More relevant question: if an ILPite died, would anyone care ?
Well…I would care, but I don’t know if I would cry.
Interesting question nonetheless.
Actually I told a friend to post a note if I should “kick the bucket”
I showed him the site and told him my
ILP name. Hopes he carries out this last charge.
He is also in charge of my final party. The IRISH wake.
No one walks out sober and no one cries.
Just tell lies about how I was a decent person and
meant something in the world.
Kropotkin
I’d care. I’d care a lot if some posters died. No point naming names. I can think of at least 20 off the top of my head and I imagine that most of them know who they are.
edit - bonus points to the first person to identify the film that contains the line:
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?
“…leave the dead to bury their dead” - Jesus
That is one my my favorite mysterious Jesus quotes.
Its odd to exist in this space without bodies. One the question that gets me is if we turn this around on its head: how do we know if anyone else who posts here is actually alive? Everyone else could be a simulation, or the creation of a comittee of people, or even the ghost of someone trapped in the machine.
Im much more concerned with the apparent death of everyone’s personality on ILP.
oh i know, i know !..
but i cheated 
Hey guys! i’m not dead! i was dead to the internet for about a month though… i accedentally watered down my other computer…
holy shoot! yes! last i heard he said he wasnt gunnu be online much, cuz he didnt have much time anymore. no way to know if he exited this evil hell world. i tried to be his friend but in reality,i had so many burdons of my own, i could’nt really write regularly. dont even know if it would have mattered… Did he post at ilp since i dissapeard!?
and also,how did PG get back in here??? i heard how she got banned and i still remeber that.
wonder if anyone talked about me while i was gone… or was it out of sight,out of mind?
Phaedrus,
I really liked your post in that it encapsulated, and articulated better than I could have, a question that occurred to me some time back. And it, the question not your post, still bothers me. Now Detrop’s solution, while unwieldly, is attractive - I just wouldn’t want to be the one assigned to assuring that every one of the several thousand registered ILP posters had performed his or her mensual duty.
So, personally, I think the best solution would be to require that any present poster who sees his or her death as imminent bequeath in his or her will a nominal sum to ILP with the stipulation that the bequest be accompanied by an announcement of the decedent’s demise to be posted as a sticky in the Rant House. And for those who do not see their death as imminent, a trust should be set up, also for a nominal sum, that requires the trustee to transfer the nominal sum, along with a sticky in the Rant House, upon the poster’s death to ILP.
My way…everyone wins.
That would work, so far as it goes. But what of all the other sites one frequent? There has to be some way to trigger a “bulk notification” of some type.
Not to sound morbid.