- Dave Rietz, webmaster of www.dorway.com has passed away
(aspartame).
- A moment of silence and prayer for a great man and humanitarian...
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- I find it very difficult to write this note, with eyes
full of tears. I met Dave many years ago when he was on the Internet searching
for the cause of his suffering. He found the FDA report of 92 symptoms
on aspartame and realized this was what was killing him. He was suffering
from such severe joint pain that he had actually built a room on to his
home to house a Jacuzzi because he said it was so painful to walk, it was
easier to stay in water. Off aspartame all joint pain disappeared as did
many of his other problems.
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- But Dave had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and
he knew it was from aspartame. Even Dr. George Schwartz had written a
paper in Western Journal about it. But back then, other than the cancer,
all the main symptoms he suffered from disappeared when he abstained from
aspartame. He said to me: "I'm setting up www.dorway.com - DORway
to Discovery, to give back to the Internet what the Internet gave back
to me - my life." DORway has always housed the Mission Possible records.
Even though I told him, I doubt he ever really realized just how many
thousands of lives were saved by his efforts.
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- Some years ago Robert Cohen had an exhibit here in Atlanta,
a conference on emerging diseases, partially sponsored by the CDC. The
day before the global press met so I decided to join them and give out
information. I was shocked that so many press even from other countries
all said they were already knowledgeable of DORway and checked it often.
The same thing happened when I attended Cable l998, (the movers and shakers)
here in Atlanta, press from everywhere said they always checked out DORway
to keep up with what was going on with aspartame. While representatives
of even CNN and Headline News made comments about checking www.dorway.com
they didn't publish, but they knew the truth about aspartame, and forwarded
the information to their friends.
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- Dave Rietz "lived" to save lives from aspartame.
He was always so happy when hits were going wild because he knew more
and more people were finding out, and getting off the toxin. When I returned
from lecturing in England he said "What happened on the 8th?"
I answered, "Felicity and I blitzed England". Hits were wild.
Likewise, when my mother-in-law died a couple of years ago he asked "What
happened on the 18th, hits are unbelievable?" I explained that Lil
had died and she was such a fine woman, I wanted to do some good in her
name. So I saturated the hospitals and medical buildings with flyers,
knowing it would save a lot of lives. Maybe we can likewise do something
in Dave's name.
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- Dave was one of the kindest men I've ever known. He
worked without stopping for years helping to saturate the globe with education
to save the consumer public from suffering what he had suffered. He
also helped Robert Cohen in the www.notmilk.com movement. He used every
dollar he had in the anti-aspartame movement. He told me only about a
month ago how low he had gotten in funds.
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- He kept thinking he could hang on but every time I tried
to call him lately I only got a recording. I couldn't imagine losing him
but I felt the worst was coming.
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- We know we'll see him again someday, for it says in Acts
24:15 ....."there is going to be a resurrection of the righteous and
the unrighteous". Dave will come back young again, free of disease
and suffering, to a world free of the wicked who brought this plague upon
us,
- and free of the poison that in the end took his life.
We pray to Almighty Jehovah God that he will bless and sustain his family
and keep Dave in his memory and Book of LIfe.
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- I couldn't say it better than Robert Cohen: "The
Internet health monuments that Dave crafted will live on forever."
He did exactly what he said, he gave back to the Internet, but a million
times over. Even his last email to me was to help a man with lupus. And
if you're a victim reading this whose life was saved by www.dorway.com
be sure to drop a note of sympathy to his dear and loving wife, Isabel
Rietz and tell her so. (122 Foxborough Road, Goose Creek, SC 29445. Right
now there may be many people around her but then there will be a void for
he was her everything for 43 long years.
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- Goodbye my friend. You do not die when you live in the
hearts of those you leave behind.
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- Betty Martini
- Founder, Mission Possible International
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