Tell the other nodes that you are powering off / leaving the mesh

Today I was watching my two ttgo t-beam boards in the gqrx waterfall with an rtl sdr stick.

I turned them on and off and pressed the user button to learn when they are transmitting and
how long.

When I turn off a board I noticed there is no transmission.

Then this idea came to my mind:

I think it would be interesting for the other nodes if one node powers off,
either by user action or due to low power, isn’t it ?

What about telling the mesh that you are leaving ?
I believe this is an interesting information for the other nodes in the mesh, isn’t it ?

If you know that the other side is offline on purpose of due to do low battery.

So i thing this is a feature request: Please transmit a message to the mesh if there is a user initiated shutdown or on low battery shutdown by a node.

What do you think about this idea?

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