It’s interesting that you say that Christopher.  Right after the confirmation of my diagnosis and confirmation of the prognosis, the same thought occurred to me.  I left instructions as part of my will that one of my daughters was to inform a list of people and groups of my passing.  To make it easy for her, I put together a brief announcement to which she could add a date and her own comments and I supplied her with a distribution list.  It seemed awfully morbid at first, but in the end, it was business which had to be tended to.  Like a lot of people, I have friends with whom my relationship has been almost exclusively on line and some of my relationships go back to the mid-80′s with some of the Usenet friends I made back in those days.  We’re still in frequent email and online touch with one another.

I can recall reading some of Ms. Jameson’s articles here but I never got much a sense of her as a person from them.  In any case, I hope her passing was swift and without much pain.  I extend my condolences to her surviving kin and friends.