As close as the DFW dopers are, I am quite sure we would notice you missing.
Zyada seems to keep an eye on us. 
Thanks Zy!
Huh. Nobody in my RL knows about this place. Well, they’ve heard of it, but they don’t know where it is. And even if they did, I doubt they’d post here to inform any of you of anything. Most of the people I know think this place is “silly”.
Bastards.
On second thought, I could ask my mom to do it (she loves you guys), but in her insane sadness and grief after my death, she’d probably forget to post. Plus, she’ll probably die first. 
I think we neede a new rule to make sure we know when people die:
Zev Steinhardt
Boy, they don’t call us Baltimorons for nothing. I read “410 alliance” three times before I realized what 410 meant. :rolleyes:
Guess the blizzard has rattled my brain.
I live in Cincinnati and I knew that was your area code. Bawlmer, feh!
I’m not sure why, but this idea cracked me up. SDMB Buddies. rubes would be mine. Every morning I would send him an e-mail saying, “I’m still alive.”
What if both partners die simultaniously, like one is in a plane, and it crashes, on a car driven by the other guy. I propose a thread in MPSIMS that every doper must post in every day to assure everyone they are still alive.
What’s all this nonsense about posting and e-mailing? Aren’t you all hooked up to the Master Doper Monitor[sup]TM[/sup]?? It’s really not that difficult to get used to the probe…
What??
Thats only for memebers of the the SDMB clique [sup] TM[/sup] …Your not supposed to tell them
I don’t know anyone IRL who posts here. My SO knows I post here, maybe I’ll mention to him that if I die he is to put a note up. I post from my home computer so he wouldn’t have to guess at my password, but he is not a message board person, he might not know how to do it.
You go GFH. First morning that I don’t get an email, I’ll start the thread. j/k
My sisters know that I follow these boards, and they might post somthing about my demise if i asked them to.
This is an excellent rule, but I have a slight modification.
“Any member who violates this rule will be resurrected and not allowed to die for at least another 5000 posts. [sub]AND we expect you to post SLOWLY[/sub]”
Actually, I would like to request that NO dying be allowed. Not now, not EVER. I have now officially experienced MORE than enough loss to last me the rest of my lifetime.
Please, God?
Cheri
I think that anyone who dies should have their posting privleges revoked.
OK, Scotti, I’ll go for that.
Sadly, if I went, I doubt anyone outside of my parents would know about it. Hopefully, it’d be noticed that I was missing, however, my parents would never be able to figure out how to send e-mails on my PC (or even access the address book) to inform my RL life friends and the odd Doper listed in it of my demise.
I’ve often thought that we need to had some kind of Doper Emergency Alert System, so that those of us who are kind of isolated can get help if they need it. I have no idea of how it would work, or if it would meet with The Reader’s approval.
Hm. I suppose if I had a will I might add a line about notifying not only the SDMB but also a couple of other boards I post on.
Interesting, if a little sad, thread. Being single and also not knowing anyone in Real Life who posts here, I too think no one would notice if I kicked the bucket. I like the idea of having a **buddy[/b,and just recently added a couple to my list.
And y’all are right: this does have that “family feel”.
Quasi
I don’t know any Dopers IRL.
I’m unemployed(chronic depression-been 7 or so years now)
I don’t really talk to my neighbors.
Since my friends started getting married, we don’t see eachother as often as we used to.
My parents spend half the year in Florida and my sister and niece live there.
I can’t get rid of the image of my dying at the computer.
My landlord finally investigating the smell. The door swings open and reveals my decomposing corpse sitting in the very chair I’m in now. My dead fingers arched over this same keyboard. The light from my monitor refelecting off my clouding eyes.[sub]shiver[/sub]
I believe that some folks would notice my absence after a couple of comic book, SF, or GLBT threads.
I'm less concerned with how many would notice than with how many would care.
I was seven or so when I saw an episode of Too Close For Comfort that has stayed with me since(I'm 27 now). The grandfather dies. There is no space on any pew at his funeral. Henry wonders"If I died, could I fill a chapel?" I have wondered the same thing for twenty years. Have I touched enough lives for my passing to matter? Will I fill a chapel?My sister knows (at length) about these boards, too.
Except she has no idea how to turn on a computer, and even if she did, I’d have to find the actual boards for her.
Being dead, that would be quite a hard feat to accomplish.
My dear hubby, lurker that he is, would basically be in hell. Here I’d be…dead to the SDMB world, and he’d be screaming into the monitor, “SilkyThreat’s dead! She can’t answer you people!”
Because he can’t remember his password, and I took mine with me to my grave. And he knows to never post under my name. I’d haunt him for that shit until the day he joined me in the hereafter.