Being new here, I did not know the guy. But at least he had the chance to say goodbye before he left.

A lot of times people just vanish from these kind of sites after years and many posts, and you wonder what happened to them. I had that happen recently on another forum. A guy I regularly chatted with in PMs and emails just stopped posting and no longer responds to PMs or emails. For all I know he is lying dead in the woods somewhere, or is in jail. Just don't know.