ILP Deaths

to you’re knowledge, have any former members of ILovephilosphy.com ever died?

Data

Portent

Your answer can be found in many threads.

Harbinger,

That post was just as useful as every other post you have ever written.

yromemtnatsisrep,

As far I know nobody who posts on ILP has died. It has been pointed out however, that the very nature of this medium makes it unlikely that we would ever know if a member died.

That is sad, but you are right to wonder. This is a weird medium, no? We feel like we really know people, but then again…

Data

Portent

Indeed, and more “deaths” will occur.

i think as i got older if i continue to be active in this group. Id tell soembody if i ever die…to come on and tell everybody…idk why though.

in my cure for cancer thread, in natural science
there was a man suffering from some sort of head illness and must take pills everyday. His absence of the forum board, has high potential that he may be dead.

And other members, who doesn’t show up anymore are considered to me dead as well. Angst-ridden member

There was a very popular thread in which The UnderGround Man wrote a suicide note. check here for reference

He didn’t respond for a few days and I believe this became the most viewed thread on this forum. In the shortest amount of time as well!

A while back I had a similar thought- how would we know? I proposed that we somehow come up with some type of service that could keep track of us and notify our virtual friends on various forums if something happened to our physical bodies. :slight_smile: So far I haven’t managed to get anything going, though. :confused:

I’m active on many forums. And if I died unexpectedly (um, unexpected by me anyways) I’d like my online community to know I was dead and not just tired of their company. I think my family would probably post the news on the sites where I’m a mod or admin, but they wouldn’t know about all of them. Presumably they could go thru My Favorites but I don’t know if they’d bother.

Well, if I ever disappear for a long time, just Google Smoothini. I’m pretty sure my death will be in the papers.

…I once read that it is good for one’s growth to die at least a few times in ones life. I forget where exactly, though the where or whom seldom matters.

Cheers.

Too bad, that underground man deserves a mention in my greatest member thread for he made reply on my first thread in ILP. " What is the advantage of a virgin and a non-virgin" His reply, I use to think there was something special, but after losing it I felt it was just an illusion.

salutes Undergroundmand. :-({|=

There is a good chance I may be resurrected. After declaring myself dead in the philosophy thread. or it may not. ](*,)

did we ever find out wheter or not he died? underground man that is…

I think he’s still alive. I see him lurking around here from time to time.

i dont believe you…

=D>

I don’t know whether any of you guys are familiar with myspace. Well, there’s a whole website dedicated to the deaths of its users:
http://www.mydeathspace.com/deaths.aspx

It’s pretty morbid, yet oddly fascinating. A myspace profile tends to portray be how someone wants to be viewed by others, and in a sense, could be the most authentic obituary possible.

I used to make it an effort to personally meet people I see in forums. Gradually from IM to email to phone to converging times. It wasn’t some stalker syndrome. I honestly felt responsable for what happens to people, that just talking to them meant a kind of apathy “It’s nice to hear from you. I really don’t care about you.”

You know what I discovered. People are fing depressing. #-o Not to say that so many aren’t interesting, well-deserving people. Just that it’s everything with rape and murder and drugs and god knows what else. I’m actually on a steady reahabilitative process from things I’m certain are mainly internet based.

The moral of the story is perhaps that it is no lie- the internet can be a tool. You WILL make a difference if you really want to. But the things you get absorbed into will ultimately face inevitable tragedies. You’ll be insulted, despised, feared . . . And the simple fact that you had some influence, however small, will make you feel responsable like it or not. (Human emotions, we feel connected by words even when science tells us we’re just as connected and influential by particles).

I still have very particular names, events, dates, phrases- burned in my head all directly from those I met on internet. It’s been years coming to terms with them (with mistakes along the way).

I’ve wound up living with the idea that people who want to deliver a message to me will deliver. People who want to find me will. Trying to seek them out is not likely beneficial to anyone.

Likely the main reason why people drop out of cyberian villages is embarrassement. Consider- all of those times in your personal life you wish you could have just disappeared, wouldn’t you? Also, there’s probably a lot of people you know personally, whom you wouldn’t want to know what you say on internet. Our beliefs are actually quite frightening.

Maybe some day later I will do serious investigations into all sorts of people I’ve met over internet and see how they’ve been doing since then.

That’s actually a really interesting link. I was reading through some of the stories, thinking about how by people reading through them, they are remembered by people who never knew them.

I can’t say for sure that I would want mine on there though. It’s a tough call.

This girl died!!! And this is what MyDeathSpace.com has to say:

I feel my mortality.

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated… I just started school, hence my inactivity.