Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:

> Then he died.

Have you noticed how every time a schoolboy is killed in a tragic 
accident or dies of a horrible disease or is randomly shot by gunmen or 
something, his friends from the school always say "he was a happy, 
out-going boy who was loved by everyone"?

I've never yet heard anybody say "it's a shame he's dead, but actually 
he was a bit of a tosser". Surely some people who get killed *are* not 
well liked. Not that they deserve to die or anything, but surely not 
everybody who gets killed was the very center of the community they 
lived in.

I sometimes wonder what people will say about me after I'm dead. Whether 
they'll claim I was popular and successful, liked by everybody. Or 
whether they'll say the truth: that hardly anybody even noticed me in 
their day to day lives. I can just see the conversation in the tea room 
at work now. "Andrew died." "Oh, that's terrible." "Yeah." "...anyway, 
so what did you do this weekend?"

Of course, most of the people who "know" me are only contactable online, 
so if I did die, most of the people I know would just assume my PC 
stopped working or something...

The fact that I've spent this long thinking about my own death probably 
tells you something about my mental state. o_O

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