Comments on: passed tense.

By: Margie Cook

Margie Cook — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:23:16 +0000

I lived with Greg Mergen for almost a year back in ’94. He was a roommate only, not a friend. He made sure of that. If you can still access his blog, I’m the one he called “Flarge”. He wrote of playing mind games with me and cheating me out of my money, and he told lies about me, accusing me of abusing and abandoning my cats (which became his cats) when I am very active in the rescue community and would never do such a thing. His blog hurt me tremendously. I read it after hearing that he had passed away.
I never heard what killed him. I doubt it was suicide. His partner, Adam, at the time I knew them, told me that they prefer to befriend only those persons who are worthy of befriending…. and I was not worthy. So you can imagine that I do not carry any good memories of the boyz. Maybe he was just being adversely affected by Adam and was really a good person. I hope so. But his blog says otherwise.

By: Uncle Crappy

Uncle Crappy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:25:06 +0000

I still don’t know what happened, but the fact that Greg’s friends are still commenting on this post — almost three years after the fact — is a pretty solid demonstration of how important he was to a lot of people.

By: John Hammink

John Hammink — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:42:32 +0000

I also knew Greg Mergen from high school, (from a distance) and really couldn’t help liking the guy. As with Denise, I also read about this on the reunion page. Does anyone one know what happened? What a loss.

By: Denise Knuff

Denise Knuff — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:28:04 +0000

I just found out about Greg’s passing and your blog came up first in my search to find out what happened. Greg and I went to school together, were practically inseparable through most of high school and even went to prom together… He dyed his hair pink for the occasion :-) I am in such shock. Greg was the most fabulously intelligent and arrogant man I have ever known (even though we were only kids). I just can’t believe it… Sometime toward the end of college, Greg stopped writing to me. I moved to NYC after college and have very few connections left in our hometown, so I’m not surprised that it took me so long to find out (saw it on our high school reunion page this morning). Damn.

By: Kelley Skidmore

Kelley Skidmore — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:22:49 +0000

I was in orchestra with Greg from junior high through high school. I was living in Chicago when my Mother sent me Greg’s obit. I could never find out what happened either.

By: Uncle Crappy

Uncle Crappy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:37:20 +0000

David: I never did hear what happened with Greg, and I didn’t feel like I knew him well enough to contact his family about his death. I guess my assumptions haven’t changed, even though suicide makes even less sense than usual in Greg’s case. And unfortunately, I didn’t do anything to record what was left of Greg’s blog, and it appears that even cached pages are long gone from Google. I have a little time to poke around later tonight — if I come across anything, I’ll let you know.

By: David Taylor

David Taylor — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:52:13 +0000

Do you have any more information on Greg? I just learned of his death.

I did not know him well, but he was one of the few people (and gay), who I enjoyed talking to at law school.

Did you by chance capture his blog? I would like to read the entries you are referring to.

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