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Jan Obel - The circumstances of Jan’s death

Started by Grace Hemmings on Tuesday, September 14, 2021
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I was a very close friend of Jan’s. We met in April 1970 at Brandeis University. He was finishing his doctorate and I was about to graduate from Brandeis. I last heard from him in 2005 while I was being evacuated from the Ivory Coast to Senegal. Ivory Coast was undergoing a civil war and the UN offices were being transferred to Senegal and other offices.
I was shocked to discover that he had passed away 10 years later!
I would be grateful for any information about his last years and cause of death. He meant a LOT to me.

Grace Hemmings
Dear Grace. So good to hear from you. Jan died november 2015 from a heart attack, he had a thrombosis 2 or 3 years before but was saved in time. He had a hard life the last ears of his life, he did not take much care to his health. He tryed in different way to go on with his scientific researh, but not in a realistik way. He loved to debate with everybody, and in the last years he spend a lot of time with some young persons. They respectet him and loved to discuss with him. I met them at the funeral, i think he was like a guro to them. He also met people who did not like hes way of eager debate. Some of them made his life hard. I was not a very big help to him, i could not debate for many hours in the night, so i did not see him very often. I am sorry about that, he was not easy to live close to. I am sorry i did not inform you after hes death, and i am sorry my english is so bad.
I think he had a fine life in the end, in his own way, but not a easy live.
love from Lars.
My email: lars.obel@webspeed.dk. telefone: 0046 21764680

Lars, I hope you received my reply to your kind response. I wrote to you by email. I was very comforted by your response.
Thank you!

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