I have meticulously read through similar questions, answers and their comments but I still do not understand how the deletion is done. From what I understand I email the customer service and then they do what exactly?

> 1) They disable my account so that I can no longer use it?
> 
> 2) They reassign all of my questions and answers to some other
> account? To which one?
> 
> 3) They delete all my questions and answers so that they go away from
> public view?

What is the flexibility (if it exists) of the deletion procedure? Is it possible to erase the traces of my former association with the site. Can I request any of the following be done?

> 4) All of my questions and answers be deleted from public view?
> 
> 5) Some of my questions and answers be deleted? If yes what criteria?
> 
> 6) Can I have all of my contributions be assigned to some other
> account which runs as sort of a "collective account" and already has
> tons of content so that it doesn't happen like my contributions just
> move to some other url but still stay grouped under that location and
> therefore that location can be discovered as representing my account?
> 
> 7) Can I have my contributions dispersed through several "collective
> accounts?
> 
> 8) Can my current public name be removed from any comments to my posts
> so that my posts cannot be identified later as once belonging to me?

Please be polite with me. I wouldn't have asked if I have found the answer in the other questions. The other questions are also old and it is not clear what the situation is as per 05/2012.

UPDATE (for those interested):

I asked the Stackoverflow team about the procedure. Apparently none of the points 2-8 I asked above are possible, only 1 will take place. The link to my user page from my contributions is going to be removed and replaced with non-clickable text of an anonymized user name like "user1234". Whether this number is the same as my current user_id is not clear. That's all the information I got.

I'm going now to rename myself to "Anonymous" then request the account deletion. Those interested in the procedure will witness the exact result on this page.

Farewell.