signalboost | Mobile memorial

I'm doing the Race for Life 5k on the 23rd and I'm currently raising money -- my team's page is here, or people in the UK can sponsor me by texting "AMNI89 £[amount]" to 70070.

But I also have a small personal project going on, which is really what I'm here for. I have a pink t-shirt which I am going to turn into a mobile memorial for people who've died of cancer: not just those I've lost, but anyone. If you comment here, or PM me, or email me at thebrightspark[at]gmail[dot]com, with however many names you like, they will be written on my t-shirt in fabric pen. However you'd like the name to feature will be what I write down -- just a first name, a pair of names kept together, a full name, a username... I can't promise anything about size/placement/colour, but I will feature every name I get, somehow.*

Examples of people on my list so far: my grandparents, my girlfriend's grandmother, a teacher of my mother's, Jack Swigert, Dashiell Hammett, a boy who lived in the same hall of residence as me at university, Kim Manners, Henrietta Lacks...

I'd love for my shirt to be so full of names you can barely see the original colour. Please share this around! On twitter, I'm using the hashtag #projecttshirt to talk about/promote it.

*If I run out of space for names on the t-shirt, I will add them to my backsign and my teammate's backsign and everywhere else I can think of.

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*hugs you* My mother's name was Phyllis. She died of ovarian cancer at age 64.

I've PMed you M's full name.

Ray and Doris Owens

this is incredibly sweet of you by the way, thank you

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This is such a wonderful idea. I'd be honored for you to include my grandparents, Helen and Eugene.

Oh, wow, this is wonderful. Please add Gerrie, my grandmother.

Since his passing was just this past weekend, I suspect Iain Banks's name is already on your shirt, but I wanted to make sure.

On a more personal note, I'd appreciate it if you'd add Alex (

dancingshaman) Baker, Laura (

smileystickman) Laser, Anna (

peaberry) Pope, and Gale Salwocki. (You don't need to include the journal names, but I thought you might want to read their stories.)

And thank you.

This is an intriguing idea for a memorial.

You could add my mother, Hilda, who was about the same age I am now.

Here via Copperbadge's Radio Free Monday.

My grandmother's name was Jeanne (1995)
My mother's name was Isobel (2002)
My father's name was Seymour (2010)

Thank you for this

Here via Copperbadge, and I think this is a fantastic idea.

Please add Carol E. Stephens, one of my college professors and mentors; and Barbara C., my grandmother.

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My uncle's name was Ian, he died last year of lung cancer leaving a wife and five kids.

This is an amazing thing you're doing!

Jack (my grandfather), Bill (my uncle), Chuck (my college mentor). Thank you for doing this.

Also here via Copperbadge's Radio Free Monday.

Sadaf Azizi died last month of a brain tumor. She was 25 years old.
My grandmother's name was Bodil.
My grandfather's name was Roar. (Yes, really. It's an old Danish name.)
My favorite teacher's name was Kirsten.

This is a really wonderful thing you're doing. Thank you.

Technically my dad didn't die of cancer, but he had three cancers when when he died (he died of pneumonia). His name was Martin.

Otherwise - Spencer, and Jeanne. And Robin.

(My mother-in-law has survived three cancers! Paula)

Robin - my uncle (2007)
Bridget - a little girl from my primary school (1994)
Rosalind Franklin - a scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1958)
Audrey Hepburn (1993)

This is a really neat idea. My grandfather died of skin cancer; his name was Harold Dixon.

George Harrison
Linda McCartney
Peter Jennings
My grandparents, Bill and Melverna
My professor, Austin
My friend's mother, Hinda

Thank you for doing this; it's a lovely idea. (Here via

copperbadge.)