Oh, what a dirty rotten trick. Playing with our emotions.
Glad you’re well.
I’ll tell you why I bought it hook, line, and sinker – and I was the first response to the my sister is dead announcement.
I was already worried about umkay’s extended absence, and knew the previous absence was related to a medical issue. And from her own description, the results of autonomic dysreflexia can be fatal. A bunch of us had already said as much in the wheelchair thread.
And as more time went by, I was privately more and more worried about such an outcome.
So when that post came it found a ready, and credulous, reader in me. I thought the “last days” phrasing was odd because the medical crisis would be more sudden, but I supposed it was a combination of inartful phrasing and a reaction to a medical problem that lasted a few days.
I knew her family didn’t know about this thread, but imagined that a carer had mentioned the Straight Dope after the death – not sure how much posthumous privacy a carer might be expected to uphold.
But I am happy to be revealed as a great fool, if it also means that umkay is not dead.
About the fake brother: he’s a vandal. He sees something nice, and his instinct is to destroy it. That’s ugly and evil.
I choose to focus on the fact that there is no untimely death, and I get to save a whole bunch of money on flowers.
i agree bricker, a.d. can lead to stroke can lead to death. when i saw the post by not okay, i thought perhaps that is what happened.
i’m very glad to hear that you have sorted out the reason for the a.d. going off. and that is is ulcers, and not death!
not that i anticipate anything happening in the near future… but i do have in my emergency folder to contact tuba diva or twickster in a final event. that way info comes from a trusted source.
You know, seriously, that’s not a bad idea. I assume there are people here who would want to know, so they could mourn (or celebrate, as appropriate) my demise. And if not, don’t correct me; leave me my illusions.
I think so many of us believed it because it’s so hard to understand why anyone would pull such a prank.
It’s difficult for me, at least, to understand what psychological reward someone would get from doing something like this. I know there are people that troll on a regular basis, but this goes beyond that.
I went to bed sad last night, only to wake up to this great news. I am only on page 10 of the other thread, and I was too upset to read any more. Now I look forward to finishing the rest!
I have no words for the kind of person who would troll like that.
WOOHOO!!
umkay is alive!
Oh my god its a ghost! :eek::eek::eek:
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks like this. Seriously, my sister, the executrix of my will, has a separate instruction sheet of folks to notify of my death, if and when. One of them is the Dope.
One thing I can’t remember, she’s the only person who has my username and password both, other than me or the mods, who I presume could get it, so, should she post as a new user, or under my name? I’d presume the former.
WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Very glad to hear it was a hoax.
I too had doubts (sure, it’s easy to say that now… but it’s true.) It’s just one of those cases where I’d much rather be fooled and look silly for buying it, than casting aspersions and then finding out it was true. (It was the lack of promised wake details after a while that really started ringing false.)
Very glad to look silly today. Welcome back from the dead, umkay… did you bring us anything?
Well…
I am a very happy man today umkay, I bought asshat’s post hook,line and sinker. I was going to get up this morning an start trolling the LA Times for your obit, I am pleased to not do that, welcome back, glad to know you are ok.
Now Dopers I have the perfect hanging tree across the street from me, tall and strong with a suitable branch over the middle of the street. I can get a street closure permit from the city all we need is a rope and some lawn chairs. I am thinking Sunday afternoon. Anybody in?
I will admit it, I cried a little last night, so asshat when I get a hold of you…
CAPT
New user, please.
I didn’t respond earlier, but was not going to immediately assume it was true at face value by a drive-by posting with no details–but then again, there wasn’t anything to show it wasn’t true. Just a friendly reminder all, for those of us who have been around here, and online in general, this was not the first time that a “death” or serious was reported, and taken at face value, then later found either to be a complete hoax. And I would not be surprised that some of the hoaxees were in on the hoax.
My B.S. meter is calibrated extra high, so I bought it hook, line and sinker. I’m so glad to hear you are alive. I truly think the board is a better place with you in it.
I have no proof whatsoever of this, but a gut instinct tells me a person who was banned very shortly after asking inane questions at the end of umkay’s Ask thread may have been the one to ‘strike back’ as it were. It’s not an accusation, just a gut feeling.
I am, on one condition: instead of kicking the stool out from under the TSF’s feet, we instead have a jack that slowly lowers the feet, slooooooowly.
(TSF = twisted, sick f__k)
Wait, that might make me a TSF for wanting to do it that way.
Naah.
I was going for a donation to charity. Oddly the charge wouldn’t go through on my debit card even after confirming with my bank.
No idea what charity umkay or her family would approve of but I found one I thought would suitably honor her based upon what we know of her.
Still think I’ll send in that donation. This time “in honor of” instead of “in memorial of”.
Wow!!!
This will be a great thread to bump about 5 years from now.
I was very upset to have heard of your passing.
Now I find that if I watch a movie and go to sleep it can ressurect the dead.
I will only use this power for good, I vow.
So glad you’re OK!
(I’d best admit that I’m crushing on you a bit as well.)