progosk (Philip Rogosky) dead in Rome, 2024 at 56
image (C) the Daily Mail
via METRO: In March 2024, 'On Sunday, the body of Philip Rogosky, 56, was found by a passerby in Insugherata Park with a plastic bag near his face, ‘connected with a tube to a helium tank’ – leaving more questions than answers for his family.’
Remarks his wife, ‘He’s been in remote corners of the world and always came back. It’s just absurd that he went out to chuck the garbage across the street and just disappeared. Everyone close to him is surprised.’
Commenter biogeo:
Last year, in a thread on the Blue about MetaFilter itself, he wrote this comment, which I saw just now:
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I think I suffer from a similar type of aphasia that has kept me from successfully connecting screennames to full-fledged personas, but there has been a (periodically reconfiguring) number of contributors here that have consistently made the blue (and its gamut of spaces) a unique ecological niche on the internet for years now, making it a homestead to so many of us. There’s no denying the Gesamtkunstwerk of it, warts and all. It’s rare to see real-word attempts at actually making things better, something that, even in failure, surely sets an example to draw hope (or other inspiration) from. A kind of epic. And a privilege - thanks to all for keeping on keeping on.
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I think he put it very well. I fortunately don't suffer from his aphasia, as he put it, and so I remember him as he presented himself to us here, one of our fellow homesteaders in this unique ecological niche on the Internet. He'll be missed here. My deepest condolences to his family and friends.
I’ve tagged the post to remain at the top for a lil
I’m really saddened by the loss, even though he gave up on antville some time ago. I’m a commenter on Metafilter so I saw him over there, but had little idea of him killing himself, or otherwise.
That's shocked me somewhat I do recall him well, and gave him a bit of a ribbing once, twice or three! Sad! My respects and condolences to his family
This is still a really bad loss i m book. He was a very unique person at least on here. :| <3
