Sending a text after you’re dead?

[efffervescence]

I was thinking about killing myself tonight as my house is empty for 2 days and then having a timed text message sent to someone saying to call the police or something before someone I love gets back and finds me. How can I do this? Is there any way I can make the police aware without a middleman?

 

[406metallicblue]

it depends on your method whether the police will have time to get to you.

 

[efffervescence]

it depends on your method whether the police will have time to get to you.

I want to be dead for at least 24 hours

 

[406metallicblue]

I want to be dead for at least 24 hours

again, what is your method, or are you asking for one

 

[efffervescence]

again, what is your method, or are you asking for one

SN, sorry I misread ur last reply

 

[406metallicblue]

You want method where you can make contact with the police, take action and the emergency services will find you dead before someone else gets back within 2 hours, right? Sorry, i don't know how long SN takes.

 

[ddutch]

There are options for emails to be send with a death switch online. Just look it up these can be timed on days or. Hours

 

[TiredHorse]

I'm not sure how to do it with texts, but if my current attempt at recovery fails I intend to use LetterMeLater to send the police a scheduled email to notify them the coroner will be needed at my house.

Don't use TimeCave: the time I used them and failed my attempt, they read my supposedly-deleted email and tipped off the police, and I had to do some fast talking to an officer making a "welfare check" to avoid being sectioned. I wrote an account of it when I first joined this forum, back in November; you can probably find it with a search for TimeCave.

 

[Redrock]

I also thought about this, but I am afraid that they will read the message and notify the police ahead of time

 

[TAW122]

On my SMS and carrier, I believe there is an option to send a delayed text message. It varies between each carrier so make sure that you know what your carrier has and what not.

 

[GeorgeJL]

If your attempt is fast you can mail a letter and put it in the mail box after the mail man has already come. It will take at least a day to arrive.

 

[Lara Francis]

I was thinking about killing myself tonight as my house is empty for 2 days and then having a timed text message sent to someone saying to call the police or something before someone I love gets back and finds me. How can I do this? Is there any way I can make the police aware without a middleman?

I was thinking the same thing today.
I thought of a delayed e.mail.
I remember reading a post some time ago that mentioned a company / site called boomarang or similar.need to check it out myself.

 

[TiredHorse]

If your attempt is fast you can mail a letter and put it in the mail box after the mail man has already come. It will take at least a day to arrive.

My back-up to the delayed email, should it fail to reach the police (some email delay services set off spam sensors and the email gets blocked --TimeCave was far worse than LetterMeLater on that score, too), was to leave a note in my mailbox asking the mail carrier to notify the police. I know the mail gets delivered/picked up around 11:00 Mon-Sat, so it would work so long as I was dead by then --or else if I failed my attempt (which happened several times) I could go remove the note from the mailbox. Attempting to ctb on Saturday night gave me an extra day, since the note wouldn't be picked up until Monday.

I remember reading a post some time ago that mentioned a company / site called boomarang or similar.need to check it out myself.

Boomerang is for Gmail, and Gmail may be suspect, just because they routinely scan your emails.

 

[Bedlamb]

@TiredHorse how do you know LetterMeLater won't report to the police?

 

[TiredHorse]

@TiredHorse how do you know LetterMeLater won't report to the police?

I don't, with any certainty --and if you do something like title your email "My Suicide" or "By Now I'm Dead" there's a good chance it'll catch someone's attention. However, TimeCave reported me even after I had cancelled and (supposedly) deleted the email. That was for an early attempt. For later attempts I used LetterMeLater and never had the police show up.

Part of my experience was my fault:

TimeCave's user interface is confusing/crude, and so even after I "deleted" the email it looked as though it was still in the queue to be sent; I therefore contacted TimeCave to make certain the email had, indeed, been deleted --thus drawing their attention to it. It still should have been deleted and therefore unreadable, but it clearly was recoverable and they then forwarded it to the police --which was NOT okay. But had I not made a fuss they probably wouldn't have noticed it. It doesn't change that the email hadn't actually been deleted, as it should have been, and as it was claimed it had been, but I doubt they actually go through and read every email, only the ones that catch their attention.

LetterMeLater's user interface is much better, much clearer, and after subsequent failures to ctb, when I had to go in and delete emails there was no question that they were no longer in the queue. Since I didn't have to contact them and make certain the email was no longer scheduled, their attention was not drawn to it. For all I know they're as sloppy as TimeCave, but their user interface makes it easier for me to compensate and avoid any nosiness.

 

[neveranyhope]

Been thinking about you, @efffervescence

Hope you have found some peace some way.

 

[myrtaryniel]

I'm planning on ctb next weekend because my roommates all leave. To avoid having them find me on monday, I'm gong to send a scheduled email (you can do it with Gmail and an extension called Email Editor) to my local firefighters unit (Police doesn't have their email public) to be read 24 hours or so after i'm dead

 

[efffervescence]

Been thinking about you, @efffervescence

Hope you have found some peace some way.

Sorry, still here. I need more time to prepare I think, I'm considering waiting until I have a free house for a few weeks because I'm expecting that reasonably soon and just posting a letter first class to the police or something. Feels more reliable. Thank you for thinking abt me tho :) <3

 

[neveranyhope]

Sorry, still here. I need more time to prepare I think, I'm considering waiting until I have a free house for a few weeks because I'm expecting that reasonably soon and just posting a letter first class to the police or something. Feels more reliable. Thank you for thinking abt me tho :) <3

No need to apologize, happy to see you. I'm sorry for everything you've been going through. It's been a really dark awful season recently and I wish I'd found this group to get me through sooner. I feel like if I'd been around here prior to this season, it would have been easier to go when I was in the thick of it all recently. It's what I need to do it's just hard to do. It's awful to have to live like this, get a little brighter, only to just have to wait for the dark to return.

If you ever want to talk, just say hi :)