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Dan Bobrowski 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243 |
 Topic: Morbid QuestionPosted: May 06 2005 at 21:52 |
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My wife asked me an interesting question yesterday. She asked, "How would I let your Prog-Nerd friends know if you die?" I was at once both shocked and touched. Interesting question on a few levels... First, the tought of my mortality. Second, I talk about you guys enough to make her appreciate my fondness for this forum and the friends I've made. Curious... How many days would it take for someone to become curious? A few peeps have my address, but would one really take the time to write and ask, "where are you?" One should never drink beer and post. I seem to get maudlin and sappy, but more thought went into this thread then the Troll Thread.
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tuxon
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 22:08 |
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I wouldn't want to know.
As long as people consider you to be alive, your still alive in their thoughts. By not letting people know your dead, you can live forever  |
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gdub411
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Joined: August 24 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3484 |
Posted: May 06 2005 at 22:16 |
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A few peeps have my address, but would one really take the time to write and ask, "where are you?"
I would write if you were gone for a while. |
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threefates
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Joined: June 30 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4215 |
Posted: May 06 2005 at 22:25 |
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It is indeed a good question, because a couple of years ago, I met someone online in a Pink Floyd forum I had probably met before because we had so many friends and events in common. He even worked a couple of times for ELP. He was now a sound engineer for a venue in Florida.. and all of a sudden he got a bad cold.. and then pneumonia and was in the hospital. I got a couple of emails from him when he came out of the hospital, one saying he was coming up to visit after Christmas.. I never heard from him again. I kept sending emails to him.. nothing.. I had no phone number, no address and not a clue as to what company he worked for. Finally one of the moderators on the board found a business email.. and we started flooding them with messages. Someone finally responded that he had died of a heart attack just before Christmas. I am so mad at myself for not pushing him a little harder for info. And I truly miss his friendship. |
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THIS IS ELP
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Peter
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 23:03 |
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I wouldn't write -- I'd rideout there just to make good and sure you were actually dead, ol' boy! Can't have you suffering like that....
Bwaaaaaaa! Change the topic, Down-boy!
(ol' pal! Edited by Peter |
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Hierophant
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Posted: May 07 2005 at 02:19 |
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James Lee
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Posted: May 07 2005 at 13:22 |
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I died about six months ago, and they couldn't pry my fingers away from the keyboard! BOO! |
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: May 07 2005 at 13:34 |
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Reed Lover
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Posted: May 07 2005 at 14:20 |
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Well we do not/can not know the true personal circumstances of any forum member.Some posts hint that all is not necessarilly well behind the cheery facades. Sometimes it can be sooooooo difficult to open up..... |
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diddy
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Joined: March 02 2004 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1117 |
Posted: May 07 2005 at 15:46 |
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Maybe she's making some arrangements, be careful, watch out in the near future, especially when she's handling with knives
Seriously;
I think you can hardly find any reasons for someone not posting anymore unless you have more information than the usual nickname and email...but if you have more informations like an adress or phone number, you would surely use these information after some time...
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear...
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Posted: May 07 2005 at 15:54 |
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If I die, I have already arranged that my brother take all my records, CDs, cassettes, books, and movies and do what he will with them. He would also be in charge of my money and stocks. Also, he would be the person to let Maani or M@x know that I have died. Not likely; but you can never be too careful.
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goose
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Posted: May 07 2005 at 16:39 |
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No one on here'd ever know.
edit: for me, that is. Edited by goose |
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maani
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 19:14 |
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I've lived and died so many times now, I'm not sure which is which...
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Prog_Bassist
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Posted: May 09 2005 at 10:54 |
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I've actually thought of htis before too, it was about a year ago when my father died, I began questioning mortality and really realizing that anyone could die at any time, for any reason. And I was like, just questioning life, and wondered how the people I knew on the internet would find out that I died if something happened to me, I know it sounds nerdy, but still. |
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: May 09 2005 at 12:08 |
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Hahhahaha.
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Garion81
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Posted: May 09 2005 at 12:36 |
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Good topic Danbo. I know on another forum a member recently died and a friend was kind enough to post about it for the family. I think you could leave a few email addresses that she could repsond to or tell her to Email M@X.
Prog-Nerds? Oh I guess we are aren't we.
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
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Joren
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Posted: May 09 2005 at 18:21 |
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how the use of smileys can be funny as well! |
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 10 2005 at 03:44 |
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This is one of those modern day scenarios, which could not have happened just a few years ago.
Were it not for the internet, and forums such as these, very few of us would know of each other's existence - we'd walk past each other in the street without a second glance, maybe doing a quick double take if one of us were wearing a band t-shirt, then thinking, "oh well, I'm not the only balding old fart who still likes Yes". So many e-friendships have sprung up due to these forums, it does beg the question (which I raised on a similar topic recently), that should one of us reach the clearing at the end of the path, would our spouses care that we are members of a discussion forum (would some of them even know?), and if so, would they think to post an entry informing the other members (I am fairly unique on this forum at least, in that my wife is actually a new member)? Personally, I'd want to know, and yes I'd definitely send PM's, e-mails and letters until I knew why one of my friends on here was absent without asking my permission first. DANBO!! - BEHIND YOU!! |
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Dan Bobrowski
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243 |
Posted: May 10 2005 at 10:21 |
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Whew! Thanks Jim.... I'm getting afraid.... very afraid.
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Velvetclown
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Posted: May 10 2005 at 11:14 |
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Yeah Salami can kill you
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Seriously, I've often pondered that scenario -- think of all the folks on here with only pseudonyms, and no partners -- we'd likely never know. Hopefully, my wife would tell you. (Course, there would be an obit, and you know my real name.) No "Rideout 3000" writing robot would come to the rescue that dull day....
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threefates wrote:
She was sneaking about with a butcher knife and a salami.