I didn't think about it when I first saw this question but I've been part of an online community where someone died. It was a much smaller community than IIN. There were about twenty of us and eight or nine were regulars. Everyone knew he was ill and we knew it was serious but most of us were under 20 and we didn't think thirty-somethings died. But they do and he did.
It was very strange. We wanted to hold a wake but nobody knew for sure that he'd died. He may have been critical in hospital. After about a month, two or three people got an email from him. We don't know who sent it but it was one of those "to be read after my death" ones. He talked about how much we'd meant to him in his final months while he was housebound and he wished us all happy lives and gave some of us advice (me and my friend got told to stop talking about sex all the time and start doing it, ideally with each other). He was a good guy. And, yeah, it happens.
I'd never know if you were dead
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I didn't think about it when I first saw this question but I've been part of an online community where someone died. It was a much smaller community than IIN. There were about twenty of us and eight or nine were regulars. Everyone knew he was ill and we knew it was serious but most of us were under 20 and we didn't think thirty-somethings died. But they do and he did.
It was very strange. We wanted to hold a wake but nobody knew for sure that he'd died. He may have been critical in hospital. After about a month, two or three people got an email from him. We don't know who sent it but it was one of those "to be read after my death" ones. He talked about how much we'd meant to him in his final months while he was housebound and he wished us all happy lives and gave some of us advice (me and my friend got told to stop talking about sex all the time and start doing it, ideally with each other). He was a good guy. And, yeah, it happens.