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What if... I was hit by a bus?


Someone was telling me about a group he belonged to where the owner disappeared for a few months but the group continued on regardless.

Some time later, like four months, a message appeared by the owner which was obviously written by a family member saying that the person had died. Next day the group was gone.

The someone I was talking to approached me (because I own a group like the one deleted) and asked me "What if...?" what would happen to the group (and my message board)? Was I prepared?

I know that's quite morbid and all but it got me wondering. If I suddenly disappeared what would people do? How would they find out what was happening? Would they even notice (I know some would)?

In reverse, what if one of you stopped visiting the boards? We'd assume you got sick of it but what if something bad had happened? We'd never know.

My apologies. I didn't mean for this post to be dark and morbid. In my typing, I seemed to have lost what I was trying to say...



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Morbid or not, this IS a real possibility, Scribe. It could happen to anyone. So, thanx for reminding me that I have to add one more paragraph to the note which I have left for my wife to find, should something like that happen to me:

The link to my board. My screen handle. My password. And a request for her to post a quick note about what happened and ask for help in the RSF concerning the transferring of the board's ownership to the board's moderators.

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I've actually wondered the same thing, Scribe. In my case, people know how to get in touch with my husband, my daughter has a runboard account; I think word would get around. My husband already has my username and password, but I doubt it would occur to him to say anything here. It would occur to my daughter, though. emoticon

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The most important point would be to hand over ownership - that's necessary if a board is meant to continue.

It's a good thought, Alpha, and very throrough. And not morbid at all, Scribes. emoticon

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My partner knows how to contact Firle and I believe he'd look to her for instructions on what to do to transfer ownership of the board.

If the terrible thing happened to both of us though, my kids wouldn't give my online activities a thought. Not for a second! So no amount of emailing would produce a response. I would just vanish into nothingness... and the board?? <shrugs>

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Awww, Scribe. I don't even like thinking about such things. emoticon

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addi30 wrote:

I've actually wondered the same thing, Scribe. In my case, people know how to get in touch with my husband, my daughter has a runboard account; I think word would get around. My husband already has my username and password, but I doubt it would occur to him to say anything here. It would occur to my daughter, though. emoticon



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lol - yes that would be her. Welcome to the board, kiddo emoticon

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lol, hello Addi's daughter. Sorry, I shouldn't say that because you are a person in your own right. Hello Sofx.

Addi, I don't like thinking about those things either. Enough said already.

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It's a valid question, Scribe and one I've considered before.

From my point of view, if I stopped posting on Runboard, I'd definitely let someone else from Runboard know. If I just stopped posting with no word to any other Runboard member, then I wasn't watching for buses when I tried to cross the road...









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That is one of the strange things about this virtual world - mostly we know very little about who we're talking to. Often not their real name, often not even the country they're from, and rarely any real time contact details. I've known lots of people who just suddenly vanished. Sometimes they reappear again later, sometimes they don't. I read somewhere that the most common cause is PC failure. By the time a person gets back up and running again, things have moved on and they never return to old haunts, preferring to start afresh.

I guess that adds to the often ethereal and mysterious nature of the internet. People can be whatever they want to be out here, reinvent themselves, be invisible, be beautiful, have totally different personalities to those they have in the real world etc. It brings out the very best and worst in many people.

I've had web friends who have died. In most cases, relatives knew they had that online contacts and let us know what had happened, but in one case I only found out when I read an (old) online news report of how someone had been killed in a road traffic accident. He'd been the owner of a board of which I'd been a member for years, and who had inexplicably stopped posting one day.

I have also known more than one attention seeker who has sought to fake their own death or serious injury, presumably to discover the kind of reaction they'd get. It's strange world out here, populated by all manner of personalities.
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That's very thoughtful, Funkdooby... I guess it calls for a separate topic of its own in the Computer and the Internet forum...

Welcome aboard, Sofx... emoticon (official provider of addi's avatars)... emoticon

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beh, i go, i go.

Hi Sofx.

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*bows* thank you thank you emoticon i feel so warm and fuzzy now!
*grins at Alpha* hehe emoticon

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if you got hit by a bus it would hurt

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mathewmonty23 wrote:
...it would hurt

The bus???...

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no it would hurt you

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some people on other boards have my mobile number - sometimes i think im too trusting - but i know if anything bad happend to me someone would call like everyone on my mobile phone list and theyd find out then they would spread the word etc. im prety lucky i guess - but im not sure many people at school would miss me

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Ditto. And even if they did, who would care long enough to be affected (not about you, GC!)? I seen the effect deaths have on the people at my school: crying, hugging, reminiscing for an hour and a half, but by third period, all has been forgotten.

Maybe I should just stick my live journal URL in my sig; that way, if I'm gone for several weeks, and my latest entry seems particularly morbid, assume I'm not coming back.

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woooooaaaaahhhhh what a thread this is.

It would be nice to have everyone (internet or the real world) care about you but its not going to happen

and to this.....

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 "Maybe I should just stick my live journal URL in my sig; that way, if I'm gone for several weeks, and my latest entry seems particularly morbid, assume I'm not coming back."

I just wonder that if your fed up with it all why would you want people to know? what is it about people knowing your gone that makes you want them to know?



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I always saw it as a courtesy. I mean, I don't hate any of YOU, except maybe GC (just kidding! It's more like envy, really), and personally I'd like to know what happened to so-and-so if they stopped coming. It just seems more polite to me. Would you rather think that the person who "left" just hated your guts and didn't think enough of you to let you know?

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personally that would be the last thing I would be thinking if someone all of a sudden stopped posting with no reason or warning is that it was because they hated my guts. Also I think people feel more at home in some communities than others and may take the "ahh they wont miss me anyway" attitude to it.

a simple fact of life is that if you do come to harm sometimes not all the people you would like to find out will.

just like if you never heard from me again would you wonder if I was ok or just assume I got bored and moved on?

most people do not plan their own deaths so a courtesy warning is not an option.


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Hm...well if I die a friend of mine has a runboard account so maybe he'd think to post some thing, maybe I better add this to the list of things I want him to do when I die(he has to were a white or a lime green suit to my funeral), but I doubt I'll die anytime soon but it's always good to be prepared.

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