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.
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. 
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
People I work with probably would not notice, how could anyone here?
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.
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.
Mrs. Homie would tell you guys about it.
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
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.
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. 
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…
lekatt was right! Did anyone miss me while I was gone?
I dunno anyone would worry per se… you guys always leave before it’s all over.
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.
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.
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.
That’s debatable.
Well, I don’t like absolutes, so I can only say that it would probably slow me down a bit, at least.
Probably not.
So let’s just start a catch phrase now.
Remember the Zebra!
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?”