niqaeli reckoned that this was a good time to revive the Emergency Contact Information First Post meme, and tajasel has a nice static copy of the relevant information, updated for Dreamwidth; I've included the original information for LiveJournal below the cut.

If you've done this in the past, take the time to go back, take a look at the entry, and revise it if there are any changes. The basic meme as it stands only asks for your own personal basic information; I've chosen to include additional information that might be of interest to emergency medical types, including some medical history and contact information for individuals who are actually genetically related to me and local.

If you haven't done this, I recommend that you do. It's actually not all that uncommon for the closest friends of someone who blogs under a pseudonym to know a friend's username, phone number, given name, and deepest darkest secrets, but not exact physical address or family name, if those haven't been relevant for mailing care packages. iroshi has been close to me for almost as long as I've been on LJ, and has seen me at my absolute mental worst, and helped me pick up the broken pieces of my head and put them back together, and she still didn't know my family name when someone asked her about me. I hadn't thought these important enough to tell her, but these things can be relevant in the physical world.

( What's a contact post? )

Everybody's comfort level with this sort of thing varies, but if you are comfortable with this, and/or have listed your contact information in a filtered post for sharing with your friends, consider placing one at the beginning of your journal where it's easy to find.