Ask HN: Can we help Terry Davis?

3 points by alehander42 ↗ HN
There were rumours about Terry Davis's death these days. I really hope he's fine and the rumors are false. If he is alive, is there any way that I or we can personally help him?

(Or help any other fellow programmer with health problems).

Now, I know very well that he has a family and that it isn't our responsibility to care for him. Also I am sure a psychiatrist can assess him and describe what would be the best way to act way better than me. All I am asking is if there are any way that volunteers like us: random strangers on the internet can actually do and be useful for him (or other programmers with similar problems). At the very least iirc he was unemployed: is there a way to help him work on the software he loves or at least do something that can support his basic needs?

I'd love to believe that even if an individual has a supposedly insurmountable problem, a community can somehow find a way to help him even a little bit. I like to think that programmers are one of the best communities one can hope for: a group full of bright people, solving hard problems every day. It would be sad if we can't think of anything, because his story is happening in front of our eyes for years: and in the end, when we assumed he is dead, probably at least some of us looked back and thought: "wait, was there a way to help him at all? and if thousands of programmers can't think of a way to attack such a problem, what hope is there for any of us one day if we get in a similar situation?"

tl;dr Is there anything that the programmer/software/IT/your-fav-description community can actually do for Terry Davis and programmers with similar problems?

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His (Bitcoin) donation address is right here,

3Lx8Qnu8EbMJ21VE3jetUYpjPM9hvX7HhD .

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