We’ve lost two valued members of the SDMB recently, and their families have been kind enough to inform us of their passing. I’m wondering how many Dopers have made such arrangements or would do so if the situation warranted.
I haven’t and wouldn’t because–and I say this as a matter of fact and with zero self-pity–few would notice my absence. I haven’t been around as long as most, and frankly, there’s nothing particularly notable about me. But there are many Dopers I’d miss if they stopped posting, so I hope I’m the exception.
I think very few would notice my absence. My husband and a couple of friends know that I post here, but I don’t think they would think to notify the board.
There’s no one who would notify. I don’t have a significant other, siblings, or children. None of my friends posts here, and I don’t personally know any Dopers. Not on Facebook. I guess I’ll just have to come back from the dead and do it myself.
Same here, except that I am on Facebook but I haven’t “liked” the Dope. Maybe whoever cleaned out my apartment would find my list of passwords, go to those websites, and inform them of my death.
There are several posters who just stopped posting all of a sudden, and I’m not the only person who has wondered if this is what happened to them. OTOH, there are others who for whatever reason just don’t post here, or at another favorite website, any more, for any number of reasons. I’ve done that myself.
A very small possibility that somebody would figure it out. It would likely be via Twitter, though. So if anyone here follows me there too, and I think a couple do, they would potentially relay the info here.
But most likely, as others have said, nobody close to me would know to tell you guys, and if you even noticed my absence, it would remain mysterious.
Unless it was in the news when I finally snap and die via “suicide by cop”.
I see Active Members: 3,449 (is this a lot lower than it used to be?)
We have had some threads showing the age distribution of Straight Dope members. If anyone here understands basic probability/statistics perhaps they could do the numbers and find the predicted number of Straight Dope deaths per year. For example if it is 1% overall then that would be 34 deaths per year. And what: are there 4 to 5 deaths per year listed in the In Memorium thread?
Y’all gonna know when I die. I am gonna build me a Bot-da-wrek, and keep posting about the Lil’wrekker and my Siamese cats and the stoooopid shit that happens to me until the end of time. Cause I am just evil that way;)
I know a couple of local Dopers (Cat Whisperer and Dread Pirate Jimbo), and I’d hope that they’d step in and let the SDMB know. Maybe they could also let my sister know–Sis is my only living relative, but we don’t stay in touch very much.
It’s the number of accounts that we logged in over the last 60 days. It could be a lurker, a spammer, someone who made one post and left or a regular like yourself.
