I was just thinking about LiveJournals of people who have died

I've seen several of them. I don't think that anyone I really knew PERSONALLY, in the flesh, who had a livejournal has died -- but there are more than one people on my friends list who died.

I don't remove them from my list. I . . . don't really know why.

If I were to make a random suggestion to LiveJournal/Six Apart, it would be to have a new format or something: that, when informed that an LJ user had died, that they could add a death date to the User info page, black border the journal, and maybe put a final post up, called "Wake." There's something so jarring about all the "We will miss you" messages following up the most mundane "So, I got a speeding ticket, and I payed the gas bill, and I am hoping to see that cute redheaded girl in class tonight. . ."

It's appropriate, of course. That's how death works. Or, one way that it does, anyway. But it would also be appropriate to do something different, ceremonial with it.

If I drop dead randomly, Lis, you can log into my account and make a new post titled "Wake." You can edit my bio info to mention that I'm no longer biological.

But I rather hope I don't drop dead randomly. At least, not for a good sixty, seventy more years. I rather enjoy being alive, I think. And am rather terrified of being dead.

Other things I spaced on.

Oh, right. Today's the day jehanna is showing up to to check out the job market up here.

Fortunately, as today's dinner is soup, and I made a BIG pot, there's plenty of food. 'Course, I'm going to have to get stuff set up downstairs for her.