I don’t think I’ve made this thread on the new forums yet. I was going to just call it The Plan, but 10 characters are required for titles. Anyway…
Dark as it is, perhaps it’s a good time to make a plan.
If you pass away, do you have a plan in place for informing others online?
Is there someone who knows your passwords? A friend IRL who could pass things along?
Do you want people to know? Why or why not?
Don’t think I’ll need one, most wouldn’t care but my SO might put something on FB
lol no one would even notice I was gone anyway so it wouldn’t matter XD
Meh… if I dropped dead no one online would notice or care. I don’t do Facebook or Twitter. I don’t even have accounts. I am not interesting enough for people to follow and don’t find other people interesting enough to follow them.
I have my wife, my immediate family, my little group of core friends, and my coworkers. All of whom know how to contact me/my wife irl if need be. Beyond that… nah.
I think my wife would pass the message on to my guild friends at least.
Guess I haven’t really thought about whether I want people to know, though. I’ve never liked making a fuss, so probably not I suppose.
Fingers crossed we all endure the Plague though!
I don’t and I should, at least with my guildies. WoW is pretty much the only social game I play so if my guildies found out they’d spread the word around. Think I might just leave a note on my computer to have my family drop a message in Discord should it happen.
I got a word document on my computer if my mom/sisters remembers to do it with instructions.
Mogo want body of Mogo put in Superman suit and throw out of plane above New York. One last Mogo surprise. You will know Mogo pass by news of that and Mogo stuff not being on AH.
I cannot die.
A day I hope never comes. I love you mogo
One person that helps run my community has my contact info… They’d get a text from a family member, and then they’d be able to let people in-game know what had happened.
I used to.
Recently left every discord I was in though so now the only way anyone would know is if one of my oldest WoW buddies I’m still friends with on FB thinks to mention it to anyone here. Maybe I should talk to him about that. -shrug-
you know neither of us can even go 2 days without checking in on each other so hush lol
My family will have a list of contacts. Both for friends I know face to face & those I only know through the interweb. And my interweb friends include those who know my wishes for WoW both OOC & IC.
When my time comes - regardless of how it does - my characters get a happy ending.
That’s a nice idea honestly. I should think about that. I kinda assumed all my characters would simultaneously die. But thinking of happy endings sounds nice.
I have passwords printed out on a sheet of paper, filed away, just in case. So, like, if anyone wants to have access to my 5 cents worth of cryptocurrency.
I have a small piece of paper in my wallet that says, If I die, please email (person) to let them know. I also have business cards from people at work, so hopefully whoever finds my dead, mutilated body will be able to contact them, too.
I think about death sometimes, because my mom died in a motorcycle crash about a decade ago. Is this thread morbid enough for ya? 
I’ve got a ton of alts so “happy ending” means a lot of different things. Amongst the varieties i’ve got planned (vague enough to be no spoilers) - “last seen holding off the baddies while the rest helped the wounded and refugees escaped”, actually sailing off into the sunset to see what’s not on the map, walking through a portal to a pre-Sundering alt-Pandaria, retiring to a country place only the grand-cubs know about, …
Thinking about it though - I should probably actually write them up & stash them somewhere safe, to be posted at the proper time.
They’d find out through FB and know to inform people.
And to infuse my ashes into a cannonball and fire it out to sea.
I have no online friends so, at most, a guild leader might briefly think of me two years down the line when they delete inactives from the guild.
I have nothing official or useful planed. I always figured no one would noticed, but eventually realized people I play with start to wonder where I went off to if I’m gone too long. So I guess eventually someone would catch on.
In a totally useless plan, I do fully intend to come back as a ghost and pull pranks on my friends. If you open a cupboard and all the dishes have been flipped upside down or there is a cat-eared smiley face written on the wall in drippy goop (probably hot pink too), you’ll know I’m dead.
My friends in the TTT would likely be the first to know, and would pass it on to my raid leader for my current raiding guild. It would get around over time. I don’t think I matter enough for it to be a big deal, though. I’ve thought of this before, given that I’ve stared down death’s door twice in the past 5 years.
As for what happens to Atos ICly, I anticipate people will treat him as being happily retired.