{"id":5015,"date":"2008-02-07T17:01:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T22:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5015"},"modified":"2008-02-07T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T20:21:38","slug":"everlasting_be_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/everlasting_be_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Everlasting be your memory, Bevin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bevin.jpg\" Bevin Varughese<\/a> passed away today, in New York.<\/p>\n\n

We posted about his fight with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia back in October, a few weeks after his cancer returned. A bone marrow transplant was his only hope for survival. I wish I had had the time to post more about the drives his determined friends put together, all over the East coast, in order to save their friend.<\/p>\n\n

Bevin never found a match.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

After two rounds of chemotherapy, he caught an infection; now he is gone. Many of you lurkers either grew up with him in New York, attended church with him, or knew him from his days as a student at Temple University, in Philadelphia. I’ve heard from a few of you, about this heart-breaking loss:<\/p>\n\n

He fought so hard and was always so positive, with a smile on his face\ndespite enduring the worst of health conditions. He never once complained.<\/blockquote>\n\n
I still remember him from college. I had the biggest honking crush on him but I was too scared to talk to desi guys. He was really nice, though…<\/blockquote>\n\n

I’ve also heard the now-cliched phrases about “the good dying young” but more than that, I’m struck by how gracious and optimistic Bevin was, until the end. I don’t know why we lose certain people, when or how we do, but I do know that we can’t keep letting this happen. I implore you, if you are not already part of the National Marrow Donor Program<\/a>, to consider becoming a committed donor. It’s too late to save Bevin, but you might save someone else, who is just as loved and cherished.<\/p>\n\n

My thoughts and prayers to his family, friends and the strangers who didn’t even know him personally, but did amazing things like run marathons in his name. May Bevin’s memory be eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bevin Varughese passed away today, in New York. We posted about his fight with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia back in October, a few weeks after his cancer returned. A bone marrow transplant was his only hope for survival. I wish I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}