# If you die, will we know it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 2, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115 "2007-08-02T13:13:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/41 "2007-08-02T18:46:26Z")
I’ve always meant to arrange something with my wife so that she could post as a guest to tell of my passing, since that’s the only way anybody would know (I really don’t have any social connection to Dopers outside the board). Just have never gotten around to it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/42 "2007-08-02T18:56:12Z")
Yes, because I don’t plan on dying until I’m very well known. So you’ll see the obits and hear about the National Day of Mourning. Failing that, I do have a few friends who know I post here, one of whom posts regularly. So she could take care of it, too. Assuming she knows that she knows me. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/43 "2007-08-02T19:01:33Z")
You would never know, and that is fine with me. I don’t see any real gain to the Dope by posting news of my demise. I don’t see any gain to my immediate family or friends, buy having to inform a message board that I have passed, and it really won’t effect me in any way. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/44 "2007-08-02T19:11:01Z")
People I work with probably would not notice, how could anyone here? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/45 "2007-08-02T19:12:12Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] …there’s only so much you can care for someone who’s just pixels on a screen. [/QUOTE] Right…but that’s different than saying that you can’t care at all for someone who’s just pixels on the screen. I’d certainly want to know if any board regular kicked the bucket. (Even you, **stretch** 😛 ) And my brother, aka **Billdo** would probably notice if I died. He’d tell you guys. And vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/46 "2007-08-02T19:35:27Z")
With permission from the mods, I would like to invite you all to subscribe to “Sapo Today”, the magazine that will keep you up to date in the fascinating topic of Sapo. I am sure that my death will make the cover of that issue. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/47 "2007-08-02T19:41:39Z")
Mrs. Homie would tell you guys about it. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/48 "2007-08-02T19:44:52Z")
I seem to remember a website that would post your death to whomever you chose. You would pay a subscription fee and then the site would send you an e-mail every x number of days. If you did not respond to the e-mail, it was presumed that you were dead. With how bad I am about checking my e-mail, I could have died a couple hundred times. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/49 "2007-08-02T19:47:34Z")
Naw, I doubt it. I don’t post more than 4 or 5 times a day (on average, some days more, some less.) As far as I know, no one here knows me in real life (I posted once asking if anyone did, but it degenerated into people claiming they could figure it out and trying to guess and the mods shut it down) and so no one would be here to tell. In fact I came close a few years ago and as far as I can tell, it wasn’t noticed. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/50 "2007-08-02T19:48:41Z")
I imagine the Seattle Doper Trivia posse would get each other’s back. Also my Doper cow-orker might let you know. So don’t worry, you’ll all be able to mourn me properly and miss me in your own way. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/51 "2007-08-02T19:54:55Z")
If my wife didn’t post about it, I’m sure **silenus** would start to wonder where the other vocal Dodger fan on the board went. 🙂 Otherwise, I don’t see how anyone would find out. I’ve yet to meet any Dopers in person, so… ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/52 "2007-08-02T22:18:30Z")
**lekatt** was right! Did anyone miss me while I was gone? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/53 "2007-08-02T22:39:03Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] If my wife didn’t post about it, I’m sure **silenus** would start to wonder where the other vocal Dodger fan on the board went. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I dunno anyone would worry per se… you guys always leave _before_ it’s all over. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/54 "2007-08-02T22:53:25Z")
Yes, because my evil twin sister posts on the board. You better believe she’d create a OMG!!! MONSTRO IS DEAD!!! thread. It’s sad because I think ya’ll would find out about my demise before the people at work. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/55 "2007-08-02T23:01:52Z")
No. I mean, I’ll probably stop posting if I die, but apart from that there won’t be much in the way of a clue. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/56 "2007-08-02T23:35:26Z")
Hmmm… I doubt it. My husband knows about the board, of course, but I doubt he’d think of letting you all know about my having kicked it. My parents _might_ think of it, _maybe_. They do know about the boards, of course, and even know the website address (they came here to buy me a Straight Dope coffee mug for Christmas a few years ago) – but it’s rather doubtful they’d think of coming here and giving you all the sad news. One of my kids would probably be the most likely to post my obit on the SDMB – neither of them are Dopers, but they’ve grown up hearing about what we call ‘Mom’s message board’ and would both be savvy enough to get on my computer and find this site in my favorites. But maybe they’d be too broken up over my tragic demise to think of it. So probably the only clue you’ll all have is the fact that I stop posting. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/57 "2007-08-03T13:08:34Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] No. I mean, I’ll probably stop posting if I die… [/QUOTE] That’s debatable. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/58 "2007-08-03T13:13:07Z")
Well, I don’t like absolutes, so I can only say that it would probably slow me down a bit, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/59 "2007-08-03T14:38:49Z")
Probably not. So let’s just start a catch phrase now. Remember the Zebra! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115/60 "2007-08-03T15:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] There are a few here that know my real name and should my demise come in a manner spectacular enough to make the national press, then “maybe.” Otherwise… no. [/QUOTE] From now on, email me every day…and the morning you don’t, I’ll make a big post announcing your death. As for me, someone who knows me in RL would likely post to Livejournal, and I expect someone from there who is also here (some overlap, on my friends list) would post here about it. Leading a bunch of you who joined in the last 3-4 years to say “Who?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-die-will-we-know-it/414115.md?page=4)