A very practical consideration I've been thinking about more and more over the last few days - especially now I have everything I need for my CTB method. I'm planning to use SN, but haven't selected a date for it yet.
I'm going to send some delayed emails to people after I've gone - one to the few 'friends' I still have (though even the closest of them I haven't seen in almost 2 years and they've expressed no interest in seeing or contacting me unless I can do something for them), to the two remaining members of my family (we don't get on at all and are pretty much completely estranged), and to my landlords (to tell them that "hey, your tenant of 13 years has checked out, finally, and is lying dead in his flat").
Practical question is: how long can I leave it until, well, my corpse begins to smell and people might notice? I'm going to CTB in a room with a window open and quite a bit of fresh air blowing through it (well, London air, so it's mostly polluted). I know I won't be here to care, but psychologically I don't like the thought of being discovered weeks later. At the same time, however, I don't want to be discovered too soon - I'm 99.99% certain that no one will notice I've gone unless I tell them, and (petty though it is) I don't want to let people know too soon because frankly I'd like to make a few people realise that they didn't even notice I wasn't around anymore.
I'm going to send some delayed emails to people after I've gone - one to the few 'friends' I still have (though even the closest of them I haven't seen in almost 2 years and they've expressed no interest in seeing or contacting me unless I can do something for them), to the two remaining members of my family (we don't get on at all and are pretty much completely estranged), and to my landlords (to tell them that "hey, your tenant of 13 years has checked out, finally, and is lying dead in his flat").
Practical question is: how long can I leave it until, well, my corpse begins to smell and people might notice? I'm going to CTB in a room with a window open and quite a bit of fresh air blowing through it (well, London air, so it's mostly polluted). I know I won't be here to care, but psychologically I don't like the thought of being discovered weeks later. At the same time, however, I don't want to be discovered too soon - I'm 99.99% certain that no one will notice I've gone unless I tell them, and (petty though it is) I don't want to let people know too soon because frankly I'd like to make a few people realise that they didn't even notice I wasn't around anymore.
