# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/61 "2018-07-30T21:43:47Z")
What if I told you that you’re already dead and just don’t know it? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/62 "2018-07-30T23:13:41Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > What if I told you that you’re already dead and just don’t know it? Horse puckey. Gotta go, I have to figure out with those damn red door knobs don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/63 "2018-07-30T23:14:51Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > That’s De-mo-NAY, De-mo-NAY. > > Sorry — Mel Brooks flashback. But I’m much better now. Take two aspirin and call me in the morning. No. Take two martinis and post in the morning. Holy smoke, do I have to do everything around here? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/64 "2018-07-31T00:04:31Z")
No, no one here has ever given any indication that they value what I have to say, so I don’t consider myself a “presence” here. If anyone were to announce my demise, I am quite confident it would get a resounding “who?” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/65 "2018-07-31T00:06:27Z")
But you have a good sig! ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/66 "2018-07-31T00:15:48Z")
Maybe. My wife knows I post here and I share with her a lot of funnies. In fact if I say something of that nature, she’ll often ask Straight Dope? As my computer knows my SD password (and actually I don’t I just realized) she might log on and post such info. And in case anyone’s recording, my doc says 3-5 years on my cancer, but also says there are a lot of developments going on. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/67 "2018-07-31T00:31:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > But you have a good sig! You have a better one!! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/68 "2018-07-31T01:15:58Z")
Prolly not. If I was brought up postmortem, I’d probably be remembered as “one of those guys with the signatures.” That wouldn’t narrow it down though. . . Tripler Often imitated, never duplicated. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/69 "2018-07-31T02:18:57Z")
There’s actually a line in my will for informing social media and such. SDMB is listed. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/70 "2018-07-31T02:45:11Z")
My sister **Brynda** would inform you, presuming she survives me. I also am a member of a tiny, tiny, tiny message board with 26 members, my family has instructions to notify them and the SDMB. Someone else entirely is tasked with clearing my browser history. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/71 "2018-07-31T03:34:49Z")
I don’t know. I’m FB friends with a couple Dopers, but even though I share the occasional thread with my sister, she wouldn’t know how to get on and post about my tragic demise. I’m a '99’er, but not a particularly notable one. StG ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/72 "2018-07-31T03:49:57Z")
No. My wife knows that I talk to “those people”, but she doesn’t pay enough attention to who you are to contact this board. There is a file I keep with the info that the red head might need. User names, passwords, a few other details to help her sort things out after I am gone, but the SDMB is not in that information. And I hope she would be too busy cleaning things up and moving on to care about such things. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/73 "2018-07-31T03:57:33Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > I’d vanish like mist on a hot morning. Nobody knows I post here, nobody here knows who I am (I assume), and I very, very seriously doubt that anybody here would notice I’m gone. Or care, for that matter. _What?!_ You’re on many if not most of the GD threads I read. I would definitely know you’re gone, and I’m not the most observant person. If I notice, so would others. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/74 "2018-07-31T03:59:32Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > Maybe. My wife knows I post here and I share with her a lot of funnies. In fact if I say something of that nature, she’ll often ask Straight Dope? > > As my computer knows my SD password (and actually I don’t I just realized) she might log on and post such info. > > And in case anyone’s recording, my doc says 3-5 years on my cancer, but also says there are a lot of developments going on. I hope you mean a lot of developments in treatment, not in the cancer. Hope you beat those odds. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/75 "2018-07-31T04:02:26Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > I don’t think I’m famous enough on these boards that anyone would notice or care if I stopped posting. (Has anyone ever referred to me in a thread in which I wasn’t participating? If so, I’m not aware of it.) So I haven’t made any arrangements for my passing away to be announced here. > > Of course, now is your chance to post, “But **psychonaut** , we really do know you and remember you, and will [del]miss you[/del] rejoice if you were ever to leave for good. Please, please, please make sure that we are all notified in the event of your untimely death!” But psychonaut, we really do know you and remember you, and will miss you if you were ever to leave for good. Please, please, please make sure that we are all notified in the event of your untimely death! Or maybe just don’t die. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/76 "2018-07-31T13:00:52Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > The World Outside. The what now? And for what it’s worth, I’m familiar with everyone who’s posted in this thread so far. Except for **Serenata67** –never heard of that one until just now. Weird. My brother **Sizzlefry** has an account here and has posted a couple times (he participated in the GQ about tossing a [coconut into a bonfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=602860)), and the only Doper who really gets me ( **Debon Err** ) would probably say something. And then her enormous and gentle heart would be crushed by the deafening apathy toward her announcement, my restive soul world grow truly wroth and would course through the servers of the 'dope like The Dead Men of Dunharrow, visiting upon cyberspace in death the rage held in check while alive. And still, none would notice. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/77 "2018-07-31T13:04:22Z")
No. I live such a lone wolf life, it’s pathological. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/78 "2018-07-31T13:10:41Z")
Nope. Then again, except for my MST3K thread and the Free Game Notification thread, I’ve basically retired from the board, like, a year ago. I only bother to look for new posts once a month or so. So I’m not really sure my demise would cause me to post any less. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/79 "2018-07-31T14:07:43Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > The what now? And for what it’s worth, I’m familiar with everyone who’s posted in this thread so far. Except for **Serenata67** –never heard of that one until just now. Weird. > > My brother **Sizzlefry** has an account here and has posted a couple times (he participated in the GQ about tossing a [coconut into a bonfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=602860)), and the only Doper who really gets me ( **Debon Err** ) would probably say something. And then her enormous and gentle heart would be crushed by the deafening apathy toward her announcement, my restive soul world grow truly wroth and would course through the servers of the 'dope like The Dead Men of Dunharrow, visiting upon cyberspace in death the rage held in check while alive. And still, none would notice. _sigh_ I promise not to be a smart ass and ask, “Who?” ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/80 "2018-07-31T14:13:36Z")
You’ll have to read about it in the Darwin awards like everyone else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790.md?page=5)