# Morbid Q. - How many SDMBers have died? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423 "2008-09-07T00:26:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/1 "2008-09-07T00:26:24Z")
And how did others find out? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/2 "2008-09-07T00:48:32Z")
Mostly through other dopers who knew them IRL or to whom they were particularly close - that’s how it happened with **[Ayesha](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=434281&highlight=ayesha)**, **[Persephone](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=243208&highlight=persephone)** and **[poopah chalupa](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=147170)**, at least, although I wasn’t actively posting when the latter died. Family members also get in touch with the board sometimes. **[David Simmons](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464664)** posted up until his last weeks, and family members gave us the final word through his account and on their own. Since this isn’t a technical question I’m going to take it to MPSIMS, which is where most of those threads have been posted. Goddam but this is sad stuff to read, even not knowing some of the people involved. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/3 "2008-09-07T00:53:01Z")
OTTOMH **Poopa Chalupa** -Died when he was blown off an overpass. \*\* Persephone\*\*- Died when she fell in the tub and hit her head. Her husband or ex husband notified a few close friends, several of whom were Dopers. I know there are more. I can’t recall at this time. There is also one case of an alleged death, disputed by many. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/4 "2008-09-07T00:54:08Z")
[An earlier tally](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=452234) ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/5 "2008-09-07T01:00:01Z")
As we determined in the prior thread from finding her obituary, **indecisive1** died from lung cancer. ☹ Unfortunately, from the tone of [his last post here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470819) (and absence since then), I believe **A.R. Cane** may be another Doper that we’ve lost to cancer even though it has not yet been confirmed to my knowledge. It is sad to think that there are probably missed posters who have died without any of us realizing it. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/6 "2008-09-07T01:01:21Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Persephone\*\*- Died when she fell in the tub and hit her head. Her husband or ex husband notified a few close friends, several of whom were Dopers. This is how a friend of mine died a few months ago. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/7 "2008-09-07T01:50:47Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Persephone\*\*- Died when she fell in the tub and hit her head. Her husband or ex husband notified a few close friends, several of whom were Dopers. I have been really scared of this happening to me ever since Cristi died. She was epileptic, by the way, so it’s probable that the hitting her head was as a result of a seizure. I often think of Cristi this days, as I am back in Michigan, where we became friends. Every day I walk past a church, and only the other day I realized she’d once pointed it out to me as where she’d been married. She is missed. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/8 "2008-09-07T01:51:30Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > **Poopa Chalupa** -Died when he was blown off an overpass. Not to be morbid, but how did this happen? Was his car blown off the overpass, or just him? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/9 "2008-09-07T01:53:12Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Not to be morbid, but how did this happen? Was his car blown off the overpass, or just him? Seems like he was changing a tire for a stranded motorist. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/10 "2008-09-07T01:55:06Z")
IIRC He was sitting on the railing of the overpass when a large truck came by. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/11 "2008-09-07T02:08:27Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > **[Ayesha](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=434281&highlight=ayesha)** )(_#%^_()#^&^&\*()$^& ::ahem:: > [@](#): > > Goddam but this is sad stuff to read, even not knowing some of the people involved. I didn’t meet Poohpah, Aye or David Simmons, but Euty and I had a ball with Persphone in Chicago some years back. And now I’ve gotta keep myself composed at work. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/12 "2008-09-07T02:19:10Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > )(_#%^_()#^&^&\*()$^& > > ::ahem:: > > I didn’t meet Poohpah, Aye or David Simmons, but Euty and I had a ball with Persphone in Chicago some years back. > > And now I’ve gotta keep myself composed at work. Aah, yeah sorry **punha** , I didn’t even think to let you know via LJ or anything . One of the most helpless and horrifying feelings I’ve ever experienced was trying to track **Eutychus** down so he didn’t learn via the Boards. (He lives in RI, as do I.) I miss her. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/13 "2008-09-07T02:32:47Z")
[This post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2652881&postcount=58) has a link to the news story on poopah’s death. That page is no longer active, but it might possibly be in the archives. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/14 "2008-09-07T02:35:02Z")
> [@Rasa](#): > > Aah, yeah sorry **punha** , I didn’t even think to let you know via LJ or anything . No worries. My brother ( **Captain Carrot** ) didn’t tell me about her or David Simmons. In the case of the latter, I found out accidentally. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/15 "2008-09-07T02:42:24Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > [This post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2652881&postcount=58) has a link to the news story on poopah’s death. That page is no longer active, but it might possibly be in the archives. Would this be it? [http://216.173.246.226/Astories/nov28/bridgedeath.html](http://216.173.246.226/Astories/nov28/bridgedeath.html) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/16 "2008-09-07T02:44:07Z")
Ya nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/17 "2008-09-07T05:10:36Z")
My late wife, Barracuda, was not a prolific poster. She died in July of last year. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/18 "2008-09-07T16:28:19Z")
I’m very sorry to hear that, **movingfinger**. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/19 "2008-09-07T19:52:43Z")
Off topic somewhat, but my sister, who is the executrix of my will, has instructions on how to notify the message boards I visit, should I die unexpectedly. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423/20 "2008-09-07T20:01:53Z")
Am I the only one who has a last SDMB post already prepared? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-q-how-many-sdmbers-have-died/462423.md?page=2)