Hospitals & Asylums
New Year’s Eve
Candlelight Vigil at Ashland Plaza for “Gone” who died there on Christmas Eve
HA-24-12-11
By Anthony J. Sanders, Majik WiZz, Stashe,
Aether and Cygnus
Credit: Stash, Aether and Cygnus HA-26-12-11
Shane Jolly, a
homeless man known as “Gone” by his friends, died at the Ashland Plaza at 8:30
pm on Christmas Eve. At the Peace Church breakfast we decided to host a
candlelight vigil at the Plaza on New Year's Eve. The police man at the
David Grubbs memorial on the bike path, removing the journal I had not yet
inscribed a Psalm of David in, said "the medical examiner determined the
cause of death to be choking on meat or his own vomit". Autopsies are only performed in 5% of deaths
in the United States (Sanders ’11). Gone had been heard a month before saying
that he was "going to die" and he may have had a pre-existing medical
condition for which we demand an autopsy. The City of Ashland must pay
for the autopsy and funeral arrangements as compensation for the false arrest
and spate of $1,000 tickets the days right before Gone
died. I want to know why the homeless are reputed to have shorter
life expectancies than other people although the home is so much more homicidal
than camping in my own experience. We ask that the Ashland Daily Tidings
make public the findings on Shane Jolly’s death certificate, request that an
autopsy be performed and communicate with the family and funeral directors
regarding the body and effects of the deceased under 24USC(10)§420
as cited in Art. 14 of CHANGE.
Aether reports that the night sergeant at the Ashland
police department called him back to inform the public that the case is now
being handled by the medical examiner who is under the
Jackson County Sheriff who is in contact with next-of-kin. Aether is going to
talk to the Sheriff and release this document to the next of kin. A will or other instrument of a
testamentary nature involving property rights shall be promptly delivered, upon
the death, to the proper court of record.
It is recommended the decedent's property, in equal pro-rata shares to
the highest following categories of identified survivors (listed in the order
of precedence indicated) under 24USC(10)§420:
1. The surviving spouse or legal
representative.
2. The children of the deceased.
3. The parents of the deceased.
4. The siblings of the deceased.
5. The next-of-kin of the deceased.
At
the Peace Church breakfast I felt like Gone had died young, at 41, so that we
might live. There were two people who were with Gone on the Plaza when he
started choking at 8:12 pm amongst friends by the menorah displayed on the
Ashland Plaza. Gone was known around Ashland for flying his “Need Weed”
sign. The day of his death he had been drinking beer around the Plaza with a
new and special "Hookers and Drugs" sign that he joyously Jested with the townsfolk with. After flying for a while he
came stumbling up pointing at his throat before he collapsed at Majik’s the feet of one of the attendees of the
breakfast. The other attendee, named Stash, a firefighter who had lost
three quarters of his brigade, about 11 people, to a wildfire, several years
ago, before going homeless, performed the Heimlich maneuver. The police
arrived quickly and Gone was put in a stretcher and was taken away in an
ambulance. Stashe
says, “Gone died after I had restored breathing because the ambulance put him
on the stretcher on his back and he continued choking which probably caused his
passing”. A caregiving textbook does say
that people should lay on their side (Bridges
’98). Majik and Aether
went to the Ashland Community hospital around 12:30 am where they were informed
that he was dead. Majik WiZz says, “earlier the day Don
died at my feet he told me that he had just been given two $1,000 tickets over
the past few days”.
Gone
is said to be from New Hampshire and was born in Wales, United Kingdom.
He did not have an accent, was a big American football fan, but was such a
friendly drunk he must have come to America from the Old World. He had
hiked the Pacific Crest trail twice. When I met him on the Plaza with
Occupy he had a small attractively curved didgeridoo, he called his shofar,
strapped to his back, he had been drinking and although it couldn't have been
much over freezing he was barefoot and shirtless all night. When in
Ashland Gone usually slept alone on the railroad tracks without a tent. The second time I got to spend time with Gone
he was still wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He had just gotten back from
clashing with the police at Occupy Portland and had gotten arrested on the
plaza in Ashland for drinking and driving although he was hundreds of yards
from his car. When in the overnight drunk tank, they dropped the charges,
but lost his shofar. Although the drunk tank had
printed Gone a very nice ID bracelet they claim to have accidentally given his
shofar to someone with the same name from a different state. After he was
released someone had given him several hits of acid and weed and some friends
and I went with him to the liquor store and we drank together at Evo's gazebo after dark. For me, it was one of about
ten drinks in 2011. The third time I
talked with Gone was at the Market of Choice where I was resisting the
temptation, while my sister bought some pineapple muffins for Grampa. A woman had taken Gone to Goodwill and bought
him a down vest but he was still in shorts. The fourth or fifth time I
talked with Gone he was walking past the Food Co-op, it was snowing and he was
carrying a big backpack, he was finally wearing pants and looked pretty warm
with a few pairs of socks in his flip flops. Now his soul has gone to
play the shofar in the House of the Lord where he is believed by Christians to
be Angel.
Credit: David
Michael Grubbs HA-26-11-11
Psalm
23
A psalm of David
The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside quiet waters,
he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me of the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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the Effects of Deceased 24USC(10)§420
Sanders,
Tony J. Ashland Community Shelter and Camping Declaration. Hospitals &
Asylums HA-24-12-11
submitted to convert the vacant Ashland Daily Tidings into a winter homeless
shelter around 10:30 pm on Christmas Eve two hours after Shane Jolly, “Gone”, a
prospective client of our homeless shelter, died at 8:30 pm at Ashland Plaza on
Christmas Eve and there will be a New Year’s Eve Candlelight Vigil.
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Wheeler, Sam. Homeless Man Died on Christmas Eve: Shane Jolley Choked on a Piece of Steak by the Black Swan. Ashland Daily Tidings. December 30, 2011