Physical letters or delayed emails? Both?

[Midnight-rain]

I'm wondering if I should stick with letters or emails when it comes to my suicide notes. I want to give people closure that it's not their fault and this was inevitable. Y'know, the usual. Therefore I won't be ctbing without writing them first.

I can see problems arising from both ways however. With physical letters there is more chances of the damn thing either getting lost in the mail or the appointed messenger not being able/willing to hand the letters out. With delayed emails there's no guarantee the recipient will even notice the email in their inbox and they may immediately dismiss it and delete it. I don't even have the email addresses of most of the people I'd want to send emails to, so I'd have to find an excuse to ask for it in the first place without arousing suspicion.

A mix of both sound ideal to me. I've even considered making two copies of each one that way there's increased odds of them being delivered. Would like some outside input on this.

 

[SpentStardust]

Both ways seems best. I remember reading a book about a girl mailing audio tapes to people before ctb and also giving a copy of all the tapes to a friend, so that he could check that everyone listened to those tapes. If you know someone reliable like that you can give them a copy of everyone's messages so that this person can make sure everyone has read them. Personally what I think I'll do is schedule a YouTube video and send the link to two friends, the video will contain a google drive link that has everyone's messages, so they can get the messages delivered with the help of other people.

 

[Midnight-rain]

Both ways seems best. I remember reading a book about a girl mailing audio tapes to people before ctb and also giving a copy of all the tapes to a friend, so that he could check that everyone listened to those tapes. If you know someone reliable like that you can give them a copy of everyone's messages so that this person can make sure everyone has read them. Personally what I think I'll do is schedule a YouTube video and send the link to two friends, the video will contain a google drive link that has everyone's messages, so they can get the messages delivered with the help of other people.

Was the book 13 Reasons why? And man I wish I trusted someone to that level. I don't know if the person I have in mind would be willing to carry out such an emotionally heavy task. It's not like I can ask them while I'm alive cause they'll try to dissuade me from ctb.

Your idea sounds neat though, I like it.

 

[SpentStardust]

Was the book 13 Reasons why? And man I wish I trusted someone to that level. I don't know if the person I have in mind would be willing to carry out such an emotionally heavy task. It's not like I can ask them while I'm alive cause they'll try to dissuade me from ctb.

Your idea sounds neat though, I like it.

It was indeed. If you don't trust that person enough, maybe have other people as a backup? The more different methods you use, the better the chances everyone will receive your messages will be. Having too many people have the same task might not be that good though. Another method I just thought of is to schedule SMS messages, if you have the number of those people.

 

[Midnight-rain]

It was indeed. If you don't trust that person enough, maybe have other people as a backup? The more different methods you use, the better the chances everyone will receive your messages will be. Having too many people have the same task might not be that good though. Another method I just thought of is to schedule SMS messages, if you have the number of those people.

Do all messaging apps let you send those? Don't only a few offer it?

 

[SpentStardust]

Do all messaging apps let you send those? Don't only a few offer it?

For Android, Google Messages lets you send scheduled SMS messages by long pressing the send button. If you're talking about Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord etc, I don't think there are any options for Whatsapp and Discord, not sure about Telegram.

 

[theboy]

both

 

[GrumpyFrog]

Do all messaging apps let you send those? Don't only a few offer it?

Which messaging app are you interested in?
Telegram sure did add a scheduled message feature recently, the option appears if you hold the "send" button. WhatsApp doesn't have a built-in feature like this, but there are apps like WhatsApp Scheduler and Do It Later that you can install for that purpose, I haven't tested them, but looks like they should work. I don't know about options for personal scheduled messages on Discord, but you can send a scheduled message into a channel of your choice using the popular MEE6 bot. The only messenger that doesn't have an option like this as far as I know is Facebook messenger, it is hard to tamper with via outside apps and it doesn't have a built-in feature like that.
If there is some other messenger I didn't think about, let me know what you'd like to use and I look into it.