'Til We Die

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本文。
　
I met him once at an interview session in a press room of Summer Sonic whose year I can't remember.
　
He was a laidback, incredibly down-to-earth guy for a member of a band which was and is one of the biggest in the world.
　
To be honest back then it was such a pressure for me to meet or talk on the phone with musicians, somehow it was difficult for me to make a natural conversation with them, partly because my background is far from that of many of them.
　
But he was different.
I didn't have to get too nervous to be at the table with him and a journalist for whom I was working. He was wearing sunglasses and sitting at the table just naturally, making comments in a gentle manner, there was no sign of tense even though it was almost just before going up on the stage.
　
It was after the band's fourth album was released that I got to know that he was one of two main song writers in the band.
His laidback attitude totally didn't show that he was one of the key persons of the band, probably he was too "nice" to show off his true presence in the band.
　
I don't know if I'm qualified to talk about him, but well, now I feel anything goes when one hears somebody has died, you have to just vent how you feel, there is no rule, except for comments such as "he deserves to die" (which I actually saw this morning) or something like that to insult the dead person and his/her family whatever way s/he dies.
　
When I saw his band two years ago, I couldn't help but say something had changed around them, but I'm still proud of having seen them since the 1st album.
Being almost the same age with many of the band members, I still believe that their or his music will keep touching my heart when I hear it, or at least there certainly was a time, even a "long" time in which I just kept listening to it to hold on to the slightest hope to keep small fragments of myself.
　
Recently there have been too many sad stories around the metal scene, but I'm proud of being a "habitant" of this genre, and I will keep listening to his music like... it were one of my best memories in my life.
　
And I want to say to everybody; DO NOT DIE.
Never.
We want no more sad stories of death, a forcing way to say goodbye to somebody we care.
DO NOT DIE.
SURVIVE whatever may come.
DO NOT DIE.