Yeah, you will know it. As figments of my imagination, all of you will immediately cease to exist.
Just checking in. A bit of a headache, but still alive.
I might give instructions to my brother or one of my friends (my parents aren’t so tech-savvy) to notify you guys, but I have absolutely no plans to go anywhere. You’ll be stuck with me, excessive flirting and weird initiation rituals and all, for a while yet.
And if I do kick it, I’ll come back to give you guys the Dope on the afterlife.
No, the only way you’d know is because the posts would seem funnier, the roses would smell sweeter, the traffic would seem lighter, your homes would seem neater.
And Og would be dancing in the end-zone.
Yup. My husband knows about the Dope, and has instructions to start a thread and let everyone know that I’ve died.
You would be able to learn of my death by making a successful DC 20 Knowledge (the planes) check. Alternatively, a successful DC 20 bardic knowledge check would gain the same information.
My other answer was that you’d know I was gone when the announcement came that my estate had established a trust fund to provide the board with fresh hamsters, upgraded annually, in perpetuity.
When I die, the world ends and the universe explodes. It will happen too fast for you to notice.
Lawoot and I are sibs - I’m sure if one went the other would tell the SDMB.
… although neither of us post enough to be missed anyway…
Probally not. I haven’t told anybody my real name and few people I actually know know my screename or that I post on the Dope. The only scenario I can think of would involve me making a flurry of suicide related posts followed by no posts, ever.
I imagine a large number of ex-Dopers have already died and we have had no notification. We do occasionally hear of a death, about once a year on average, but that is, I think, the exception rather than the rule.
It’s very unlikely that anybody would notify you lot of my death. And I am not sure anyone here would care that much, I don’t have any real rapport with any of you. I’m just background noise, here, really.
I have a file on my desktop named “Open Upon My Death.” It has my final wishes - including a post here and and a few other boards informing you of my demise.
I expect a wake like this board has never seen before. Or barring that, just pop a beer in my honor.
Hah, this guy knows the story, but I actually believed at one point earlier this year that he WAS dead. When he first joined he posted a ton, think Auto on steroids minus the TMI. Then one day in April or something I was looking at an old thread and thought, hmmm, I haven’t seen that guy around in awhile, lemme check… oh…
One day in February he stopped posting, and hadn’t even logged on since then. I calculated his post count and he posted on average something like 25-30 times a day before this one day. No “hey bye guys, going to hawaii” or anything. For months there was nothing.
Unfortunately one day he did come back with a convenient story of time fixing up the place, yadda yadda yadda. And he hasn’t shut up since.
My brother doen’t get this place, but understands I like it, so he might fling you guys an update. Bt heckles, I’m just 26. I will BURY YOU ALL!
If? What is this if business? Have some of you managed to avoid the specter of Death? And YOU’RE HOLDING OUT ON US?! Now I’m pissed.
If I died, no one here would know because no one I know IRL would think to mention it. But I prob’ly wouldn’t be missed here anyway.
I think Ninevah would mention it. Likewise, if something happened to Ninevah (Og forbid), then I’d be sure to come here for grief and sympathy.
Rico? Rico? Who was that again?
I have the SDMB as my ICE on my cell phone.
But please promise me that when Anderson Cooper and Larry King interview you about my death you won’t say “He was a quiet guy… kept to himself… friendly but kinda shy…”. I’d rather be thought of as “Oh hell ya, it’s like we can all come into the open again… and I think you’re gonna find that those calves and paralegals were just the tip of the iceberg when you dig up some of the other places he’s lived!”
Unless Only Mostly Dead and I die together, I’m sure one of us would come on to find support and tell of the other spouse’s passing.
Wouldn’t I have to die first? Although I’d kind of like my screen name to be retired if I do…well, I suppose I could leave it to you in my will.
I would like to know about it if any of you died. I suppose I subscribe to the “no man is an island” persuasion rather than the “we’re just pixels on a screen” one. And I just asked Mr. Legend to post here if I do die (let’s assume he’d actually remember to do that).
I suppose it would be in poor taste to start a thread called the 2007 1/2 Doper Death pool. Points would be awarded based upon the days remaining on the paid Dopers current membership. Guests would only count as unique hits, not for score.
Ok, bad idea.
SSG Schwartz
Nope, and a good thing. It’d be awful if my family read some of my posts.
Besides, the only Doper who knew me in real life died.