# If something happened to you, who would tell the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602 "2001-05-16T14:01:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/61 "2001-05-19T19:02:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \* > > \*\*Trip, > > We don’t all know your real name. We won’t know that Darwin Award was you… \*\* > > WHEW! > > My secret is still safe. . . > Now if I can just find a better place for that .38 Special instead of my nightstand, and take that hot cup of cafe mocha from out of my crotch when I drive. > > Tripler > Because my job isn’t dangerous enough for me. \*\* Oh, Trip - just so you know, using a shell for a fuse in the car has been done. Think it was a .22, and gave the guy an Honorable mention (wounded, but will not pass on genes…) ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/62 "2001-05-19T19:29:55Z")
I opened this thread a half dozen times already. I think about it, and realize that it ain’t likely that many of my real world regular associates would post anything on line at all if I died. That seemed so . . . tasteless. So, then I thought some more. Well, now there is a file on my hard-drive that addresses my son, and says, Son, I died. That is the filename, so, chances are he will at least have a small chance of finding it. It tells him to cut and paste a message to my on line acquaintances, both Email, and this board. Chances are, after I have been dead long enough for him to be looking at the My Documents folder he will find it. He is a member of the board, but if he logs on in my name, the cookies will give him access to my screen name. So, I sat down and wrote the “I am dead” letter to cyber friends. Damn, I am good! This thing is not quite worth dying for, but you get the point. Make 'em cry, and leave 'em laughing. Too bad I won’t get to read the responses. Tris, who is just fine, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/63 "2001-05-19T19:33:06Z")
Even if I die in a wonderously bizarre way, like had the fall in the kitchen on the puddle of liquid detergent that had leaked stealthily overnight to ambush me outright killed me, maybe my SO \*\*Drachillix, \*\*would inform the board. If I go out in an ordinary way, I fully expect him to be so overwrought that posting on the SDMB would be the last thing on his mind. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/64 "2001-05-20T06:09:47Z")
After Wally died, I made arrangements for this very situation. In the event of my demise, my best friend has explicit instructions to notify **tater** and **Euty** –I assume one or the other would pass the info along to the rest of you. The same instructions are written in my will for my family in case something should happen to my best friend also. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/65 "2001-05-23T22:27:57Z")
This is something I wondered about as well, especially since I haven’t met any other Dopers in real life. It turns out that this “problem” was sort-of solved for me about a month ago when I found out that I know (and have known for about fifteen years) **cmkeller** ’s aunt, uncle and cousins (even though I’ve never met Chaim IRL). So, if something happened to me, they would probably mention it to Chaim who, I hope, would pass it on to you guys. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/66 "2001-05-23T23:28:55Z")
I think **Pollo Boyo** would probably make some kind of announcement if something ever happened to me. I hope he would, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/67 "2001-05-24T00:12:15Z")
Nobody tell you that I was gone. It’s moot anyway, since firstly, nobody would notice. Then, if by freak chance someone did, nobody would care. It’s great to be loved. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/68 "2001-05-24T00:52:36Z")
This is why I always tell the board if I’m going to be offline for a while. At least you’ll know I’m not dead. I don’t know who’d notify the board if I died. I’m the only person in my family who’s computer literate. I’m the only one who’s ever accessed the [http://www](http://www). I’m the onl’y one who has email. Even if I left them word to notify y’all, I don’t know if they COULD do it. If they tried, they’d probably give up in frustration waiting for the board to respond. I have written down the URL and my UserName and my password on a card in my wallet, asking that y’all be told, but that’s the best I can do. Maybe a sympathetic cop or doctor or someone would do it. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/69 "2001-05-24T03:34:52Z")
Since I’ve never personally met anybody from the board and no one I know IRL knows of the SDMB, if I vanished from the scene, if anyone even noticed at all, it would probably be on the order of, “whatever happened to Birdman?” But I wouldn’t expect that, either. And that’s not bitching, but it probably is true. ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602/70 "2001-05-24T03:43:00Z")
I guess either **DigitalMuse, ssskuggiii,** or **crystalgrl** would. I also see **PurePhreak** and **weyrdchic** on an almost-daily basis, so it could be one of them too. I don’t think I have to worry about the board finding out. A better question, of course, is whether the thread “something tragic has happened to vengeance and dust” would get any views at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-something-happened-to-you-who-would-tell-the-sdmb/65602.md?page=3)