what if one of us like died?
all this talk of death has got me wondering, how would we find out one of us died?
like would family members come on here and post it or what?
what would you want us to do if you died?
Damn you habbywall! I looked at this and thought it was by James.
I HOPE my parents would post something breif, but those of us who live near other people, im sure they would say something. Like if I died then my parents would tell Amanda (eventually) and she would post here.
Mike
I was about to say that many of us know each other “in real life.” For example, I am in the New York Unicycle Club. If I died, I’m sure that David Stone would pass along the sad news.
But…
Then I started thinking – how would he find out? I think he has my email address and my cell phone number. He lives in Brooklyn and I live in New Jersey. Maybe a fellow New Jersey club member, say Dave Bagley, would have a better chance of finding out. No, he has my email address and maybe my cell phone number. I won’t be around to charge my cell phone. And my bereaved family probably won’t think to do it (and where did the dead guy put the charger anyway?). Dead cell phone. Nobody checking my email. Especially my email, which is stored in an encrypted partition (by the time they noticed that I assumed room temperature, the partition would have timed-out and dismounted). So, nobody’s going to be answering my phone or getting or sending any of my email. Would they contact everybody in my PDA address book? Sorry, access denied. That’s encrypted too.
You’ve hit upon a larger problem – that of loosely connected friends. Even real-life friends who connect via “personal and unreliable methods” (email and personal cell phone). Married people fare better, if they give out their actual home phone number instead of a personal cell phone number. Then you can call the house and the surviving (or non-hospitalized) spouse can answer the phone.
My network of non-unicyclist friends is older and therefore more solidly and traditionally connected. Some work in the same office and would therefore find out. And they would tell others. News would spread. Also, many of these (older) friends know more about me. They would know how to contact my parents or my brother or they would know my home address.
I doubt many of us give out alternate (emergency) contact info as a matter of course. I certainly don’t. I often give out multiple forms of contact – just in case – but I don’t include a “call this number if you suspect I’m dead.”
So… short answer to your question of how would we find out: “I don’t know.”
And now for the most important part: Knock on Wood (I don’t want to jynx myself)
very well put
Its funny, I was just thinking about that same subject a week ago or so.
Granted, not in specific terms of letting people know on unicyclist.com, but just in general.
I think uni57 hit it directly on the head with all accounts.
I use really strange passwords and no one knows any of them. I would think that Gilby could hack his way into my account with little to no problem to close it or check messages.
Since I am still a relative newbe to the unicycling community, and I really don’t know alot of you personally yet, with the exception of those from TCUC. I figure eventually if I died, my brother and sister-in-law (who started me on unicycling) would let people know, but they might forget that something as small as just a little ‘just so you know…’ post would be good for others.
[I]I doubt many of us give out alternate (emergency) contact info as a matter of course. I certainly don’t. I often give out multiple forms of contact – just in case – but I don’t include a “call this number if you suspect I’m dead.”
So… short answer to your question of how would we find out: “I don’t know.”[/I]
I kinda like that '“call this number if you suspect that I’m dead” phone number. But what would it be? Who would you put it as? Maybe that would be a good thread to start, “whos number would you give as a ‘call this number if you suspect that I’m dead’?”
i don’t know how i would tell you all that i had died. Things like that start bringin up alot more questions for me, ie my non existent will, distribution of assets and stuff like that. To many questions to early in the morning!
-b
And now for the most important part: Knock on Wood (I don’t want to jynx myself) - thanks uni57, copying is the sincerest form of flattery
Well, that thought has cheered me up no end.
I live on my own. My girlfriend lives 270 miles away. There is little contact between her and my parents (and no contact between my parents at all) and I never hear from my brothers or sister from one month to the next unless they want insurance advice. The whole damn’ lot of 'em are techniphobes. I doubt any of them wold know for weeks if I died. So if I die, the first thing you will notice is I stop posting.
Tell you what, I’ll try to die spectacularly, then you can all read it in the papers. 
well i told my mom if i ever die… to come to this site and tell everyone…
Chase
Maybe the pink will turn into black!
im guessing that you have friends on these forums that would know if something went wrong… Im aussing that if i’d die my parents would contact most of the most ppl I talk to on my list… and of course 2 of these are unicyclist that come on these forums…and Im guessing it’s probably the same for everyone…
I’d say some nice words for you…
i would leave it in my will for someone to tell all you guys that i kicked off.
thats what i was thinking about to
Now you MUST let us know if you get that damn commute back and stop posting even though you’re alive.
Is anyone afraid the Christain Unicyclists wil pray for you if you die?
Does anyone have their funeral planned? Does you family know your wishes? I know my dad wanted something VERY SIMPLE, but my sister spent a lot more than he would have wanted on the funeral.
They may not respect your wishes, but do they know.
I know one unicyclist who wants his ashes blown out of a big canon with a 2-thumbed fist on it.
Billy
mikefule- well we will kno if you die and stop posting because your in a place with no sickness, bad weather or other issues to prevent you from riding your heart out…so we all kno where you’ll be and what you’ll be doing there
i’m going to include posting here in my will. i wonder if my family would allow my corpse to be taped to my uni and tossed over niagra falls, then my epitaph could read, “first to ever go over niagra on a uni.” in 100 years when we (unicyclists) take over, i’ll be a god.
naw, someone will have gone of Niagara Falls already ( :
What does it mean to, “like die?” Does being anesthetized approach “like dying?” If I “like die” I hope you will all do nothing. That could end up being really ugly. If I really do die you should dress me up in silly clothes and prop me up by a road sign. Or put me in a high school classroom where I’d fit in better.
When you die you start to smell really, really bad and people find out eventually. It would be very inconvenient for my wife. No one would post here if I died. The SARS would stealthily slip over to my house and try to steal my unicycles. Little do they know that Buster would shred them if they tried.
And how would that be different from any other day?
For Harper, silly clothes might mean a business suit…
Harper? Suit?
please
Well, if Matt or I died, I’m sure the other one would post with some lovely words…but besides that…I would notice if some people stopped posting (pretty much just Dave, Mikael, Forrest, Habbywall, MIkefule, and a few others), but I wouldn’t have thought hey had died