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Do you know anyone who is Dead?!

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    #32
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Big Bottom wrote: »
    On this forum for example but still have an active account?

    I know someone who died and on their FB page it is still open and people were posting well wishes on their wall.
    It still open and the relatives want it that way.

    Does anyone know if anyone on Boards is dead but that their account is still open?

    A bit morbid I know.

    Thanks

    In cases like this, it's called being in the wild.

    Some websites will close your account if you have not used it in replying or anything for a good while, but some just leave the account open in the wild.


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    #33
    Halloran springs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭Halloran springs


    Rosabeez - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=30577
    Pygmalion - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=237219
    eire_bhoy - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=17962
    THEMINDER - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=229633
    JIZZLORD - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=22874

    R.I.P


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    #34
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    An absolutely brilliant friend of mine commited suicide not too long ago. In fact, he was the best buddy you could know, he always got in the last word. This isn't meant to be a morbid response btw. His OH and with his family's consent, decided she could keep his FB account open. I would honestly love to post the song that he put on his profile the night before he passed away (and he definitely got in the last word). To this day, when I need a good stomach felt laugh, I'll head to his account and just laugh away, by just seeing the photos. Memories fade too fast, so it's always good to have something visible to provoke those fading emotions.


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    #35
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    phasers wrote: »
    Tupac was Jewish... Not cool man.

    ??
    Tupac was Jewish?...
    Shalome motherfuc.ker.


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    #36
    Pimlico
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭Pimlico


    Big Bottom wrote: »
    Im sure that someone would ask a mod or something to close a persons account if they knew they had passed away.

    Im asking because of the FB page a girl had but they have not closed it or asked it to be closed which I think is strange.

    My Brother will be nine months passed on Tuesday. He died very suddenly, so no time for goodbyes or such.

    His Facebook page is still open, still gets posts on it and I wouldn't change it for the world. It is a comfort, to all of us and his friends. I click on it now and then just looking through past comments and pictures, it makes me smile when I remember these little things he was posting about or the night out we had when such a pic was taken etc..

    I genuinely don't find it weird or strange in the slightest. I don't get it with the near obsession some people have with wanted to erase everything from a persons life once their life has ceased to be. Why would we request for it to be closed just because he has passed?, to me, It would be like erasing a little corner of the world that my brother created, even If it is just a facebook page. That's just my take on it though, I understand it's totally subjective.


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    #37
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,705 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    My aunt has been dead a few years and her Facebook account is still open. It's nice to see her pic, but it's a bit weird tbh, I would prefer for the account to be closed. She gets notifications for games and such, but none of us in the family have posted anything there since.

    I have wondered too. It's an interesting question though. Will kids in the future be trawling the internet to try and locate their dead parents activity on social sites, just like precious paper diaries were left to be read in our grand parents time ?
    My grandmother left a box full of diaries for us all to find after she passed, it was great to get such insight into her life. I wouldn't mind if my kids read my posts on here when I die.
    But the bit where accounts are still open is wrong imo.


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    #38
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    Pimlico wrote: »
    My Brother will be nine months passed on Tuesday. He died very suddenly, so no time for goodbyes or such.

    His Facebook page is still open, still gets posts on it and I wouldn't change it for the world. It is a comfort, to all of us and his friends. I click on it now and then just looking through past comments and pictures, it makes me smile when I remember these little things he was posting about or the night out we had when such a pic was taken etc..

    I genuinely don't find it weird or strange in the slightest. I don't get it with the near obsession some people have with wanted to erase everything from a persons life once their life has ceased to be. Why would we request for it to be closed just because he has passed?, to me, It would be like erasing a little corner of the world that my brother created, even If it is just a facebook page. That's just my take on it though, I understand it's totally subjective.

    Beautiful post


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    #39
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Halloran springs wrote: »
    THEMINDER - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=229633

    Whoa, I'd no idea. I remember seeing him post around the Airsoft forum. RIP


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    #40
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Mountainsandh wrote: »
    My aunt has been dead a few years and her Facebook account is still open. It's nice to see her pic, but it's a bit weird tbh, I would prefer for the account to be closed. She gets notifications for games and such, but none of us in the family have posted anything there since.

    I have wondered too. It's an interesting question though. Will kids in the future be trawling the internet to try and locate their dead parents activity on social sites, just like precious paper diaries were left to be read in our grand parents time ?
    My grandmother left a box full of diaries for us all to find after she passed, it was great to get such insight into her life. I wouldn't mind if my kids read my posts on here when I die.
    But the bit where accounts are still open is wrong imo.

    Absolutely, that's a definite. imo.


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    #41
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Rozabeez' boards account is closed in order to remove her as a listed moderator in a forum. I'm sure you were wondering why hers was the only one to be actually closed. Her facebook is full of beautiful posts, photos and memories and many would be devastated if it were closed I know.


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    #42
    GoldenLight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    Through Social networking sites, I onnly know of one account, and it's not here or facebook, he was just a person I knew on a site and shared similar music interests with, they left his account as open.

    I'm not sure how I would feel about it, if it was anyone closer to me, but if it helps the people griefing, that cared about the person, I wouldn't have a major problem with it at all.

    To the people, who have lost in this thread, thank you, very inspirational stories and I'm sorry for your lose. I for one can't dictate how you remember your friends and family, and I don't believe anyone else does either.


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    #43
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Yes an auld college friend who is deceased (R.I.P. B) but both his boards and facebook are still open and active. His brother has taken both accounts on and the posts on his facebook page are just sweet, especially around anniversary-time. All get-togethers and group reunions are mentioned also and he would be tagged in them still on facebook by varying group members.


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    #44
    areyawell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    Rigol wrote: »
    ??
    Tupac was Jewish?...
    Shalome motherfuc.ker.

    And? So was Jesus


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    #45
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    Got an email from bebo today telling me to wish a certain person happy birthday, but sadly she died a couple of years ago. Took me off guard considering I didn't even think I used my current email address to sign up to bebo back when.


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