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LEIGH FISCHBEIN Obituary

FISCHBEIN--Leigh

Alexander. Age 24. July 6, 1992 - September 3, 2016. He was a fabulous son, just beginning his life--The whole world before him, he adored his family and they adored him. His thirst for knowledge was boundless. His love of his dog Sam was immeasurable. He was just starting to spread his wings. Had he lived, he would have been a giant. His life was cut short too soon. Leigh is survived by his parents Richard and Mimi, and his brother Ethan. Viewing Wednesday, September 7, 2016 9:30-11:30am. Funeral Service at 11:30am, all at Frank E. Campbell "The Funeral Chapel", 1076 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10028. The Burial will follow at Sharon Gardens Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.

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Published by New York Times on Sep. 5, 2016.

Memories and Condolences
for LEIGH FISCHBEIN

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49 Entries

May 17, 2025

Thinking of you today.

Barry

January 8, 2025

Thinking of you today with news I´d love to share & I'm sure you´d love to hear.. Miss you dearly my friend

February 29, 2020

Youre still in my mind every day. I miss you so much. S

September 13, 2019

I dreamt of you just now. You were so healthy and happy, all I did was hug you. I squeezed you so hard, and you laughed and hugged me back. It was so strange to have this dream, because I really felt you. I didnt just see you but felt you, exactly how I remembered you. I miss you so much. S

July 6, 2019

I open this to write to you on your 27th birthday and doses and mimosas just came on. I miss you so much and wish I could just speak to you about everything that has happened the last 3 years. I love you so much -S

December 20, 2018

I miss and love you so much. S

August 31, 2018

My love, thinking of you today and always. Please know that you are so missed and each and every one of us wish you were still here. In a few days it will be two years since your passing...the hardest day of my life. I continue to see your spirit and notice you watching over me. I miss more than anything to be able to speak with you...to get your support and guidance and love. I still listen to all of the music you passed to me. I remember holding each other while listening to one of your favorites, Lilac Wine by Nina Simone...continuing to hold on to every bit of memories we shared over the course of 12 years of knowing you. I miss you and love you so much. -S

I love you and I miss you so much -S

April 9, 2018

March 25, 2018

Said a prayer for you today, man. You sat down beside me in a dream last night- with a beautiful lady at your side, of course. I feel a sense of pride for you after this service. Spiritual graduation. Much love. Thank you

February 14, 2018

Happy Valentines Day my love, I miss you so much. S

February 1, 2018

I asked a friend to hold onto a voicemail you left me until I was ready to hear it again. I had her send it to me yesterday, I can't tell you how much of a gift it is to hear your voice tell me to have a wonderful day and that you love and miss me....I had a rush of emotions, but I'm so happy I have it to listen to. I miss and love you more than you ever knew and will ever know. Leigh, continue to send me your little blessings and reminders that you are watching over me because I notice them. I love you so so much.

Christina

September 27, 2017

HI, Had a FB memory of our trip to Catalina. So happy I have the memories.

Christina Bird

September 2, 2017

Hi Leigh, It's been a long year. I wish I could do tomorrow over.

July 16, 2017

Game of Thrones is premiering now. This was one of the shows we watched together and one that you were most excited for to see this first episode of this season. I miss our nights ordering in and watching this, then Silicon Valley directly after. These were my favorite nights, staying up late then falling asleep discussing and dissecting the episode, excited for what was to come next. I always think of you, but times like this that are supposed to be shared together are the most difficult. We would be watching this together if you were still here, it's so unfortunate that you're not. I miss you Leigh, more than anyone would know. S

christina bird

July 6, 2017

Dear Leigh, Happy Birthday. It was extraordinary that we remained friends, but you were an extraordinary person. My birthday has lost meaning now that we are not sharing our birthdays together this year. Peace to you my friend. I think of you everyday. I wish we had gotten that coffee you kept suggesting we get. I thought you were just being polite. Miss you. Christina

May 25, 2017

I just have so much I want to tell you. I would honestly give anything just to be able to speak with you again. Even just for a minute. I love and miss you so much, I still think of you everyday. S

April 20, 2017

I promise you not one day goes by where I don't miss you and think of you. I came across a message you had once written to me saying that "you'll always have all of me, always have, always will". I can't fully accept that you're not here because I still feel like you are. I feel your presence and when I think of you most you pop up in my dreams. I know that I somehow still have your love and strength by my side. I just wish, more than anything, that I could just talk to you. I miss that, even when we werent getting along you'd respond to me right away. If get most excited seeing messages pop up from you, "message from Leigh"...I'd give anything to just get a message from you now. I always knew in some way I always had your support and understanding. You were one of the very few people that took me few words to explain myself and things going on, you just got it. You got me, and you knew all the right things to say because you truly knew me. The hardest part about all of this is just not being able to call you and tell you some silly thing I know would make you laugh, have you send me songs you knew I'd love, tell you stories that I knew you'd love to hear. I miss your perfect reactions, they were so pure and I loved it. Excitement from something good happening for me at work or the fact I ate pizza that day. You loved that so much, I was your "pizza lady" and I can still hear you saying it now. The pain I've gone through since your passing has been indescribable, it tore me apart and I've slowly been coming back together. I'll never be the same and I'll always feel somewhat damaged for losing you. I would go through that pain 100000 times worse if it meant I could see you again. I miss you so much Leigh, there's a part of me that feels like you could read this. But I just wish I knew you truly could see this, because I don't think you truly understood just how much I loved you and how important you are to me. I'll always love you and I'll continue to visit the spot I made in Southampton to give you flowers. As you had once said to me "I don't want a day to go by where you didn't have flowers". I love you darling. S

January 25, 2017

I haven't written here in a while because I didn't realize until recently that my messages we public. however this is the only place I feel I can write to you.

A lot has gone on in the world in the past 5 months. You always kept up to date, always reading and watching current news. If not that, watching historical documentaries. You used to use my Netflix account to watch those so I continue to get notifications of suggestions for the new ones. This makes me sad, knowing you'd be excited to watch them if you were still alive today.

I've been able to finally go to our favorite restaurants recently, but there are of course those places I'm just not ready for. The biggest one was being able to go to Espressos, I showed you that place 9 years ago and you and I loved it. You'd surprise me with my favorite sandwich. Music always connected us, I'm still unable to listen to so much of it. You'd always show me new music, you had such good taste in music.

I recently started a new careeer and it's made me think about how I was with you the last time I began a new career. You were easily my biggest cheerleader and took so much pleasure bragging about my silly job. You'd make me feel so excited about myself even when I wasn't.

I truly won't ever get used to reading even here; "Leigh Fischbein's Obituary". It's still so unreal. You were so strong and made me feel so protected. You were such a personality, the life of the party yet an intellectual, spending 80% of your time awake reading articles and watching documentaries. There's so much more to be said about you, us, and what happened, but I'll leave it at that. I will always love you, and I'll continue to miss you every single day. S

December 6, 2016

About 10 years ago I showed you a CD with what turned into our favorite song. We always played it to the point everyone got annoyed with us. When we reconnected about 2 years ago we couldn't leave each others side, and ended up changing flights just so we wouldn't separate. As we sat together on the flight home you played music for us and put this song on. I had completely forgotten about it until you played it again, I loved it so much. I couldn't stop listening to it and afterwards every time it came on we couldn't help but dance like idiots to it. A few weeks ago I wrote in here "young mooglys" forever, since that was the name of the song. Well a few days ago I was at the same restaurant with the person who made that songit was crazy. I told him our story and he was so grateful for me to have told him. I haven't been able to listen to our song again. I hope you're still dancing up there darling, you and I were so awful at it but still had a good time doing it. I love you always, S

November 15, 2016

young mooglys forever !! <3 xxxxx s

Kirsten Benfield

November 10, 2016

Dear Mimi and Richard,
you have been in my thoughts for the past week. With my deepest condolences to you both. I am so so sorry for your loss. With Love-

November 9, 2016

There's so much Ive been doing that you would love. I've been fishing from the beach which we tried doing, you even got me my own fishing rod months ago. we tried our best this summer, even though we didn't catch anything I still had the best time. I know if you had more time you would've caught something. I also started riding again, something you wanted me to start doing again because you knew how much I loved it and how happy it made me. I'm going to start shooting again too, something we did together all summer. I loved doing all of these things with you. You didn't have anyone to show you but you tried so hard to learn all of these things on your own; shooting, fishing, etc. I loved that about you. There's so many things I wish I was sharing with you. There's so many things I wish I could talk to you about, you were always so insightful. I miss you and love you. - S

October 26, 2016

I miss you so much darling. You're in my dreams every single night. I'm thinking about all of our nights at Trinity, missing your laugh...bringing everyone together. That night we won trivia, we always cheated haha but had the best time. I love you so much, I wish you could really see how many people love and miss you. S

October 18, 2016

October 17, 2016

"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long" - Lao Tzu. I love you darling, you truly were such a bright and electrifying human being. I still and always will miss you everyday. Sav

October 11, 2016

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self." Leighs Favourite quote. One that I will forever try my best to live by ! Miss you every day. Barry

October 10, 2016

You are the love of my life, I miss you so much. S

Savanna Hoge

October 8, 2016

October 5, 2016

I'm thinking about a night you wanted to take me out on a date. I loved doing that but you always preferred the quiet nights :). I was so excited but you were feeling so sick and didn't want to show it to ruin the night. You were so quiet and I could tell you were trying so hard to stay to make sure I was happy. This was the night you decided to get me my ring. I asked you what you were thinking about and you answered "I'm thinking about how I want to get you a ring". we got it shortly after and I haven't taken it off. You finally told me you were sick so we went straight home to chill out and listen to your favorite, Howard Stern. You were the most generous human I knew and loved making me happy. My memory is normally terrible but these memories have been so clear. It's bittersweet because I miss you so terribly. I love you so much Leigh. S

September 30, 2016

Leigh,
Tomorrow will mark a month since your passing. I wish you were still here to see and talk about the things that have gone onlike the presidential debate the other day, you would've loved it. I was at the beach last week when a school a fish were jumping out of the ocean because a shark was feeding on them. It was so cool, you would've loved that too. Everyday I see something I know you would love seeing. I wish I could still show you things that I know you would find flat out funnyI miss you telling me how I'm the funniest person you knew because my favorite thing to do was make you laugh. It happened to also be your favorite thing to do with me, sometimes you would do anything to make me smile or laugh and I loved that about you. You were easily the most generous human being I knew and I will always be so thankful for every second I had a chance to be with you. You were such an incredible person, I miss you so much. Love, sav

September 23, 2016

September 22, 2016

Leigh,
My darling. I continue to see you everyday. Before you passed you had taught me about dragonflies, and made me realize just how cool and interesting they are. I loved to see you excited to find out new things. The other day I opened my eyes from a noise at the beach of one hovering right in front of me. Staring at me, I knew it was you. I'm scared to go in the ocean for the fear of sharks now because you loved them so much! You come into my dreams every night, so present, like you still exist. I miss telling you things I knew would make you laugh, I miss going to places I knew would make you grounded and smile, I miss our quiet nights together eating shun lee and watching the office. Please continue to visit me as I won't stop looking for you. I love you with all my heart. <3 your darling, savy, pandavanna, pizza lady, and of course babes.

Amanda Greebaum

September 21, 2016

Rest in peace Leigh

September 19, 2016

Dear Rick & Mimi,
Although we know words offer small comfort in your hour of sorrow, we do wish to express our sincere sympathy to you on the loss of your beloved son. Love, June & Alan

Christine Pringle

September 18, 2016

Rick and Mimi,

My heart breaks for you. I'm so sorry.

Patty Dominski

September 15, 2016

Dearest Mr.and Mrs. Fischbein and Ethan , I am so very sorry to hear of your loss. My prayers are with you now and always.
Love, Patty

September 15, 2016

I am so very sorry for your loss. My prayers are with you.~Jeanne Kelley

Jones

September 10, 2016

I cannot begin to express my sadness for your loss. Sending my condolences to the family. May God give you strength and peace during this difficult time. (Psalm 29:11)

George Daniel

September 9, 2016

I am terribly sorry to hear about your loss. My deepest sympathies. May he rest in peace.

Toni Viertel

September 8, 2016

Rick and Mimi, That you have lost a second son is beyond words. The heartbreak is unfathomable. I am so very sorry.

Michael DiFede

September 7, 2016

Rick and Mimi: Jane told me and I am so sorry to hear about the tragic loss of your son. For you to have experienced this twice in one lifetime is beyond comprehension.

May God's grace and love help you both through this tragedy to find peace.

You are in my prayers and thoughts.

With Deepest Sympathy,

Michael

Berandette & Carlos Bento

September 6, 2016

Rick, Mimi and Ethan, there are no words to console you at this time. We are both so very sorry for this devastating loss. May the love of friends and family carry you through this and bring you the strength to endure. Our heartfelt condolences.

September 5, 2016

I'm so sorry for your loss. My prayers are with you in this time of sorrow.

September 5, 2016

I am sorry for the familiy's loss.May the Almighty God of comfort give you peace through prayer during this difficult time. Please read Phillipians 4:6&7. ER Queens

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