[meteorite-list] Help With Gary Foote's Recovery!

[leandro.saracino at oacl.net]

dear IMCA fellows, just read the sad news about gary and his wife's wish 
to sell his meteorites (and everything else).
I simply refuse the idea that a fellow meteorite collector has to give 
away his/her little or great treasure to pay bills for healthcare.
I'm trying to figure out what that could mean to me, laying in a 
hospital bed and thinking that what is most valuable to me is going for 
sale among "friends", and I'm scared of this thought.
Is this the only way we can help suffering people, buying their things 
at auctions?
I know that this has been done in the past, and I like to think that it 
has been done in the pure spirit of helping. No offense to anyone: I'm 
only asking to our community to consider leaving gary's stones and irons 
at gary's home, and send him instead a decent amount of money to help 
him  (maybe the same amount one should have wished to spend for an auction?)
I'm sure that keeping his things around him will make his recovery much 
faster and complete.

only a suggestion, not a moral lesson :-)

best to you all

leandro

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