And, they think it matters to someone that they depart.
Yeah, that's what gets me.
I will admit I sort of miss
some primitives who depart (but usually they're not the ones who announce they're leaving; they just sort of go away quietly without notice), but really, nobody's indispensable, including of course myself.
However, I'm vain enough--being human--that I've made arrangements for perpetuation of franksolich if something unfortunate were to befall me. I already asked the administrators a long time ago that in case of my demise, it not be announced in a public forum, that it be kept a secret.
And then they're to assign the screen-name "franksolich" to some other member so as to seamlessly perpetuate the Scourge of the Primitives, without the primitives having the slightest idea.