Re: Dr. Ben Cullen (fwd)

Francis Heylighen (fheyligh@VNET3.VUB.AC.BE)
Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:23:50 +0100


>> Very shocking, very sad. A wonderful guy.
>>
>> Andres: any more information?
>>
>
>Apparently it was some kind of heart complication, perhaps a heart
>attack, between Christmas and New Years. That's all I know.

A close friend of Ben told me the following:

>You will by now have heard of Ben Cullen's sudden death.
>It is tragic that one so young can be taken from us so suddenly.
>
>They say bronchial asthma, but he did
>not suffer from that. Equally, he was very
>fit and did not smoke or drink.
....
>No, he was not hospitalised. He just died suddenly
>in bed. They really don't know what it was, except
>that they think Arrhythmea.

In the meantime, I have agreed that I will edit and publish Ben's
unfinished notes for the "Evolution of Complexity" symposium, as a kind of
tribute to him.

Chris Chippindale <cc43@cam.ac.uk> at the Cambridge University Museum of
Archaeology & Anthropology will take care of his other papers:

>With colleagues, we are looking after Ben's work, both in
>seeing through to publication work completed or in press and in seeing if
>anything else of practical value can be done. I am in particular myself
>paying attention to things in press.

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