[BluegrassScholar]

Hmmm...all we are is dust in the wind...er, server.

[danneskjold]

AfterImage Bump...

[Izzy Dunne]

Web browsers have to sift through oceans of data left behind by the dead.

Wouldn't it be nice to view the history of George Washington or Abe Lincoln, or Albert Einstein?
Who they talked to, what bands theyu listened to, who their idols were?

OK, maybe not.

[spodefly]

I, spodefly, being of sound mind and body do hereby bequeath my online presence to the cumulative entity known as the internet. And my collection of cereal toys.

[hispanarepublicana]

FReepers never die. They just get Moved to Chat, if they've lived right and ZOT!ted if they haven't.

[cripplecreek]

The history of mankind from about 1995 on will be incredibly detailed.

[hispanarepublicana]

PS: Personally, if I were to die, I'd like Free Republic and FReepers to engage in a proper wake for me, complete with FReepers getting so drunk, that they have no hope of correctly typing "Hispanarepublicana." Hell, I can barely do it sober, and it's my own FR name!

[radiohead]

This is interesting stuff. A number of people at my school do research on online communities - who participates, why, why the communities develop, are maintained or fade away, etc. This isn't just an academic interest - firms also have researchers determining who's in their online communities and why.

Damn, I may have to revise my proposal...

[Billthedrill]

When I die I'm going to bequeath my FR nick to someone deserving, someone luminous, someone capable of maintaining the high Drill standards of posting so that no one here will be devastated by my loss.

I wonder if Charlie Manson's available?

[olde north church]

I have set up a "foundation" of sorts to continue my legacy into the Internet ether ocean. Is it self absorbed? Nah. I'm programming my sense of humor and other emotional responses.
If I people didn't have the irrational fear of science, I would be setting myself up to be cloned.

[Happygal]

Now THIS is what you call a Zot! ;-)

[scott7278]

BM

[The South Texan]

The ghosts will come out and vote for Democrats come Novemeber.

[Alouette]

Long article, but not one mention of how he died. Suicide, leukemia, murder, terrorist attack, motor vehicle accident, brain aneurysm, AIDS, anthrax, allegric bee sting? 20 year olds don't usually die of "natural causes."

[EvaClement]

bookmark

cyberspace reference

[Ken H]

I had actually thought about starting a thread on this topic. Considering that there are 150,000+ registered to this forum and their average age is probably well over the national average, we're going to lose a fair number every year.

When I get around to my will, I'm going to leave a sealed envelope with my freeper name and password along with a final message to the forum. I'll have the executor post it.

I'm also going to notify the election board that all my posthumous votes go to the GOP, unless they're gun grabbers:)

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[lowbridge]

I, lowbridge, being of sound mind and body...

...spent it all while I was still alive.

[Hank Rearden]

“It seemed like no one really cared about him dying,”

Put me on that list. I died of boredom right there.

[LonePalm]

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

We all live on in the hearts of people that knew us and those that learn about us. We are never truely gone until all record of our existance is gone.

Children are a very slow time machine by which we travel forward into eternity.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[JockoManning]

bookmarking ... reference for a later "season" of life.