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…)
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.
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.
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.
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
I think Pollo Boyo would probably make some kind of announcement if something ever happened to me. I hope he would, anyway.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.