[identity profile] pywacket.livejournal.com 2005-07-21 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
he left the public last year because he was very ill (parkinsons and diabetes) and had been diagnosed with Alzheimers.

The man still fathered a child in 2000 though. He had it :-)

I read that same story. He really was just a genuine person.