Thank you all so much. This has all been a huge comfort

My dad was never one for computers or the internet, although the concept of it intrigued him somewhat.

he'd have been speechless at the notion of so many people from every continent on the planet who he'd never met expressing sympathies on his passing on facebook and various other forums, including this one.

I consider ourselves lucky in some respects that as a family we didnt have to face what he would have had to go through over the coming months. Faced with a cancer diagnosis and dying of the exact same illness that killed his own father, he ended up going the way he always wanted instead - suddenly and painlessly.

He always did like to have the final say. Sounds familiar, eh?