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One very sad thought

post #1 of 26
9/14/09 at 2:29pm
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It just hit me that if one us died, the forum would never know it. People would just assume the person stopped posting. How many past members could have died already?
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post #2 of 26
9/14/09 at 2:32pm
Sometimes I feel like I should give someone my email password so if I die, I'll have someone designated to follow up on all the email I'll continue to receive.

(This is entirely unrelated to SF - except for Conne, if someone here stopped posting, we would probably ask where they are once or twice and then forget about them. The web is the new great anonymizer, after all.)
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post #3 of 26
9/14/09 at 2:38pm
I just read a story somewhere about business that — for a fee — store logins and passwords and will release them to an appointed "successor" upon your passing. I think they send an email on some pre-determined interval, and if you don't respond they assume you're dead. I'll have to find the story in my history. edit: here's one of the companies: http://legacylocker.com/
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post #4 of 26
9/14/09 at 2:53pm
I know of one person who has it in her will that all her board logins and passwords be provided to a third party, who will be instructed to post about her passing on all of her boards. I found her simpatico so I would be sad to hear of her passing, but it would probably be a very awkward message to have to write.
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post #5 of 26
9/14/09 at 2:58pm
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Originally Posted by Thomas View Post
I know of one person who has it in her will that all her board logins and passwords be provided to a third party, who will be instructed to post about her passing on all of her boards. I found her simpatico so I would be sad to hear of her passing, but it would probably be a very awkward message to have to write.
Especially if it was some sort of furry community board or something. Or a men's clothing forum. Fuck.
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post #6 of 26
9/14/09 at 3:01pm
I've thought about this too, and I think it's wonderful. There would be none of the BS posturing and revisionism that follows death. As you said, people would just think the missing poster had just decided to quit posting, so no one would be compelled to fill the pages with niceties they never would have uttered if no one knew of the death.

I think it would be interesting to compare what was said about the dead person amongst those who knew they were dead to what was said by those who didn't.
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post #7 of 26
9/14/09 at 3:05pm
i'll take this a step further, lets say you live nearby a forumite, and you find out they have passed away, do you go to the wake? would you go to the wake?
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post #8 of 26
9/14/09 at 3:08pm
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i'll take this a step further, lets say you live nearby a forumite, and you find out they have passed away, do you go to the wake? would you go to the wake?

fuck yeah, you go.
bros, and all that.
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post #9 of 26
9/14/09 at 3:15pm
my wife will let you know when i'm dead
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post #10 of 26
9/14/09 at 4:04pm
I've seen a few deaths of forum members posted on car sites.
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post #11 of 26
9/14/09 at 4:08pm
Someone should run some analytics to determine which StyleForum usernames were most likely Michael Jackson and Ted Kennedy.
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post #12 of 26
9/14/09 at 4:22pm
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fuck yeah, you go.
bros, and all that.

The only question would be how drunk I get beforehand.
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post #13 of 26
9/14/09 at 4:23pm
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Especially if it was some sort of furry community board or something. Or a men's clothing forum. Fuck.

How did you know I post to a furry forum? Wait...
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post #14 of 26
9/14/09 at 4:48pm
i read an article about family members of deceased facebook members having difficulty getting profiles removed:

http://consumerist.com/5157835/updat...relatives-page

apparently facebook "memorializes" accounts of deceased members, which in itself is a little weird. not sure if i'd want a shrine on facebook when i die.
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post #15 of 26
9/14/09 at 5:01pm
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i read an article about family members of deceased facebook members having difficulty getting profiles removed:

http://consumerist.com/5157835/updat...relatives-page

apparently facebook "memorializes" accounts of deceased members, which in itself is a little weird. not sure if i'd want a shrine on facebook when i die.

My brother's best friend died of cancer about a year ago. He was young, 25 or 26, and he had a MySpace. After he died his MySpace just sat there. It was really weird/sad, especially because he'd used the blog feature to talk about his illness. The worst were the ones where the doctors thought they'd caught it all - he was in remission, and he was getting married. He died about six months after that post.

I don't know if it's still there. I don't use MySpace anymore, and I don't know if he had a Facebook account.
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