# The life you live online, and In the Event of Your Passing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148 "2004-12-16T14:59:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/41 "2004-12-18T02:44:25Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > My plan is simple–I’'ll just haunt the SDMB. I’ll be the first ever messageboard ghost. Like **audiobottle** , I’ll probably post regularly in MPSIMS and keep you all updated on what the afterlife is like. > > “Gaaah! Spider in my angelic robe!” Hee hee hee! I don’t know what I would do. Probably have a friend or my SO post about what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/42 "2004-12-18T03:51:39Z")
When we went through our first Doper Death a few years ago, I made my husband promise to log on to the boards that I frequent to let everyone know. The SDMB community, in particular, is a close knit group and I would want to know if ANY of you met an untimely demise. We celebrate the births and tribute the lives of the people we love. Not to channel Martha Stewart, but it’s a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/43 "2004-12-18T04:06:49Z")
If no one posts of my death within a month of my demise, I will come back as a super fast hamster and take over at the wheel here. When the board refreshes immediately, you will know I have passed on. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/44 "2004-12-18T04:19:45Z")
You know, all the more incentive to get out there and affect (or infect) the people who are really around you, right? I love these boards but the more lurker-ish I become, the better I feel. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/45 "2004-12-18T12:40:52Z")
I know what you mean, **Rooves.** And to _some_ degree I feel the same way. A person has only so much time and motivation to build an online life. However, the familiar phrase ‘it’s only the internet’ is, I think, a bit of a cop-out. Message-boards are real communities and they do affect and reflect, for better or worse, the people who participate in them. I met my friend face-to-face only once, but we spoke online often and I and others still miss her. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/46 "2004-12-18T14:41:31Z")
I just thought of another spin on this, this morning: What if one of us went to _jail_? [sub](and for a crime we didn’t commit)[/sub] I can see it now: "Guys! Guys! We were hanging out at the DopeFest the other night, and all of a sudden, the cops bust down the door and drag out **Tripler**! We haven’t bailed him out yet, but the dest sergeant muttered something about “conspiracy and attempted insurrection in a try to overthrow the government of Nauru. We know he’s innocent, because the dates and times don’t match. We were taking a tour of the museum during the attempted coup!” Note to self: I shouldn’t leave my ACME® ‘Do-it-yourself Coup Kit’ laying about the house anyways. :smack: Tripler “Yeah, he called us on his one free phone call. He says he needs a harmonica, a pack of smokes, and a tin cup.” ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/47 "2004-12-18T20:20:24Z")
I post rarely enough that I doubt I’d be missed. As far as other boards go, I’m very active on one of them, so I suppose they’d notice something was amiss when I stopped posting and being available on IM. On another, I regularly take four-to-six-week sabbaticals because I get so frustrated with the sheer number of stupid people that post there, and I’m fairly hated, so they’d either not notice or celebrate. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/48 "2004-12-19T03:00:18Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Were I to die, you all would know. For at my death, the thousand mighty warriors who follow me shall all become crazed, and the whole of the earth shall hear their cries of anguish. My funeral pyre shall reach so high that the gods themseleves would take note. So it was prophesied by the norn, so it shall be. Hey, you too?? Sadly, I don’t know any RL Dopers; just Really Loathsome Dopes. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/49 "2004-12-19T04:05:52Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I just thought of another spin on this, this morning: > > What if one of us went to _jail_? [sub](and for a crime we didn’t commit)[/sub] Posting on the boards? As Dopers, it’s our honour-bound duty to try and get you out! …Bail? Pffft. Posting bail is for sissies. Now where’s that stash of acid and nail file for the bars? ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/50 "2004-12-19T13:21:30Z")
I died last week. [sub]Well… I got better…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/51 "2004-12-19T13:41:24Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > I died last week. > [sub]Well… I got better…[/sub] [Obligatory _Princess Bride_ reference] Obviously, you were only mostly dead. [/OPBR] ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/52 "2004-12-19T13:54:30Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > And just one post in GD: > > “HA! Told ya so!” > > 😃 Sorry, but I’ve had dibs on that one for five years now! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/53 "2004-12-19T14:21:58Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > [Obligatory _Princess Bride_ reference] > > Obviously, you were only mostly dead. > > [/OPBR] Oddly enough, I was planning on blaving later today as well! What a world 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/54 "2004-12-20T11:00:16Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > Nocturnal\_Tick and I are moving in together in September , so if I die, I hope he would notice and inform you all. ‘Moving in’ as in sharing a house or something more romanticci? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/55 "2004-12-20T11:02:44Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I just thought of another spin on this, this morning: > > What if one of us went to _jail_? [sub](and for a crime we didn’t commit)[/sub] > > I can see it now: > > "Guys! Guys! We were hanging out at the DopeFest the other night, and all of a sudden, the cops bust down the door and drag out **Tripler**! We haven’t bailed him out yet, but the dest sergeant muttered something about “conspiracy and attempted insurrection in a try to overthrow the government of Nauru. We know he’s innocent, because the dates and times don’t match. We were taking a tour of the museum during the attempted coup!” > > Note to self: I shouldn’t leave my ACME® ‘Do-it-yourself Coup Kit’ laying about the house anyways. :smack: > > Tripler > “Yeah, he called us on his one free phone call. He says he needs a harmonica, a pack of smokes, and a tin cup.” I am the Nauruan Ambassador. News of Mr.Tripler’s attempt to destabilize our country have not been well received. Details of Mr.Tripler have been issued to all ports and air facilities. Please report any sightings to a member of the Nauruan government. This man is armed and dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/56 "2004-12-20T11:14:35Z")
Pricegal knows about this place and has even posted her a few times, but I doubt she’d post that I died. I can’t think of anyone else who might, so I guess I’d just disappear when the reaper came for me. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148/57 "2004-12-20T12:40:52Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > ‘Moving in’ as in sharing a house or something more romanticci? 🙂 It’s purely a friends thing. And this has nothing to do with the fact my boyfriend is reading this over my shoulder… 😉 I am of course, kidding. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-you-live-online-and-in-the-event-of-your-passing/280148.md?page=2)