# 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:** 5
**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, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/81 "2018-07-31T14:55:08Z")
> [@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_ So now I’ve read the whole coconut thread and no one actually tried it? I know there was a post about Indian festivals, but that’s hearsay. StG ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/82 "2018-07-31T18:18:12Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > _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. Hmm, here I thought I only made a dent with the (many) people I pissed off, and that I vanished from their thoughts as the emotion faded. Weird to think that I’ve made a more permanent dent than that. (Unless…you don’t happen to be pissed off right now, are you?) Now I find myself wondering if I’ll log in after some vacation or another and find exaggerated rumors of my death waiting for me. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/83 "2018-07-31T18:23:42Z")
Sounds like a game thread: how did the poster before you meet their unfortunate demise? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/84 "2018-07-31T19:06:37Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Depends on where you end up. Heaven for climate, Hell for company. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/85 "2018-07-31T19:25:12Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > 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 Though I wouldn’t know how to ping your sister in this case, since we all met in Nashville I do keep an eye out and notice when it’s been awhile that you haven’t been on here. I think it was a thread of yours (to do w/ dogs?) that got me interested here in the first place. As to the OP question, Tripler and I would know relatively quickly if either of us died, and notifying the Dope would be a gimme I should think. ---
**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, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/86 "2018-07-31T19:48:44Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I hope you mean a lot of developments in treatment, not in the cancer. Hope you beat those odds. Yes, thanks, Doctor said a few years back he’d have said 1-3 years but new developments have come along. I get readings every 6 weeks. They’ve been better each time since I started the treatment in January except for the very last which was marginally worse than the next to last one. Wife informs me there’s no way I’m dying and leaving her alone with Trump – so I have that going for me as well. ---
**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, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/87 "2018-07-31T19:50:33Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > You’ll have to read about it in the Darwin awards like everyone else. Best post of the thread. ---
**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 31, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/88 "2018-07-31T20:14:01Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > Yes, thanks, Doctor said a few years back he’d have said 1-3 years but new developments have come along. I get readings every 6 weeks. They’ve been better each time since I started the treatment in January except for the very last which was marginally worse than the next to last one. > > Wife informs me there’s no way I’m dying and leaving her alone with Trump – so I have that going for me as well. A dear friend of mine passed away about six weeks ago. (I think I mentioned it in some thread or other.) He was really, really sick, and he said he felt like he was abandoning all of us to thump. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/89 "2018-07-31T20:40:57Z")
Maybe, maybe not. I’m actually on facebook with several members, and I’m a member of the SDMB facebook group, but whether or not anyone would take note or care to impart that info is dicey. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/90 "2018-07-31T22:05:07Z")
There is zero chance of the board being notified. And if it were, the thread would look something like this: “Who?” “Wait, what now?” “What’s that? Someone lost their mustard?” “Who did what to the who?” “Was he that French fella? No, I’m thinking about French’s mustard.” "Did you say ‘mustard gassed’ or ‘mustard passed’? “Someone passed muster?” “mmm” mmm ---
**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 31, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/91 "2018-07-31T22:26:24Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > There is zero chance of the board being notified. > > And if it were, the thread would look something like this: > > “Who?” > > “Wait, what now?” > > “What’s that? Someone lost their mustard?” > > “Who did what to the who?” > > “Was he that French fella? No, I’m thinking about French’s mustard.” > > "Did you say ‘mustard gassed’ or ‘mustard passed’? > > “Someone passed muster?” > > “mmm” > > mmm What I would say is, “Oh, he’s the guy the Beatles wrote that song about. I miss himmmm.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/92 "2018-08-01T00:26:55Z")
Well, this thread has depressed the crap out of me, since it nudged me to consider that pretty much no one anywhere would notice or care and now I am running around like someone in a Munch painting. Thanks a lot. I would be happy to be part of a SD tontine-like pledge where we agree to notify the board in the event we don’t hear from someone after X weeks or months. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/93 "2018-08-01T00:38:49Z")
Now that I think about it, I realize that I won’t know I died. So why should you? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/94 "2018-08-01T01:03:36Z")
Perhaps it is best that we all agree not to die. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/95 "2018-08-01T05:39:38Z")
No. I was a long time lurker before I joined in 2012, and really only started posting a year or so ago…no Doper friends, and given my voluminous 0.145 posts per day, I haven’t contributed much this board that would make anyone notice me much less notice my absence. There is another board where I am an admin, am good friends with numerous people there, my wife would tell them, but no reason to say anything here. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/96 "2018-08-01T06:27:29Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Hmm, here I thought I only made a dent with the (many) people I pissed off, and that I vanished from their thoughts as the emotion faded. Weird to think that I’ve made a more permanent dent than that. (Unless…you don’t happen to be pissed off right now, are you?) > > Now I find myself wondering if I’ll log in after some vacation or another and find exaggerated rumors of my death waiting for me. 😛 Nope, not pissed off. But if you return from some bucolic vacation to find all the Dope agog over your supposed demise at the hands of a sultry flamenco dancer named Victoria (actually an undercover underwear inspector for KAOS) who booby-traps the Cone of Silence with lethal quantities of Teen Spirit, you’ll know who started that rumor. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/97 "2018-08-01T06:31:35Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Well, this thread has depressed the crap out of me, since it nudged me to consider that pretty much no one anywhere would notice or care and now I am running around like someone in a Munch painting. Thanks a lot. I would be happy to be part of a SD tontine-like pledge where we agree to notify the board in the event we don’t hear from someone after X weeks or months. I’d join, but with my luck, I’d last longest, and when I died, no one would know. Crud, now _I’m_ depressed. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/98 "2018-08-01T06:42:40Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > > [@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. 😃 Careful, though. If you announce that **Eliahna** has attained a consumation devoutly to be wished with bare bodkin, and then **Eliahna** continues to post from beyond the infinite, your credibility might be damaged. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/99 "2018-08-01T11:29:10Z")
If I had friends or family that would care about that, I wouldn’t be posting so often. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790/100 "2018-08-01T14:33:47Z")
Not a chance. Unless I update my will to instruct the board to be notified. No one I know IRL (except for a few Dopers I’ve met) knows I post here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-sdmb-be-informed-of-your-unfortunate-demise/818790.md?page=6)