RIP Grant Imahara - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 05:10:58 am
content: Wow, he was only 49. So sad.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 05:54:14 am
content: Big loss for the nerd community.Brain aneurysm is scary.

author: EEVblog
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timestamp: July 14, 2020, 06:04:55 am
content: Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on July 14, 2020, 05:54:14 amIndeed.I presume no warning, just

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 06:25:59 am
content: RIPLife is too short sometimes

author: aargee
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 07:07:14 am
content: DamnA brain aneurysm is like that scene out of the Matrix when someone just pulls your plug without warning.

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 08:30:48 am
content: Of that show, I like Grant the most. I was hoping I will see more shows from him in the future.RIP, Grant, we'll miss you.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Quote from: EEVblog on July 14, 2020, 06:04:55 amRegarding warning or signs -- I think it is perhaps case dependent, and likely the most significant factor is where exactly the aneurysm was.Some years ago,I had a co-worker who died of the same thingwith a late and non-specific warning. On the day he died, he was taking the day off to see the doctor the second or the third time - to haveanother scanto narrow down what was wrong. He did not live long enough to get to the doctor that day. His aneurysm "burst" and from the condition his wife found him in, his death would have been rather quick - just slump over, in front of his laptop.Recalling when hefirst talk of not feeling well, that must have beena little over a week before his death. I spoke to him 8:30am on the day he died. I certainly did not discern anything wrong. He sounded so normal I thought he was just lazying out that day and I was rather annoyed that he asked me to call the customer on his behalf -- he knew I was off-site dealing with the technical end, and calling the customer was his job. I often feel bad I was so annoyed at him (and I let my annoyance shown). That was my last conversation with him, and that was on his last day, and I was annoyed at him... Years later, I happen to drove by that town. I recall where the grave was, I found it and I spend a moment with him.With his sudden death, we (on the project team) did wonder had the doctors been able to narrow down to aneurysm sooner, would he still be around.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 08:38:38 am
content: Quote from: Rick Law on July 14, 2020, 08:30:48 amThe world has much more lazy dirt bags than it has folks with dodgy brain plumbing. You couldn't have known that. Don't beat yourself up.

author: 2N3055
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 09:10:06 am
content: RIP.

author: Brumby
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timestamp: July 14, 2020, 11:21:46 am
content: He was always entertaining to watch - a true asset on Mythbusters (the only program of his I watched).This news is quite the shock - but, as I understand it, an aneurysm is a time bomb. When it ruptures, it's all over.Too soon... too soon....

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 12:12:35 pm
content: Very sad news, he will be greatly missed.Brain aneurysms are such an unfair way to die - so sudden, so unpredictable. My cousin's wife died of one at a similar age. Took a nap one afternoon and never woke up...

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 12:41:41 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on July 14, 2020, 06:25:59 amAll the more reason we should not waste ours. We have 24 hours allotted to each of us every day. How we use them is up to us. Any time not used wisely in each 24 hours is forfeited forever. People like Grant live life well. We should do likewise. Quite relevant would be the remarkable Twilight Zone episode called The Changing of the Guard, which was released on 1st June 1962. It demonstrates the positive impact we can make to others lives without us even realising it.

author: dr.diesel
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timestamp: July 14, 2020, 12:49:46 pm
content: He was also in the fan series Star Trek Continues, which was fantastic.

author: langwadt
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timestamp: July 14, 2020, 01:43:33 pm
content: 2020 is just ....

author: rsjsouza
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timestamp: July 14, 2020, 02:13:58 pm
content: I just saw it on the news. Truly saddened by this. RIP.

author: Tom45
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 03:33:50 pm
content: Quote from: Rick Law on July 14, 2020, 08:30:48 amMy brother had an apparent stroke but the local hospital didn't find anything wrong and released him in a few days. Then a few months later he had another stroke. This time the local hospital put him on a helicopter to the medical school an hour away. The diagnosis was a hemorrhagic stroke. The less common kind where the brain springs leaks, as opposed the common strokes from blockages.He recovered from that and was released. During that they did scans that showed signs of quite a few places that had sprung a leak in the past. Also, an aneurysm that was ready to burst at any time. He later had surgery to repair that.The odds on hemorrhagic strokes are bad. In round numbers 50% die before reaching a hospital, 25% die in the hospital, and most of the remaining 25% don't survive a year. My brother has amazingly beat those odds and is alive and still working at age 72. He sometimes hesitates trying to come up with words while speaking. But at 74 I have that problem too with no history of a stroke.So yes, there are good tools to identify and correct brain aneurysms. The problem is that brain aneurysms are rather rare so doctors don't think of scanning for aneurysms in normal circumstances.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 03:41:20 pm
content: I was at an electronics company event in the US some years ago, where Grant Imahara was the after dinner speaker. I barely knew who he was, but the Americans treated him as quite the celebrity.

author: RandallMcRee
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 03:44:05 pm
content: He was one of the good guys. I really enjoyed watching him, and I think many of us can resonate with this:Quote

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 04:23:51 pm
content: wow, so sad.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 10:32:13 pm
content: Quote from: HwAoRrDk on July 14, 2020, 12:12:35 pmHeart attacks as well. There's a documentary of an airline pilot dying from that shortly after takeoff, what saved everyone else on the plane was that one of the passengers had some flight knowledge and was able to talk to ATC in order to make an emergency landing. Yes, exactly the scenario covered in a Mythbusters episode...

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 10:40:00 pm
content: I used to work with a guy who had a brain aneurysm around the same age, he survived, largely due to luck of being awake when it happened and getting prompt medical care. A lot of people just drop dead without warning when it happens. With all the things that can kill us it's pretty remarkable that as many live as long as they do.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 10:41:45 pm
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 14, 2020, 10:32:13 pmMust have been a *very* small airliner to have only one pilot. The only commercial aircraft like that I'm aware of are things like single engine seaplanes. Certainly any sort of jet airliner will have a cockpit crew of at least two.

author: SilverSolder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 11:18:50 pm
content: It can strike at a very young age - I know one family that lost a youngster of only 18 to it.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 11:27:07 pm
content: Quote from: james_s on July 14, 2020, 10:41:45 pmIt was a private jet and the documentary was redone with 3D rendering.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2020, 11:43:43 pm
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 14, 2020, 11:27:07 pmA King Air is a twin turboprop, it's big compared to typical light aircraft but I think it would be a stretch to call it an airliner. It's not the sort of thing you'd take a scheduled passenger flight between major airports on.

author: SilverSolder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2020, 12:33:52 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 14, 2020, 11:27:07 pmJeez, talk about keeping calm under pressure...

author: basinstreetdesign
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2020, 12:34:48 am
content: Damnhe was one of my favourites of the crew. Very sad to hear about this.Go hug your SO and kids.

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2020, 12:55:45 pm
content: He was the best 'Technical' person on the Show. MythBusters was never the same afterthey laid off those 3. Now even the original 2 are gone. Not the same. Just hope it was quick!

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 15, 2020, 01:40:26 pm
content: I don't like the post TMZ, but they have a story saying he was taken off life support after 2 surgeries over a few days:https://www.tmz.com/2020/07/15/mythbusters-grant-imahara-headaches-before-brain-aneurysm-death/

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2020, 06:08:48 am
content: It saddens people when those they look up to pass away, even though we did not know them personally. My favourite Sci-Fi actress is still around, at 95 years old and still going strong... June Lockhart. And with pop music, I think we know we are getting old when Deborah Harry just turned 75 years old.Life is a bit like a long train journey with many stops along the way. You don't know when you are going to exit, but along the way passengers come and go; and a few familiar faces stay with your entire journey. In my life, I met my great grandaunt who was born around 1870 and I will know people who will probably live until 2120. That's a span of 250 years!

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2020, 06:39:45 am
content: It doesn't really sadden me, I didn't know the guy. It's a mildly scary reminder of our own mortality though and he did seem like a neat guy.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 22, 2020, 07:34:56 am
content: Quote from: VK3DRB on July 21, 2020, 06:08:48 amWhen you put numbers to it like that, it really sinks in.If I'm lucky I've got another good 30 years in me before I start to lose the plot.