[Kanese S's]

For all we know, the Abyss transfer may have already happened. It could actually be more a title than an actual name. Like the Dread Pirate Roberts.


Anyway, I've actually been thinking of this recently. I'm not sure how to go about leaving instructions for my online communities to be informed of my death, whenever that is. Just a word document with the title "In the event of my death" on my desktop or something? I mean, it's not urgent, hopefully (I could get hit by a bus tomorrow, but hopefully that won't happen, as I'd prefer living a good long while), but still, I'll die eventually, and I am close to some people I know mainly online.

[Satan]

This have got me thinking a little bit lately. You know how whenever someone dies they become the bestest and shiniest of person throughout all of humanity on facebook? I don't want that. Let's face it, I'm average at the best of times and much worse the rest of it. If I die, I would like people to be honest about my life. "Brynjar wasn't quite as bad as Hitler. Let us all be thankful that he was of the lazy sort."

[Aptorian]

You've got an avatar of a lady with dolphins for tits and your username is Satan. Don't worry Bryn, I'll always remember you as the man who aspired to become a male prostitute.

This post has been edited by Crustaceous Apt: 18 November 2013 - 12:43 PM

[Aptorian]

Satan, on 08 November 2013 - 01:23 PM, said:

I do. It's massive. Deleting it would be a sin against man.

I have an oral agreement with all my buddies than in the event of one of us dying we find and neutralise any signs of smut on each others computers. I also know where one of my friends keep a stash of old nudy mags in his house in the event that he dies.

This post has been edited by Crustaceous Apt: 18 November 2013 - 12:50 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

I think I'd like a short note just to tell people I had shuffled off this mortal coil. Unfortunately my other half despises social networking so would probably tell me to get stuffed. I expect it would get out on Facebook which means my shared Facebook / Malazan acquaintances would pass on word.

It's such an odd thing when someone dies who you are connected to online. A friend of mine died early this year and I'm still Facebook friends with her. In fact the last contact I had with her before she died was a funny comment she made on one of my updates. I don't want to de-friend her as I like looking back at pictures and stuff but I am curious to ask her husband what he plans to do. I can't decide if I'd like to be deleted off the face of the internet or have stuff left for posterity - it would be sad if people slowly de-connected from you as years pass leaving you as a pointless digital island. I'm hoping that I will die of old age a long time from now and the online landscape will have changed enough that it becomes a different question!

Incidentally when my friend did die I was very pleased with my circle of friends that there weren't a load of sappy Facebook comments. A few weeks after the event her husband posted a really nice statement and a link to a Cancer Research charity page and that was that. I hate the over the top shit canonizing the deceased or people just commenting "RIP". If I'm dead and you not only can't be bothered to think up something more meaningful than RIP but also can't summon up the interest to not use a fucking abbreviation......!! If you give a shit then send a message to my loved ones and or show up at my funeral, otherwise keep your crappy platitudes to yourself - I have had this conversation with the other half and told him to send suitable 4-letter worded rants back at anyone who even thinks of sending an RIP in my direction.

[Studious Lock]

When I die the whole world will know. This terrible event will be met with global mourning and depression. I say sorry in advance to you poor souls that outlive me.

Seriously though, a few of you have me on facebook so if you could let the people on here know have I've snuffed it, that would be great

This post has been edited by Studious Lock: 18 November 2013 - 03:23 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

Mezla PigDog, on 18 November 2013 - 01:21 PM, said:

I think I'd like a short note just to tell people I had shuffled off this mortal coil. Unfortunately my other half despises social networking so would probably tell me to get stuffed. I expect it would get out on Facebook which means my shared Facebook / Malazan acquaintances would pass on word.

It's such an odd thing when someone dies who you are connected to online. A friend of mine died early this year and I'm still Facebook friends with her. In fact the last contact I had with her before she died was a funny comment she made on one of my updates. I don't want to de-friend her as I like looking back at pictures and stuff but I am curious to ask her husband what he plans to do. I can't decide if I'd like to be deleted off the face of the internet or have stuff left for posterity - it would be sad if people slowly de-connected from you as years pass leaving you as a pointless digital island. I'm hoping that I will die of old age a long time from now and the online landscape will have changed enough that it becomes a different question!

Incidentally when my friend did die I was very pleased with my circle of friends that there weren't a load of sappy Facebook comments. A few weeks after the event her husband posted a really nice statement and a link to a Cancer Research charity page and that was that. I hate the over the top shit canonizing the deceased or people just commenting "RIP". If I'm dead and you not only can't be bothered to think up something more meaningful than RIP but also can't summon up the interest to not use a fucking abbreviation......!! If you give a shit then send a message to my loved ones and or show up at my funeral, otherwise keep your crappy platitudes to yourself - I have had this conversation with the other half and told him to send suitable 4-letter worded rants back at anyone who even thinks of sending an RIP in my direction.

If I find out you die via Facebook I am totally writing "RIP MPD LOL" on your wall...

[Gust Hubb]

amphibian, on 07 November 2013 - 10:34 PM, said:

I would rather my porn be displayed at a hypothetical funeral than the goose shit I wrote as a teenager on the Dragonmount forums way back before I found this place. Thank the gods that place lost most of its archives over the years.

Sounds like a challenge to me

[Kanese S's]

Gust Hub, on 19 November 2013 - 01:31 AM, said:

amphibian, on 07 November 2013 - 10:34 PM, said:

I would rather my porn be displayed at a hypothetical funeral than the goose shit I wrote as a teenager on the Dragonmount forums way back before I found this place. Thank the gods that place lost most of its archives over the years.

Sounds like a challenge to me

Actually, I think in the event of my death, I want Gust to watch my porn. KL or someone should make him do it. It will at least give me an amusing thought as I pass on, perhaps even causing me to die laughing.

[Gust Hubb]

Kanese S, on 19 November 2013 - 05:40 AM, said:

Gust Hub, on 19 November 2013 - 01:31 AM, said:

amphibian, on 07 November 2013 - 10:34 PM, said:

I would rather my porn be displayed at a hypothetical funeral than the goose shit I wrote as a teenager on the Dragonmount forums way back before I found this place. Thank the gods that place lost most of its archives over the years.

Sounds like a challenge to me

Actually, I think in the event of my death, I want Gust to watch my porn. KL or someone should make him do it. It will at least give me an amusing thought as I pass on, perhaps even causing me to die laughing.

::shudder::

[Gnaw]

I added a codicil to my will a couple of years ago with username/passwords to important sites that needed account closing. All the ones I know that have my financial info.

I think I could add this one to the list. Along with a provision that my nephew can't inherit until Gnaw has 10000 rep. That way at least the admin who did that for him would know of my passing..

[Kanese S's]

Gust Hub, on 19 November 2013 - 01:15 PM, said:

Kanese S, on 19 November 2013 - 05:40 AM, said:

Gust Hub, on 19 November 2013 - 01:31 AM, said:

amphibian, on 07 November 2013 - 10:34 PM, said:

I would rather my porn be displayed at a hypothetical funeral than the goose shit I wrote as a teenager on the Dragonmount forums way back before I found this place. Thank the gods that place lost most of its archives over the years.

Sounds like a challenge to me

Actually, I think in the event of my death, I want Gust to watch my porn. KL or someone should make him do it. It will at least give me an amusing thought as I pass on, perhaps even causing me to die laughing.

::shudder::

[worry]

Illy hasn't posted since March!

[Loki]

I have a pre-made (and completely fabricated) write-up of my spectacular death saved to my pc for just this.

It's pretty wordy, there's even a couple of tavern songs about my heroic deeds, but it can basically be summed up in three words: "I blame Brood."

[LinearPhilosopher]

will i get a digital commenoration of me on the site?

If not ill pass

i usally dont post much outside of the anime topic anyways

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

I have so few posts here that no one would notice if I went missing, or care if they did notice.I already have gone missing here. I signed up in 2009, post 70 or 80 odd times and then left for 7 years. I do have some 10s of thousands of posts at a couple of other forums and I would like those folks to know that I up and croaked. Still, I have nothing set up in the event though.

I do know of a few instances where people have pretended to have died. I don't quite get that, but it takes all kinds, I guess.

I did have a very good internet friend who actually did die, no sh*t. She had been sick for a very long time but revealed her illness to no one. She didn't want people to start treating her differently just because she was dying. After she went, her sister contacted the admins and so was able to forward a message to us from the deceased. She explained her illness and why she kept it from us and told us to keep on laughing and think of her when we did. After the fact, we looked at some of the pics of herself that she posted over the years and in retrospect we could see that she was physically deteriorating. How did we not see that at the time? Very sad, but i'm glad she made arrangements to let us know.

[Gorefest]

Kruppe of Darujhistan, on 29 September 2016 - 07:01 PM, said:

After the fact, we looked at some of the pics of herself that she posted over the years and in retrospect we could see that she was physically deteriorating. How did we not see that at the time?

Not meaning to sound blunt, but surely in retrospect everyone is physically deteriorating over the years? Unless you have a self portrait in the attic it is pretty unavoidable as far as I am aware.

[worry]

That's not so much blunt as a non sequitur. He's not saying she aged steadily, he's saying she sickened and died.

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Yeah, she was a young woman in her mid-twenties. She progressively became more wan and frail looking, and much faster than through simple aging, which in a person of her few years would go practically unnoticed, ordinarily.

Here's a link to her farewell post:
Chime-tastic Concluding Chorus

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

When I die, my accounts will be seamlessly handed over to an AI running the most recent version of my brain-scan from my yearly backup.