Usually called the doctor. Or the caretaker.

An open letter to snobahr, averypenguin, and anyone else who habitually engages in this behavior.

STOP POSTING BIRTH, INJURY AND DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW.

Stop it.

It's inappropriate. It's disgustingly, repulsively insensitive to the feelings of the people whose right it is to convey the information. And frequently, because you don't even KNOW THE PEOPLE INVOLVED, you get stuff WRONG. And that is the most disgusting, repulsive thing of all. It's not enough that you rush to "scoop" other people regarding things you have no right to announce, no. You have to be the absolute first to post, which means that you are frequently WRONG.

Here's a thing: my partner was, once upon a time, a fairly important person in the SCA, and he has friends in a lot of kingdoms, and those friends will want to know that he has died, when he dies. And if I see that you, snobahr, have posted something about his death, I'm going to show up on your doorstep and personally bitchslap you into the twenty-second century.

And I'm not going to tell you his SCA name. So just know that anytime you post a death notice for someone you don't know personally, from now until the end of time, it could herald my arrival on your doorstep. And my arm will already be cocked.

So just be warned.