On October 15, 2018, a 28-year-old Australian-born Seattle resident named Jack Chapman, also known as Pup Tank, died. According to an October 16 Facebook post written by Chuck Osborn, Tank died “due to a previously undiagnosed lung ailment.”
Osborn wrote: “He seemed fine, doing the things he loved—working out, caring for clients as part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, and spending time with his family—until a week ago when he had trouble breathing and was admitted to the hospital with what we figured was a routine infection. It turned out to be much more. He fought very hard, seeming to get a tiny bit better day by day, until the terrible moment that we were told nothing more could be done.”
Osborn, also known as Pup Alpha, wrote that Tank “entrusted me to be the executor of his estate, a duty that I thought I would never have to fulfill.”