Or, you could just drop dead. A DBA I had worked with years ago disappeared from work. Nobody on the contract knew where he was. After a week or so, his parent

Or, you could just drop dead. A DBA I had worked with years ago disappeared from work. Nobody on the contract knew where he was. After a week or so, his parents, who lived maybe 100 miles away, called the contract manager. He discovered that the man was in the county morgue as John Doe, having been found dead on the sidewalk outside his apartment, without ID on him. I assume most HN readers are - younger than the DBA, who was probably in his mid-fifties - in better condition, for he was obese - in a wider social circle, for he was pretty anti-social Still, it isn't bad to have people who will know that you have disappeared.