, or if there is a natural disaster etc. When we get close to someone we feel their pain and their happiness, we share their losses and their joys.
The community as a whole has a big heart, and a lot of people will be feeling Eva's death today. To feel sad about the death of someone you have become close to is natural. The fact that someone needs closure about the death of a person in our community does not make them a voyeur.
Please don't use the death of one of our own to smack those who require closure to deal with it.
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I've heard heart attack. So very sad. I want to post condolences on her FB page or SSD thread, but I didn't really "know" her very well and don't want to be seen as the outsider just offering condolences.
Seems odd to me. On Hallowe'en, out of the blue, someone creates an account on the SSD forum using the name of Eva's husband and posts a vague message suggesting she's 'gone'. No specific mention that she's passed away, only that he's 'lost' her, no details, nothing. There's nothing on her blog, nothing on DST. Just this one strange post from someone who up until today didn't exist on the SSD forum.
I don't know whether I hope it's a cruel windup or not. Just seems extremely odd.
#5- I was thinking the same thing but then I thought Robin wouldn't let the post stay up if it wasn't true. If it is really true then I feel really bad for her family and it's sad.
#5 - I was hoping that was the case when I first read it this morning, but it's been long enough now that I fear the post is true.
People are posting on her facebook page and not just scrapbookers.
I don't see any posts on her FB that aren't from digi scrap people.
The digital design world is saddened by the death of Eva Kipler. Maybe rather then smaking each other and being nasty you can take a few minutes just to remember a very lovely lady and wish her family some condolences.
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Appreciate the sentiment but she is a complete stranger to me.
Why so suspicious? Don't you think she would have noticed by now if someone was pulling something like that? It's really insensitive.
I'm not seeing any posts on her FB page
https://www.facebook.com/EvaK.Designs
But there are posts on the SSD page. It would only be digi scrap people as it's a digi scrap store page.
there are posts on her personal page
https://www.facebook.com/eva.kipler
I don't think it's insensitive. Things like this happen every day online. Believe it or not, some people aren't 100% truthful or ethical. I know, it's shocking. I think it's a fair thing to wonder about. Before I threw my money at a fundraiser for her, I'd want to know that Robin has confirmed it as fact.
I don't know her at all and was never a fan of her products, so I didn't follow her. I do think it's sad when someone so young passes, though, and my heart does go out to her family. It makes you think about your own life and mortality regardless...
I do think asking people to stop posting things on the smack blog because some person died is crazy, though. Especially since you came here to read the blog yourself. Almost everyone's life will continue as normal since most people didn't know the designer herself.
There's not a charity kit yet and I don't believe there is one in the works. Her family may not be in need of charity. So I don't think you need to be thinking that far ahead yet. She posted on goodreads a couple days ago. This must have been very recent and sudden. Give it time for the pieces to fall together. I'm sure an obit will be released soon.
Thanks #13
All you ghouls must be out trick or treating?
Nope. It's already November where I am.
I'm hoping they leave her store open and maybe Robin will give 100% to her family.
For those who still think it is a joke
http://evakipler.com/?p=4319
I don't see how that blog post proves anything. I'm sure it's not a joke, but it's certainly not proof.
#21 So what do you want a photo to prove it?
Oh dear God in Heaven! You people are seriously questioning whether or not she is indeed deceased? I really hope her family doesn't hear about this ridiculous nonsense. Yeah, I'm sure someone pretending to be her husband posted that she died. Paranoid much?
For the love of everything scrappy, please stop putting the word 'much' at the end of a sentence, it makes you sound moronic (and out of date)
#21 So what do you want a photo to prove it?
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She didn't say she wanted proof, as she doesn't think it's a joke. She was merely pointing out that a blog post is not proof, which it isn't.
I really hope her family doesn't hear about this ridiculous nonsense.
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Then the one to blame would be the one who told them.
Since it was Sara who posted on Eva's blog why didn't she just post it at SSD for Eva's husband? Something doesn't add up to me.
Yeah, that's right. A successful and productive digital scrapbook designer faked her death just so that she could run off with the proceeds of a charity kit (that hasn't been created yet, btw) which would probably yield about 2-3 months of her normal income. She no doubt plans to come back under a different design name later and work her way back up the ranks into one of the top stores in the idustry.
Makes total sense to me.
Since it was Sara who posted on Eva's blog why didn't she just post it at SSD for Eva's husband? Something doesn't add up to me.
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What? How does that not add up? Blogs require permissions etc to post if it's a group blog, but anyone can join a forum and post. That's probably why the husband posted at SSD and Sara, as head CT for Eva, posted on the blog. Not to mention that the husband would have known before Sara.
#28- Sadly, I can honestly say I think that could happen. Not with Eva though.
#29- I think that with all the shady things that go on in this community people honestly don't believe things even if it's true. Can you blame us? No.
That blog post wasn't put up until later this evening.
#27 You're coming across as ridiculous. Just.stop.now
I think that with all the shady things that go on in this community people honestly don't believe things even if it's true.
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I know, I was just pointing out that the thing that supposedly didn't add up or make sense, did, in fact, make sense.
#24 since I am the ripe old age of 74 I can and will say anything I damn well please. How's that much?
#24 - I was referring to every poster who adds much, not just you, so don't take it so personally. I'd think by your age you would have mellowed out by now.
You can say whatever you want, but it won't stop you sounding like a moron. Your choice.
#34...goes to show ya that wisdom doesn't always come with age.
#32 that poster doesn't sound half as idiotic as you do trying to be the forum nanny.
Does anyone know if Eva was sick? Or maybe struggling with depression? It looks like she hadn't released anything new in the last couple months, and no blog posts, nor facebook... Just wondering if there was something going on that no one knew about...
I see in her shop that she did have some new releases, just not new blog or facebook posts. My mistake. (I'm #38)
#37 - not being a nanny, just expressing my opinion and on how moronic it sounds and making a polite request. If requests make me sound like a 'nanny' to you, you have issues.
#38 - don't have to be sick to have heart issues. One day you are fine and the next you aren't. I knew a 21 year old who had a heart attack. It happens.
sounds to me like #38 is suggesting she took her life. Mighty big leap there!
No, I'm not suggesting that, I guess I was just thinking out loud. It is so unexpected, sad, and downright shocking, that I think a lot of people would like to have the question answered, "what on earth happened?"
This fascination people have with why someone died is morbid and disgusting. And before anyone asks, I'm the same about celebrity deaths, I don't care how they died, they died, that's all I need to know. I'm not a voyeur.
What happened has been posted on the previous page: she had a heart attack and passed away in the hospital.
Oh, I didn't see that - thank you.
People aren't "voyeurs" because they want to know what happened to someone they knew, even if only online. Your thinly-veiled insults are more disgusting than anyone's natural curiosity and questions.
#44 you might not be a voyeur but you're certainly an asshole.
#40 your request was far from polite and it was a directive. You have no right telling anyone how or what to post. So..piss off. Like my polite request?
Why am I an asshole? Because I'm not curious about a complete stranger's death?
My insults were not thinly veiled whatsoever. People having curiosity about the death of someone they don't really know is not natural curiosity, it's morbid curiosity.
#40 your request was far from polite and it was a directive. You have no right telling anyone how or what to post. So..piss off. Like my polite request?
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It was a polite request, I used the word please. I have every right to tell you what to post, it doesn't mean you have to adhere to it. Freedom of speech and all. So, fuck off moron, much!
Freedom of speech doesn't apply here, you idiot. You can tell people how to post if you like, that is correct, AND that is why I called you the Forum Nanny!!!!
#50 who in the hell are you to say what's normal and what's not?
I love this community, and I even love some people in it. I love how we rally around those who need it. I love our generosity and willingness to help others in a crisis.
In a community like ours, we get to know each other, we learn about partners, children, extended families, friends etc. We worry about them when they are going through bad times, or if there is a natural disaster etc. When we get close to someone we feel their pain and their happiness, we share their losses and their joys.
The community as a whole has a big heart, and a lot of people will be feeling Eva's death today. To feel sad about the death of someone you have become close to is natural. The fact that someone needs closure about the death of a person in our community does not make them a voyeur.
Please don't use the death of one of our own to smack those who require closure to deal with it.
That is all.
Well said. Thanks.
I (an idle reader) was getting uncomfortable as well.
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