# Dopers Who Die: A Plan To Let Us Know **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 24, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198 "2003-05-24T07:26:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/1 "2003-05-24T07:26:27Z")
It has occasionally been mentioned that if a Doper should die, no one would ever know. Granted, there is not much we could do about it, but it would be important to know - especially if if was someone we have read and respected over the years. If nothing else, but to share memories and honor them. Perhaps the SDMB could add a field…sort of “who to call in an emergency”. Give an email address of someone you know so, if after - I donno, maybe 3 months, if you haven’t posted, someone could ask a moderater to check in to see if you won the lottery and are travelling the world, or if something worse has happened. Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/2 "2003-05-24T12:21:04Z")
Hey, Dopers never die! Their threads just unravel. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/3 "2003-05-24T12:26:30Z")
I don’t want anyone to know. I plan on dying in a van down by the river. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/4 "2003-05-24T12:42:49Z")
About 6 years ago I asked my mom to notify my friends on-line if anything happened to me. So she _might_ start a thread here if I kick the bucket. While I’m sure she’d hit my e-mail friends she may forget to open IE which would bring her here to post the grim news. Well that was my plan anyway. It just seemed a common curtesy. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/5 "2003-05-24T15:55:42Z")
I always think about preparing a huge list with all my ISP logins and the email addresses of people I want told, along with stuff like the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/6 "2003-05-24T16:07:11Z")
I keep a file on the desktop that has the laptop password and those online places/friends that should be notified should anything happen. I also informed the 2 siblings most likely to access the computer should anything happen to me. It’s just something I was thinking about and figured I should go ahead and do. It’s sort of my will - I don’t have any real assets, but there are people that I’d want to know if something happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/7 "2003-05-24T16:51:50Z")
Just so everybody knows, I’m still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/8 "2003-05-24T17:11:39Z")
I think I may go ahead and do it then. I just worry someone might get curious and snoop all my passwords. No, I don’t know who. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/9 "2003-05-24T17:14:12Z")
FWIW, sometimes we do find out. Another doper who knows the person tells us, or the doper posts a suicide note, or a news story mentions it, etc. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/10 "2003-05-24T17:24:50Z")
I don’t plan on dying. So far, so good…😃 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/11 "2003-05-24T17:41:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Man With The Golden Gun \* > \*\*FWIW, sometimes we do find out. Another doper who knows the person tells us, or the doper posts a suicide note, or a news story mentions it, etc. \*\* Cites? ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/12 "2003-05-24T17:47:53Z")
As a fun exercise in morbidity, I like to imagine this sort of scenario every once in a while. I suppose I could go tell a person in my family or leave a file for them or something that if I ever die, go register and post on the boards. (The [buddy approach](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=149471) was also mentioned a few months back.) On the other hand, I do tend to blend into the scenery here quite well. Anyone like my green leaves? **TMWTGG** : Doper suicide notes? I don’t recall seeing anyone post a suicide note here and then killing themselves, and I’m sure that wouldn’t be encouraged… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/13 "2003-05-24T17:53:22Z")
**dantheman,** do a search on “poopah chalupa.” He was a well-regarded poster that met an untimely and horrible end. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/14 "2003-05-24T17:55:58Z")
He didn’t commit suicide, nor did he leave a note. I guess **The Man With The Golden Gun** was being facetious. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/15 "2003-05-24T18:40:58Z")
There _was_ a Doper who posted links to photos of him/herself with their wrists slashed. I don’t remember the details, other than it was a pretty ugly business that happened shortly after I joined the boards. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/16 "2003-05-24T20:02:47Z")
If I die, I plan to continue posting once I have risen from the grave as a hideous flesh-eating ghoul, prowling the earth eating the living and surfing the Internet in my spare time. ---
**Author:** ![gyt\_fx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@gyt\_fx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gyt_fx)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/17 "2003-05-24T20:19:47Z")
How would a doper die? We are the most informed people in the world. I mean, we know how to kill roaches if ever they besiege our house by the millions and try to take over. We know that there are killer rabbits that attacked Jimmy Carter and we should watch out for these aquatic vermin. The only way we could die is if some ignorrant idiot became jealous and murdered us. Im just bein a bit sarcastic, but hey ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/18 "2003-05-24T20:33:22Z")
With 35K registered members, I’d bet money that more than the three Dopers I know about have expired. **WallyM7** , **poopah chalupah** and **Dr. Watson** all died in accidents, and all had extraboard communication with other posters. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/19 "2003-05-24T20:43:47Z")
I’m assuming that if I died, everyone would find out about it when they hold the state funeral, and issue a stamp with my picture on it – part of the “Very Average Persons” series. Uncle Cecil himself will give the eulogy, of course. Just try to keep him from throwing himself on the funeral pyre. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198/20 "2003-05-24T20:49:47Z")
Ooh, a funeral pyre! I want one too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-die-a-plan-to-let-us-know/177198.md?page=2)