Cristopher Whitfield...Alive?

A few weeks ago, I covered a WHJ announcement stating that Cristopher Whitfield of WHJ was apparently deceased. Since then, a new announcement was posted (in Deutsch) that upgrades his status from deceased to critically ill.

Quite a health care system they have over in Germany. Did Michael Moore note this in Sicko? Apparently I wasn't paying attention.

I was provided with an English version of the announcement, which you can find here, with the relevant portion directly below:

CLARIFICATION OF CRIS
Cris is very ill and not DEAD. It was certainly not a good idea to let him die in the real World or in SL, but in the given situation it was the only idea we had to save the islands.
In retrospect, it turned out by the fact that it was no use.

The WHJ website is now defunct, so there's no original announcement to back this translation or allow readers to authenticate it.

Fortunately, Steffen Bolton, who claims to be the real life brother of Cristopher Whitfield, has created a blog . At the time of publishing this article, the sole post was amusingly titled "Back to life, back to work." I suspect the irony is lost on WHJ investors.

As expected, threats of a legal action have emerged. And as always, I'm sitting on the edge of my seat hoping that the outcome might result in some manner of legal precedent.

Late last month I wrote a request that Steffen Bolton allow me to interview him. That request, left on the now-defunct WHJ website, went unanswered.

A writer for the Avastar(who I know nothing about) would later contact me to inform me of their own investigation into this matter, which you can find here. I don't know a great deal about the Avastar or their methods, but I cannot deny that their findings are intriguing, to say the least.