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Update on andypop
Andy died this morning; he was pronounced legally dead at 10:15 am.

Although yesterday's story was relatively optimistic (if very heavily qualified), unfortunately his condition deteriorated during the night and the family were called to the ITU (Intensive Care Unit) at about 5:30 am, after which it was just a matter of time.

Andy would have wanted to help other people live after his death, and the family have been very sensitively taken through the relevant decisions for organ donation; everyone present was absolutely firm on that being the right thing to do.

The funeral is not likely to be until perhaps ten days time from now, because of the necessary bureaucracy of coroners report and so forth. There are still decisions to be made about the size of the funeral, as you can imagine; I'm sure lots of people will want to be there or to send a message, and I'll carry on announcing things about that in this journal, including if there are space difficulties or anything.

There will also be a celebration of Andy's life, some time after the funeral. This will be an occasion where we'll be able to have more people and to spend more time remembering Andy: through music, art, comics, spoken and written tributes, poems.

So many thanks and so much love goes out to the people who have been reading and commenting, visiting the hospital, ringing, thinking about the family and the people at the hospital, and most of all thinking about Andy. I have printed out Sophie's post and comments to take to the hospital, and Helen & Geoff really appreciated them all.