When Gamers Die...

A friend of mine who asked to remain nameless sent me this link today and I thought it was interesting/funny.

Here's an excerpt...

"There are some things that never cross my mind. The recipe for chicken cacciatora, for example. Or the name of George Stephanopoulos' hairdresser.

And, until my wandering eye caught this remarkable story on Yahoo News, I had never thought about what happens when gamers die.

Do their fellow gamers wonder where they've gone? Do they try and contact them? Or do they just assume that they have given up gaming and checked into a halfway house, either on Earth or in the sky?

Here is the example of Robert Bryan's father. Last year, he died. But he's left a technological last will and testament: a black USB flash drive. On it were the names of those who needed to be told, one whom being the administrator of an online group.

"It was kind of creepy because I was telling all these people that my dad was dead," his son said."

I guess it's never occurred to me that one day, hopefully far off, I'll suddenly just disappear to a whole group of contacts whom I've known online for years.  I know this is a site for "older" gamers but let's all hope we don't get to the point where we have to have our own 2o2p Obituary Forum.