What's left behind when a Touhou fan dies?

[Sabino]

I actually feel quite strange writing this, because I already haven't posted for a pretty long time....

In real life, I hope all my stuff would just be sold off or something and nothing be left.
I only have a few RL friends who are in to touhou, and the mountain of stash I've accumulated may be meaningless to them.
(I have enough figmas of Suika to give to every close RL touhou friend I have and still be left over with one or two.)
Although I already feel shame coming neck high looking at some of the smutty stuff that exist in my collection... hey, I'll never be around to feel the shame.
Maybe some of those rare ones could be sold in internet auctions for quite a few bucks, who knows.

Similar ideas with internet life, people go MIA all the time on the internet, and once in a while a different seeming individual may suddenly say that he really just wanted to change his name or something. IDK
Although not in the touhou community, I've already seen countless people just disappear without saying anything, never to hear from them again. (Leaving carcasses of what could've been a successful project behind...)
Those people are rarely talked about after some while, and soon forgotten, and that's what I'd think would happen to me after I go MIA for so long.
There's so much I'd want to do to the community before Komachi comes along and tells me it's my time, and I hope to fulfill that when I could get myself in a less desperate position in RL.

[Infy♫]

I've decided to add to my will that I be buried in my Reimu cosplay. That way when a necromancer raises me from the dead (Which is inevitable, really) I can cosplay zombie Reimu!

haha! that's hilarious. I guess, that by that time, your cosplay will be genuine.

as for what would happen if i vanished... I have no touhou merchandise here, so that's no problem.
my music thread here will sink and be forgotten, maybe one or two of my arranges will eventually be found by the big public on youtube, but not much beyond that... same goes for flanchan.zip if you know it.
I attempt to be social on the internet but more often than i'd like to, i get to realize that those I see as friends are merely people I talk to (note the difference between this and to talk with) and with this in mind, if I'm ever gone, maybe some people will ask eachother where that guy went, and maybe three or four will actually miss me.

Some people here have my facebook so death might be evident due to wall posts from RL friends. but it is to be doubted if anyone will even do that.

[Quad City QBs]

well, a court-appointed administrator would sell off all my shit and settle what portion of my student debt he could (not much, probably)

i imagine the same goes for most of you

[Forte Blackadder]

I don't have much to "leave behind", but I told my parents that when I die, I want  "The Gensokyo the Gods loved" played in my funeral. They said no because that song is their ringtone right now, and suggested I use Broken Moon instead.
Maybe I'll leave behind a family that loves Touhou music.

[Tamer Anode/Cathode]

If for some reason I've made it that far, I'll probably leave my Touhou and other stuff with my child(ren). Otherwise, it's probably going to be left to my family's discretion like the rest of my personal property.

Outside of my online life, nobody really knows that I'm into Touhou that much. I don't really share any information about what I do with my family and friends; even if they did want to inform people of what happened, I'm not sure they'd have the means to do it. From everybody else's perspective, I'd probably just disappear and that would be the end of it. The fact that my death would go mostly unnoticed and unmourned probably scares me more than death itself, honestly.

[Janitor Morgan]

This kind of thing is something I don't really like to think about, but it has to be addressed sooner or later...

I don't have very many Touhou-related things to give away or to have buried with me; aside from one of my sisters, who only has a vague knowledge of the series, nobody I know IRL knows I like Touhou. So it would probably get sold to settle any debt I might have, I guess.

As for online, I think the only way you'd know if I died is if I just suddenly dropped off the face of the earth with no warning at all. I'd like to establish some alternative methods of verifying it -- maybe giving my and my parents' phone numbers to a couple trusted friends -- just in case something does happen, but...hopefully it doesn't have to come to that.

[Suikama]

Eh, either a) people notice and grieve or b) no one notices and no one cares but either way I won't really care because I'm dead. :derp:
Life's too short to be wasted by spending too much time thinking about your own death anyways.

[Agent of the BSoD]

If I were to suddenly die (for whatever reason) my sister is on this forum, so I would imagine she would post something about it somewhere. I'm pretty active here, so a sudden gap youkai of time of me being inactive will possibly mean I'm dead. I don't plan on dying anytime soon though.

I don't really have any Touhou merchandise though. I imagine that my other stuff would be handed down to my sister and parents.

[LeviLamprey]

I'd want Mima or Byakuren's theme played at my funeral, only because most of the themes I like such as Hartmann's, Satori Maiden, Candid Kappa etc. wouldn't fit. I don't own any merchandise aside from the bare essentials, so nothing to give away, really. Nobody I know even knows Touhou exists. It seems silly to take mys tuff with me to the grave. Obviosuly I won't contemplate it after death, but beforehand just having one of those two themes played would be enough. Having the few people who care for me at my funeral is enough for me.
inb4myassholefatherplaysheianalienatmyfuneral
Well, he also doesn't know about Touhou and lives interstate, but that would be typical of him. That song is like an insult to death, I swear.

[Lepetit89]

Oh, interesting question, crossed my mind occasionally, but now that I think about it, I guess there's only one way to handle such unfortunate events.

1) Have all of my collection handed over to my best friend so he can sell everything. It's important that it is him who sells it as opposed to, say, some kind of official, since the presence of my Doujinshi could jeopardize the last step and also result in me being dishonorably discharged post-mortem (depending on where I work) or wind up in the newspapers as the "Dead Monster of Germany".
If my collection has reached the size I predict by my (hopefully late) demise, everything will go as planned.
Furthermore, I entrust my best friend with this task because he's just as terrible as me when it comes to money, always looking for maximum profit while maintaining one last shred of humanity - never stealing. Also, there's no chance of him keeping or using some of my Doujinshi because of his sexual orientation, so he's my safest bet.

2) Once he has managed to sell everything and thus gathered enough funds, I want him to either
2a) have a hospital wing erected in my name (definitely no charities)
2b) have my grave changed into a real tomb

In both cases, I'd want a statue of me sculptured, either at the entrance of the tomb or in the waiting room of the ward.

I think I'd actually prefer option 2b), there's a high risk of my tomb being desecrated by juvenile delinquents or, even worse, being used for below-average porn movies by goths.

Of course, I can only judge this based on my current situation, I'm sure that things would change should I get married or become otherwise preoccupied, but right now, next to sports and other things I do to challenge myself (Touhou being one of them), my collection is one of the most important aspects of my life, it's that much fun to me. I could take everything to the grave with me, but that would greatly increase the size of my grave and thus the costs. Furthermore, after death, I want to pass on (whatever that would mean), and I think I have enough respect for all individual items in my collection that I'd want other collections to become bigger thanks to them - they shouldn't rot beneath the earth, that part is for me to play.

Also, I always wanted to leave a mark somewhere, not just going poof and disappearing. Donating the money to a hospital would be a great way to do that, I think.

[n i c o l e]

last time I disappeared off the internet unannounced, I said I'd be gone a week but I didn't show up until 3 months had passed. a lot of people I knew online thought I actually had died. I felt so bad about it that I decided I would have to tell people if I'm going offline for extended periods of time and roughly how long I'll be gone, so they don't need to worry. I don't keep my real name or location a secret so it's not like people wouldn't be able to find me if they wanted.

I don't really care what happens to my stuff though. I would like my niece and nephews to get my books and my dad is welcome to my vinyl but everything else can go to charity or get chucked in a bin for all I care.