# Would the SDMB be informed of your unfortunate demise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790 "2018-07-30T03:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/21 "2018-07-30T09:36:43Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > I’m approaching 20 years membership; as if I’d like a little thing like death stop me posting. When your name pops up as a DEATH in the ancestry list, I’ll let the denizens here know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/22 "2018-07-30T09:51:54Z")
Nope. My wife knows I post here, but really doesn’t have any interest herself in message boards and it wouldn’t cross her mind. And I’d agree with her! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/23 "2018-07-30T10:18:50Z")
I very much doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/24 "2018-07-30T10:56:21Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > No, but I’m connected to a few of you on Facebook. Maybe someone would figure it out. This would be the case for me also. Several of my MMP compatriots are FB friends with one of my sisters, so the word would get back. I don’t know that it’d occur to my husband or daughter to post a notification here. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/25 "2018-07-30T11:02:06Z")
I might haunt the servers. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/26 "2018-07-30T11:16:37Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Nope. My wife knows I post here, but really doesn’t have any interest herself in message boards and it wouldn’t cross her mind. And I’d agree with her! This. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/27 "2018-07-30T11:45:39Z")
There would be a flickering in the force. People would know, although they may not realize they know. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/28 "2018-07-30T12:27:08Z")
If **JoseB** thinks about it. If he goes and dies without all proper permissions, first I’ll kill him and then I’ll let you guys know. We’re not SOs, just happen to know each other in The World Outside. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/29 "2018-07-30T13:59:03Z")
Yes. My wife is a rare poster but active reader and in case both of us check out at the same time my cousins know how active I am here. Plus a few others (mostly Mumpers) have our real names and phone number so someone would probably call at some point. I’m betting the Dope gets clued in. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/30 "2018-07-30T14:03:40Z")
Don’t know (maybe add it to my will?). I know several folks from the MMP and share as Facebook friends, so they might notice me missing and discover my demise, but not positive. I do promise that if I know that my time is come, my last post to the SDMB will be “Hold my Beer…” ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/31 "2018-07-30T14:11:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/32 "2018-07-30T14:12:11Z")
Yes. I’ve got 3 Doper friends on Facebook, and also my brother knows of the SDMB and is very aware of my action here. If my Facebook friends don’t post it here first, my brother will. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/33 "2018-07-30T14:19:35Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Nope. No one would post the info. My wife and I really don’t think of online acquaintances as “real”, so it wouldn’t occur to us to announce it. _\_ You’re right-- I’m NOT real!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/34 "2018-07-30T14:23:54Z")
I don’t think anyone would notice. I disappeared for 7 years before my recent return and I don’t think there were any, “where the heck is Serenata67?” threads. The mumpers might notice. But no one outside of the dope knows my name, so they wouldn’t notice my obit. And my family doesn’t know all of what I do online, so I don’t think they would inform y’all. Maybe I should put something in my will. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/35 "2018-07-30T14:25:08Z")
My family doesn’t know what the SDMB is, much less that I am a member of it, so there’d be no notification. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/36 "2018-07-30T14:28:35Z")
Probably. The wife is a member here, although she hasn’t posted in a decade or more. She knows to let the Board know of anything. Not that anyone would care, but I like things tidy. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/37 "2018-07-30T14:32:38Z")
I’ve asked my wife to do so. My password is listed in our passwords file, and most of our computers are set to remember it anyway. Every once in a while she threatens to post my death announcement just to mess with me, but so far it’s just been too much trouble. I’ve also asked her to keep my town alive in Simpsons: Tapped Out, but that may be asking too much. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/38 "2018-07-30T14:34:57Z")
Nope. None of my family even know about the SD and my friends’ eyes glaze over when I try to tell them about it. So now one would know to get on board to let you know. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/39 "2018-07-30T14:44:28Z")
I’ve got 4000 prewritten posts that will be released intermittently by My Beloved after I die…or maybe I already died a couple of years back, and this is post #2997 in the series. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/40 "2018-07-30T15:00:43Z")
I’m hoping you’ll all hear about it on the news. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790.md?page=3)