What happens here when you die?

[Bramblethorn]

With apologies for the morbid topic, but... none of us live forever. I know of a few forum members who've passed on, over the years, and others who just stopped posting. It's difficult, when most of us are pseudonymous.

Professional authors often have (or are advised to have) a literary executor who takes care of their works after they die. I know of another site that has a "next of kin" feature so that users can nominate somebody to take over their account.

Do you have anybody tapped to wind up your Literotica account when you go? Would the forum members ever hear about it?

 

[KeithD]

Mostly here when you die your stories sit without new additions for a couple of months and then someone asks what happened to you and are your stories finished and available somewhere else?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Then will I stand naked before the Executive Editor and do penance for my typos; my stories and will belong to anyone who can find them.

 

[ElectricBlue]

One of my old betas decided he'd be my literotica executor. He even had plans to front up at my funeral and scare the shit out of my children, "Did you know that your dad was a smutster?"

However, he's now orbiting different planets I think, so unless I time my death to the next sighting, like Halley's Comet, that idea's dead in the water.

I'm the eternal optimist and like to think I'll have prior warning. You know, to lock down my scores for eternity - leave comments open, obviously, because graffiti on hallowed gravestones gets a good look after fifty years, and eventually you get a new headstone like Jim Morrison did, or a blue plaque like Oggbashan will.

I can picture it now, when Literotica celebrates its fiftieth anniversary and we all buy Laurel a bright red Zimmer frame, newbies will come in here, wander and stumble around, thinking, "Who the fuck's Suzie?" And Simon will proudly say, "She's my sister, and now all she talks about is some dead bastard."

So you can see I've already thought about this, for no more than a minute .

 

[jaF0]

Do you have anybody ... ?

Would the forum members ever hear about it?

Nope.

Nope.

 

[yukonnights]

I've already written a PM to Laurel telling her where to send all the money I'm owed for each click on my stories … I'm keeping a close watch out for her reply. I hope it comes soon, my stories have been doing so well lately I was inspired to re-shuffle my 401-k. Well, I mean the guy at the casino was shuffling, but the 401 money has been reshuffled to a new location But, those stories are gold, that what my wife was told

 

[RejectReality]

My sister knows everywhere I post, and where I keep the lists of passwords to everything. She also knows to keep my computer away from the only other living computer literate member of the family in the area — our brother — until she's acid washed my writing folders before taking it for her own, so she can have access to any games, movies, and other bought-n-paid-for content on it she might want.

The only plan is a quick "He fucking snuffed it," post, and possibly a link to the dead parrot sketch + "Always look on the bright side of life". The stories can stay with voting and comments turned on.

Still undecided on whether I want to allow continuation of incomplete stories or stories written in the worlds I've created, but leaning toward yes.

 

[TxRad]

When I die, all of you will cease to exist, from my view point anyway.

 

[yukonnights]

When I die, all of you will cease to exist, from my view point anyway.

Let's not get started on more point-of-view debates

 

[Javahead]

When I die, all of you will cease to exist, from my view point anyway.

I applaud your solipsism!

I suspect that many - most? - people have the same view of things, or at least the same lack of a plan.

 

[SamScribble]

When I saw the question: What happens here when you die? I was going to say that those of us who survive you gather, virtually, and virtually consume whatever is left in your virtual wine cellar while chatting about what a good chap (or chapess) you were, and how we will virtually miss you. But that wasn't really your question, was it? Oh, well.

 

[TxRad]

When I saw the question: What happens here when you die? I was going to say that those of us who survive you gather, virtually, and virtually consume whatever is left in your virtual wine cellar while chatting about what a good chap (or chapess) you were, and how we will virtually miss you. But that wasn't really your question, was it? Oh, well.

I do like the way you think.

 

[SimonDoom]

Here's a wrinkle to this issue:

Do you care, when you die, whether people might use your stories for their own stories? Write continuations of your stories? Does it bother you to think they would do that, or would it be OK with you if they did?

For most of us it's purely a theoretical question, I suppose, but it's interesting to think about. I'm not sure what I think about it. I don't think I'd mind. It's not like my stories here have any economic value for my heirs. And I think Suzie would be in good hands, so to speak, if EB, or others, wanted to write stories about her after I was gone.

Perhaps the Site should maintain a forum where you can post your post-mortem permission to use your stories.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Here's a wrinkle to this issue:

Do you care, when you die, whether people might use your stories for their own stories? Write continuations of your stories? Does it bother you to think they would do that, or would it be OK with you if they did?

It'd depend on how it was done. Something that was in the spirit of the stories, that'd be fine. Something that ran against the values I tried to put in mine (Sarah gets "cured" of autism, yada yada)... not so much.

 

[oggbashan]

I have a Lit executor who will post a message when informed by my wife, and I have a daughter who is prepared to issue a death notice - perhaps as jeanne_d_artois or Fag-Ash_Lil.

 

[KeithD]

I presume my posting will just stop. Sabb, my coauthor and one of my publishers, might post something--if he knows, but I imagine that correspondence with him will just stop and he'll figure out I'm gone, without knowing how. And then the publishers will just keep any profit still coming in from my marketplace works, as I've established there is to be no contact with my family.

 

[GroverLang]

Gone and forgotten

I have, or had, a very close friendship, although we are thousands of miles apart, with a lady who writes excellent stories. I’m the one who’ll probably go first because there’s forty years difference in our ages and my health isn’t the best (even without Covid-19) and I always imagined if anyone would know she would and then it would be up to her if she wished to make it known.

I say had because it seems she’s broken contact for a reason I know not so I will join the legion of writers whose efforts stop and someone perhaps notices ten months/ten years later. But once you’re gone you won’t know if anyone mourns you anyway so does it matter. I don’t think so.

Nobody ever hears their eulogy.

 

[Athalia]

Nobody ever hears their eulogy.

Well, there have been exceptions. People have faked their death and attended their own funerals. But it's very rare. Usually, they content themselves with reading their obituaries.

As for me, I expect that if I kick off, my editor Jehoram will make some sort of announcement on the site. And I've given him my password so that he can assure Laurel or Manu that the announcement is legitimate. As for what will become of my stories and such, I won't care, but if they want to protect my copyright, that will be up to them.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm not going to care, I'll be dead.

As for my work...no point in removing it seeing anything on here has been pirated to countless sites, and if not, even if I had my wife pull my stories.,,,

someone will have a 'what happened to LC's stories" thread and someone will say I passed on and wanted my stories removed.

Then ten people will send PM's to that person with a wayback machine link because the vultures here have no respect for anyone's wishes when it comes to whacking off to free stories.

I've seen it happen for years now with Alwayswantedto's work.

 

[litfan10]

When I saw the question: What happens here when you die? I was going to say that those of us who survive you gather, virtually, and virtually consume whatever is left in your virtual wine cellar while chatting about what a good chap (or chapess) you were, and how we will virtually miss you. But that wasn't really your question, was it? Oh, well.

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When I die, all of you will cease to exist, from my view point anyway.

and this

 

[litfan10]

I'm not going to care, I'll be dead.

As for my work...no point in removing it seeing anything on here has been pirated to countless sites, and if not, even if I had my wife pull my stories.,,,

someone will have a 'what happened to LC's stories" thread and someone will say I passed on and wanted my stories removed.

Then ten people will send PM's to that person with a wayback machine link because the vultures here have no respect for anyone's wishes when it comes to whacking off to free stories.

I've seen it happen for years now with Alwayswantedto's work.

From being a fan of literature my whole life I've always approached writing with a level of hubris in that my words are going to live past me. Cool.

I'll be dead - I don't need the money. As for the vultures, hopefully I'll be able to haunt their asses giving me a fun job in the afterlife - win win.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

What happens here when you die?

I think you're just as dead here as any other place. Actually, I'm quite sure about that.

 

[MohanSingh]

Haha. Love this question. Someone will still be beating off to your story while you are in some grave.

 

[flytime]

Is this thread serious? Because I could tell anyone of you and none of you would believe.

 

[yukonnights]

Haha. Love this question. Someone will still be beating off to your story while you are in some grave.

That could get to be a problem if they all found out where the author is buried and it turns into a cult following — a right of passage complete with oaths and pledges. My poor family, what would they think of the grave site mess