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Death Notices Via Text Message? Teddy iz totes Ded.

July 6, 2008 · 2 Comments

While running today I for some unexplained reason started thinking about death. Specifically how people would be notified should I die.

So none of my friends have my home phone number. And barely any of them know my parents well enough to be included on any kind of email list. Really I think only one of them is in contact with my mom via email

So I am starting to wonder how people would be notified should I die. Like if I were to kick it today, how would my friends find out I was dead? It is not like S would call my house today and my parents would pick up and deliver the bad news. And it is not like my parents would call my friends…cause they don’t have their numbers.

Sure, my parents could scroll through my cell phone address book and call people, but wouldn’t that be weird? Would they call all the random biddies? What if my cell phone was no where to be found?  Then what.

I wonder who would be the first to find out. How would they find out?

Wouldn’t it be weird if your cell phone some how new you were dead and sent out a mass text to people?  My school does-erg did (i am still not feeling like a graduate)- this when there was a snow storm. What would the text say? could I customize it?  What if it was a mass voicemail I had pre-recorded?  It would be like hearing a ghost speak. Like seeing heath ledger play in Batman posthumously. Weird.
Other questions…Who would shut down my facebook account?
Who would shut down the blog?
Do I need to specify this in my will?
When do you write a will?
Shit.

Time to watch the OC on the Soap channel.

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