Do you have a back-up plan?

I haven’t thought about it – I don’t think my partner would come to fluther just to make the announcement but Augustlan would prob find out about it from facebook

Well, if you haven’t seen any new posts in more than a week from me, that probably means my time is up.
Or I got tired from this site

My daughters know to make an announcement here. I really hate it when people drop off the face of the Earth, and wouldn’t want to do that to everyone.

I have been thinking that if I died here in my living room, today, no one would know for at least a week, more likely two, maybe more. (although my Nephew and BIL drive by my house several times a day) At some point my friends on facebook would know as my niece would update them. Otherwise, I am dust in the wind…(like Donnie in The Big Lebowski)

No one would know, no one would care

@hug_of_war shut up, I would care!

If I decided to quit, I would definitely let many friends know by PM.

If I died? My son is a friend of Our Founders, so presumably they would be informed. (Kinda hope that wouldn’t be the first thing my son would do!)

one of my good friends (who’s a lawyer) has an envelope with all the relevant stuff, a copy of my life insurance policy, all my passwords, instructions on what to do with my belongings and an open letter to be read at my funeral and other letters to individual people, I update the envelope once a year, you never know…

Yup. I have instructions for my sister to let people know.

I keep thinking there should be some sort of website service that would take care of this sort of thing for you. You have to log in to the site once a week (month, day, year, whatever). If you don’t, the assumption is that you’ve died since the last time you logged in. That triggers a series of automated postings and emails to your friends and family (online and off) informing them.

Anyone know if there is such a thing?

Adreamofautumn is the one who told me about fluther in the first place. We were dating at the time, and still keep in touch regularly. She’s been gone from Fluther for a while (although I keep tellin’ her to come back!) but I think she’d make a return to say I was dead if I died…

I have another real life friend on Fluther who would probably think to let y’all know, too, she’s a recent joiner (hi, sliceswiththings!). If they both forgot, well… I guess you’d all be left in the dark. :(

@MrItty I think I read that there is but I don’t know the URL.

@MrItty :: I do think something like that is real. I forgot the URL.

I’m a total dick. If I ran the service I would mass post that everyone died.

The thing is, I had/have a good friend on Askville who was very sick. We’d mail back & forth. The last time he wrote was in March. I’ve written him 3 times & he hasn’t responded. That’s not like him. He’d write if he could. It makes me sad to not know what’s happened.

I just did a search for “internet death notification” and then “internet death notification registry” and got many results but they weren’t really pertinent. If I can think of anything else and get good results, I’ll post it.

I never really thought of it before.

@augustlan knows how to reach me faster than my parents already. ~I kinda hope she would let folks know. ;)

Nah. If I vanish I’ve either gotten tired of Fluther or have gotten very ill or died. If it’s either of the last two there’s a small handful of people on here who would know through Facebook. Other than that, nope.

@hug_of_war Don’t say that. It’s all of us here that make this site what it is. :-)

Last summer I was in the hospital for chest pains. I don’t log into fluther on my iPod Touch since I always manage to leave it around the house. I made a new account to tell allie that I was OK. I was getting a EKG at the time. PnL deleted my question.

I think god has e-mail, facebook and twitter :-)

I doubt anyone on Fluther would care if I vanished completely. If anyone did, and indeed noticed, they probably thought I saw the light and left this god-forsaken site!

I’m pretty sure if I get taken out, you’re going to hear about it on the news. Because as long as I am physically able, dying or not, I’m going to make it newsworthy.

~Oh great. Now every time there is a newsworthy and unusual death we will all be waiting for @Haroot to post again…~

@Ame_Evil I would care. :(

Here’s the plan:
We get the warhead, and we hold the world ransom for….. ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Can I send SMS from my grabe? I will let you know how is it down there. This is what I would do if god will not let me use is e-mail, facebook or twitter ;-)

@ragingloli What about the sharks with laser beams?
Perhaps we could train them to notify us when users are no longer around…

@Dog I’m talking BIG big.

“Man stabbed by mugger explodes into firework show.”

It’s all about showmanship.

And I’ll be sure my last words are, “I’M HAROOT” or something. Just for you ;)

My ex-SO has an account on here, but hasn’t been on I assume because I joined. I’d hope he would say something.

Daloon would know if anyone said anything on Facebook.
I guess I gotta come up with a plan.

Most of my peeps are on FB. That’s another place my daughter would post it on me.

I don’t think there’s anyone on here that I actually know, so I guess I would just quietly vanish into cyberspace…

There are services already available for this, such as this one. Frankly, I’m not sure of any simple way to let people know, and not to sound emo, but how much would an online community actually “care” about my absence? This brings up an alternate but equally important issue, which is how much value does one place on online “friendships” versus those in real life? How are they the same, how are they different?

Great question, @jbfletcherfan!

By the time I die, I imagine fluther will be long gone. Perhaps on Facebook people would find out. If I died this instant, there would be a silence from me. Eventually, after I don’t know how long, someone might call to see what was going on. Then again, maybe they wouldn’t. There’s always the chance that I’m alive and have abandoned fluther for other reasons. In that case, calling could be problematic. But I doubt that I would leave with no warning of my own volition.

However, there is no one in my real life who knows who I am on fluther (although I’m beginning to wonder if someone who knows me out there has caught on). Certainly, no one knows my passwords. There are precious few people who even know that I have a presence here. So if I involuntarily and suddenly disappeared, it is possible that you might never find out why.

It would be nice to have a service where we could prepare emails or lists of places to place notices. The service could only be released upon certification of the death of its owner.

@shilolo That’s the kind of site I had read about. Good on ya for finding it!

Also, want to say, @shilolo, that some of us have come to care a great deal for other people on here and definitely would want to know if they were gone.

@janbb You are SO right. There’s several on this site that I care very deeply for. It would be a personal loss to me if I lost any of these people. It goes beyond fluther. Screw fluther. These people are personal friends of mine now & they are a part of my life. I would miss them terribly & grieve for them just like a RL friend. And I would hope that I’d be missed as well.

@jbfletcherfan Squirrel and penguin hug! (( ))

Nope. If I disappear I’m either dead or in a major depression. The depression I’ll probably come back from, otherwise…

@janbb ditto. . :D

I’m not sure anyone who notice I was missing :( But if anything did happen, I’m betting that my fiancé would get on Fluther and post about it.

@tinyfaery You need to tell your wife to post here if you, um… expire!

I’m pretty sure no one would notice or care much. Yes, some people have very close relationships on this site. I have some wonderful internet relationships from other places online and many have developed into “real” friendships; I just haven’t developed any here. Yet?

@Supacase I would miss you.

I would rather no one know.

One of two things would happen that might let people know of my untimely demise… Firstly the heavens would open up with a sound comparable to that of a million simultaneous thunder strikes and huge wail would fall from the heavens (not because I’m dead but because they’d be stuck with me now…). Or the second posibility, where everyone would have a sense og extreme boredom for about 5 seconds and realize form said boredom… “I haven’t read anything from that asshole in a while… wonder if he’s dead”.

Either/or…

Wow, I have online contacts but i dont think any would find out… One of my friends once left just randomly and i fear she might be dead…but i can never tell…

I would hope that my SO would log on and make a post. Once he got thru my planner, he’d find all the passwords. But since I have friends here, Facebook and a couple of other places, I would assume word would get around. If not, I don’t believe that other than a few friends, anyone would really notice. I tend to lurk more than post. Although @jbfletcherfan would probably tell you since we’re friends other places also.

I would hope, however, someone would care, and when that happens, have a shot of Red Stag in my honor!

I sure would care, Skip. You know that! Let’s just hope we’re both around for a long time yet to haunt these sites. :-)

I have a secret keeper for my email password, and she knows to send out an email to everyone in the event that I pass.
I also have a niece here on Fluther, though she hasn’t been on in a while.

I’m the only person I know who uses Fluther. I’m thinking of getting some of my friends or family to come on here just because I think they would like it, but I have some answers on here that I feel a little secretive about. So until then, nobody would be able to let Fluther know that I had died. But if I was dead, I probably wouldn’t be worrying about the internets that much!

Update: I spoke with my fiancé tonight about what to do if I suddenly expired…He now knows where to find my fluther info and password to login and let my fellow fluther friends in on the bad news. I feel much better now.

@augustlan Aww, thanks! :-)

no I don’t have a back up plan… made me realise exactly how little people (my family I don’t have close friends here) know about me :-( I think I’ll have to sort something out… I’d trust @augustlan (and others) to contact everybody…maybe she would give me her email address and then I can tell a family member to email everyone in my address book.

@lynneblundell Consider it done! Check your PMs.

thank you xxxxxxxxxx you are a bright and very beautiful star xxx

I dont have a back up plan…...........dont see the need, Always been a bit of a loner and I doubt theres any internet peeps who’d even notice I wasnt around.

@scotsbloke I would now…

I would know, too!!!

@jbfletcherfan
@lynneblundell
Thank You

my pleasure… if you want a back up plan PM me x