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| {{Infobox person
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| | name = Erik Cassel
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| | other_names = erik.cassel (on [[Roblox]])
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| | birth_date = December 16, 1967
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| | death_date = February 11, 2013
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| | death_place = [[San Francisco, California]]
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| | death_cause = [[Cancer]]
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| | known_for = Co-founding [[Roblox]] with [[David Baszucki]].
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| '''Erik Cassel''' (December 16, 1967 – February 11, 2013), known on the platform as '''erik.cassel''', was a co-founder, [[administrator]] and former VP of Engineering on [[Roblox]]. He was fairly active on the website but rarely played any [[Game|games]].
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| == Death ==
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| On February 11, 2013, the Roblox [[Administrators|staff]] stated on the Roblox [[Twitter]] account that Erik Cassel had "lost his fight with cancer" earlier in the day at age of 45. An roblox staff member named Keith confirmed it in the late hours in a forum post. A blog post was then created later in the day.
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| === Memorial ===
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| On February 12, 2013, hundreds of users gathered in the Erik Cassel Memorial to mourn the death of Erik Cassel. Many of these people dressed up as Erik Cassel's character to pay tribute to him. On February 15, 2013, Roblox created a [[shirt]] named "Offical Erik Shirt" in memory of Erik.cassel. The shirt went off sale 8 days later. Also in memory of Erik Cassel, Roblox changed the name of a hat formerly known as "Well Worn Hat" to "Erik Cassel’s Hat" in memory of Erik, and put it on-sale for a short time. Roblox then changed the two items' descriptions to the following:
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| : "To honor our co-founder Erik Cassel, Roblox will make a substantial contribution to cancer research in Erik's name. Thank you to everyone for your respect and support."
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| == External links ==
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| * [https://mobile.twitter.com/casselerik?lang=en Erik Cassel] on [[Twitter]].
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| [[Category:1967 births]]
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| * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erik_Cassel&oldid=1013322966
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