How will I know you're dead?
Someone needs to start an InterWeb Cemetery; but have it be a legitimate place where handles can be put to rest.
Was seated with T the other night and said out loud: “I should really give you my password for both my email and my blog, so that if I drop dead, you can send out a mass email and then blog about it.”
She agreed.
Neither one of us thinks this is morbid, but rather an excellent communications medium. And so, until someone decides to create a real InterWeb Cemetery – where the logistics of your death are authentic (e.g. We’ll tell ‘em yer dead once we see that darned death sertificut) – I recommend you give one of your best pals your email password and / or blog / live journal password so they can tell us.
Hope this post hasn’t made anyone sad or blue or filled with morose thoughts…
Was seated with T the other night and said out loud: “I should really give you my password for both my email and my blog, so that if I drop dead, you can send out a mass email and then blog about it.”
She agreed.
Neither one of us thinks this is morbid, but rather an excellent communications medium. And so, until someone decides to create a real InterWeb Cemetery – where the logistics of your death are authentic (e.g. We’ll tell ‘em yer dead once we see that darned death sertificut) – I recommend you give one of your best pals your email password and / or blog / live journal password so they can tell us.
Hope this post hasn’t made anyone sad or blue or filled with morose thoughts…
posted by just a girl at 10:31 PM
12 Comments:
yes dear,
i thought the same thing but decided it would add to my intrigue if I suddenly dissappeared.
Pow.
Gone.. Is he dead? Is he a monk? Get married?
Maybe it's a writers thing...
/s/ Andrew
No, I'm with you (surprise, surprise) Maha. I'd warrant I have as many online friends or acquaintances as those I've actually met. If something awful were to happen, and I had no way of knowing why their blogs had suddenly gone silent, I think I'd appreciate knowing the truth, even if it were as awful as that.
xoxox
Espy
I need to get a proper blog. This anonymous posting is just silly.
this is a good idea indeed. I nearly did drop dead recently and as such, i have given my password and legal permission to my sister to use her skills as a writer (as if she can rival me!!!) and lead my friends to my final resting place...
see maha, i'm two steps ahead of you.. and thankfully, not too far ahead.
you know, i've actually thought about this. we have so many friends that we meet through blogs only..how would we know if something were to happen to them? so yeah this is an excellent idea. :-)
maha, we'd all know if you were to pass for the sobs of sorrow would be so loud and so farspread!
Andrew that hilarious that you would think it would "add to your intrigue", lol!!!!
And sadly...a little true.
Espy -- Me too! I have so many friends that I've only ever converged with online, that it makes me a little freaked out to think that something could happen to one of them and I just wouldn't know...(I mean, it's not about me not knowing...it's about me not mourning and worrying...so I guess. erm. it is about me...)
And yes, it's time you got a proper blog.
Jeesus Uzi, you really have a way with words. What do you mean you nearly did drop dead? Does this have to do with toodles? Tell us what happened...share your pain...
And if you're worried about your sisters crap writing (who said that?), how about you prepare a note and save it in the Drafts folder? Make it simple and clear, with the subject line reading: "Hi. I'm dead now."
Should this be so funny?
Anjum -- can you do html? Let's start a page.
FIERY -- you can make all of the animations for the page!! As for what you'd hear...probably something more like a gigantic and collective sigh of relief, heh.
mmmmmwah,
m
well.. my pain has long gone away...but yes, I did nearly drop dead.
It happened on an extremely humid Mississauga evening/close to morning (June 2nd, 05) while I returned from my night shift at work. I had while I held out my health card. I suffered what is known as a respiratory shutdown ie. my brain stopped functioning due to lack of oxygen.
I had been having a serious asthma attack all night at work, which had been worsened by numerous other factors (which I shall not disclose, as then, this would be more of a post then a comment.. oh, i see that line has been passed already). the biggest reason was that i wanted to graduate and since I still had money owing to the university and my last paycheque before graduation was due the next week, I decided to stick it out rather than get myself to a hospital like I should have. Insert cliche here. Anyway, I got myself to a hospital, thank god, and dropped unconcious in front of the nurse.The doctors would later tell me that if this had happened to me even at the other side of the emergency room, I would probably have been dead.
This particular bout of unconciousness was followed by 11 days in ICU, 2 weeks in a ward and then two and a half weeks in rehab. A total of 53 days.
Thats the short story.
During this time, rumours of my collapse/coma/intensive care/seeing the white light and then not liking it/dubious character were spread wide across the seas, from hamilton to mississauga to my family and friends in Karachi.
I survived. Am good now. Good enough to have just come back from spending two months in Karachi. Karachi by the way, forms a fitting anagram with its name, hack air.
cheers.
by the way, the people at Credit valley Hospital in Mississauga do amazing work. Really, they do. They're menu could use something more than mashed potatoes though.
oh god, Uzi, that's a terrifying story...but it's great that the ending is such a safe & happy one.
Salamtak salamtak salamtak! And nothing is worth it...not a loan or anything. I hope you've sort of taken the most important thing from that situation (to never ever let that go so far again!).
Thank you for sharing it >> and this place is for anything you wish, be it a comment or a diatribe or a massive post...which your was not! :)
And to think...53 days. 3anjad, again: Salamtak!
I have to go and reread it...
Hey, how was your asthma in Karachi? I would think that with the humidity and the pollution, not so good?
maha
start a page? of wht, bloggers' contact information? they probably wouldn't want it posted publicly... i know i wouldn't. or did you mean start a page as in a joint blog? i'm so confused.
I think its actually a pretty good idea to start such a project.. where we launch a site that's an online cemetery ...
of course, we ned to have someone pass away first. But seriously tho, I think if we launch it, they will come. People can express their feelings of sadness/love.
I think its actually a damn good idea if we take it on as a serious project which looks to help people in the online community grieve for those that have passed on. Completely anonymous.. example uzi from this and this site has passed on... here is a link to where you can view a memorial to him, post comments.. this is a community that helps this stuff..
a lot of people would not be interested in it, thats for sure.. but i have been on sites before where someone has passed on and people have been at a loss of how to express their feeling for a poster that was funny, caring, intelligent and had over the years, become a good, anonymous friend.
its a thot.. but I'd sign up to work on such a site for sure.
Ok. We have a volunteer...
Now what do we do?
m
lets go have coffee.. that always helps.
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