In the vent of my death the executor of my will has instructions to inform the boards. And my address book has certain people that should be informed of my passing, and a couple of them are Dopers, so they might speak out as well.
Horseflesh, your kids get my monster slippers! 
I’m engaged to a doper, so no worries there. I’m still hoping to die mid post though.
Haven’t quite worked out how to hit the submit button though.
I don’t have much of a presence here and don’t think my absence would be noted.
I remember when Persephone died. 
There is another much smaller board I frequent. We lost our founding member very suddenly last March. You can imagine how sad it was. She left info with her husband and me, and passed on the administration duties to a trusted fellow boardmember. This all happened within a few weeks.
Several of us had met, and we had a couple phone numbers.
After our friend’s passing we established a more thorough (voluntary) list.
Can I have that jacket if you die? I think it would look fabulous on me.
I’m kind of hoping my last post will be:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh!
I may have to put instructions in my will for someone to do that just in case I’m not able. Or figure out a way to post from the great beyond. That ought to settle a couple of Great Debates…
Most of my RL friends here in Chicago are Dopers. I assume one of them would pass on the news.
Three friends have been informed to log in under my user name in the event of my unfortunate and tragic passing from this life. I know they’ll be devastated and cover themselves in sackcloth and pour ashes upon their heads, but I’ve asked them to be brave so that y’all will know.
However, I kinda like the idea of putting a statement in my will along with my user name and password. My sister is executor (executrix?) of my will. I’m sure she’d be pleased to know she is charged with telling a bunch of complete strangers of my demise. Then again, it’s a way to bug her from beyond the grave. That makes it all win-win for me!
I’ve told Mr. Ujest to come in here and post my demise.
Being writing challenged ( he will talk your ear off) he would probably post:
**Shirley is dead. Just thought you should know. **
This is the same man that I’ve told that no matter what age I die at, I want the picture of me in that bikini taken on the beach of California used as my Obit photo.
“But you were 21 when that was taken.”
Me, smiling. " I know."
" What if you die at 95?"
“Then everyone will say, Wow, she looks great!”
“But that is lying.”
“I don’t care. I’ll be dead.”
Seriously, it’s probably a good idea to have some codicil in your will addressing this, to notify (if not to distribute your worldly goods to) your on-line buddies. IANAL, but I can’t think of a reason you couldn’t so direct your executor to do so.
Now that I think of it, my current will still lists my ex-wife, one of the four worst people ever, as my sole heir, so I should get around to changing that soon. When I do, I’ll get The Straight Dope on it at the same time.
Well, thank my lucky stars that I’m the epitome of good health. The possibility of croaking in mid post, though, is so remote tha
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I run a small art forum for a friend, most of the users are teenage aged girls who discuss art and show off their work.
Yesterday I saw a post titled “name_of_regular_poster’s mother”. I opened it up and inside was a message from the posters mother, that her 15 year old daughter would not be posting anymore, she was diagnosed with leukemia two months ago and during surgery just 1 days after she last posted, she had died. Before her operation they had talked about that there was a possibility that she might not survive surgery and in that case she wanted her mother to tell her friends. Her mother had then looked through the history of her computer and found the forum and descided to tell us about it.
We all knew she where in the hospital and could only post when the nurses would bring her a laptop. I don’t think any of us knew that it was serious though, in her last post she told us about her new cats and sounded so happy.
I’m very glad her mother went through the trouble of telling us about it, especially in a time that must be so difficult for her.
I’ve read most of what she wrote on the forum and even though many knew her better, it still hit me quite hard.
Jeez, I hope my girlfriend doesn’t do the same thing. Those Japanese schoolgirls would be so choked up.
Damn.Now I have to go remove NutMagnet from my Celebrity Death Pool list.
For crying out loud,you only had to hold onto life for another 13 days.Breathing’s not difficult dammit…
You should probably go ahead and post that now. Just so, one day, we can see that pic again and say, “Wow, she doesn’t look as if she’s aged a day.”
I suppose that when I die, I’ll just have to log on and tell everybody else about it. Seeing as how being on these boards seems to take up most of my waking hours, I don’t see how a little thing like dying is going to stop me any.
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!”
“Help me decide what to wear when I haunt my mother-in-law”
“To Eve–you’ll never guess who I just ran into over here”
“Wow, Elvis really HAS left the building”
And just one post in GD:
“HA! Told ya so!”
What?! You cheating bitch!
Oh… wait…
I married a Doper, though he’s not very active here lately. Honestly, I don’t know if he would post anything here (actually, I doubt he would), and I’m not sure I would if something were to happen to him. Again, I doubt I would.
We’re more active on Livejournal, and I’m not even sure if I would post something there, I suppose I would, but I don’t know, I can’t think the circumstances through.
It would be more likely that I spoke personally to a close friend who also posts to LJ (and probably the SDMB) and they relay the news. But, I just don’t know. And I can’t speak for my husband, but I imagine his answer wouldn’t be too far off from mine.
Don’t think I’ll bother. I’m not that important to any of you, nor any of you to me.
We had another thread like this a while back, and I’ve thought about it since then and decided that it ain’t worth it to me. I mean seriously, what’s waiting for me in the Great Beyond… either an afterlife or nothingness. An afterlife would be great, but I can live with nothingness (haha, no pun intended). So to everyone I know, I’d have to say: don’t worry about it.
I too remember when Persephone died, and I too felt really sad. To see all the grief it causes when a community is notified of the loss of one of its own, I don’t want people to go through that just because of me. So if there still is an SDMB all those years from now (and I sure hope there will be!) I would want everyone to continue going on about their lives.
OTOH, there are posters I haven’t seen around in a while that I miss and have to wonder if they’ve just found other internet haunts or…
Don’t know any Dopers IRL (as far as I know). I doubt my wife will post anything. I doubt anyone will notice.
::sniff::