Posted: 2/12/2011 7:19:53 PM EDT
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Interesting situation...
My dad's old boss committed suicide 4 months ago but on Facebook he still has a full page and over 500 friends. Is he really dead? 
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Interesting situation... My dad's old boss committed suicide 4 months ago but on Facebook he still has a full page and over 500 friends. Is he really dead? I've heard it's a lengthy process to request a removal of a page. Unless somebody knew his password, and could just go in and delete it themselves. |
| I had a friend get killed in a car wreck about a year and half ago. He was only 22 years old. No one knew his password. Friends and family still post on his wall on his birthday and during holidays. It makes me sad, but I can't seem to make myself "unfriend" him. |
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Interesting situation... My dad's old boss committed suicide 4 months ago but on Facebook he still has a full page and over 500 friends. Is he really dead? ok Let's not make this one like the one about my gf. I got her back btw everyone. pics or it didnt happen 
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Quoted: He has achieved immortality. I have two fallen servicemen still listed as friends on my account, and I don't even have a lot of people. Their pages have pretty much become memorials, deleting them would feel pretty douchey. Ditto. Wife of a guy still maintains his page. Weird seeing him popping up as adding new friends or pics...but makes me want a raise a beer to him every time..."To the Fallen!" |
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Interesting situation... My dad's old boss committed suicide 4 months ago but on Facebook he still has a full page and over 500 friends. Is he really dead? ok Let's not make this one like the one about my gf. I got her back btw everyone. I sense an attention whore on the horizon... 
BTW who are you and who cares about you and your gf? |
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Got a buddy who died 3 years ago. His myspace page is still up and does get posted on once and a while by friends and family. Many of his old friends only learned of his death via the internet. Had quite a few of them show up at the memorial. It is a pretty fascinating phenomenon. I wonder if it will become commonplace for people to specify in wills or trusts instructions on what to do with their on line presence in the event of their demise. |
Not exactly Facebook, but you get the point  http://mydeathspace.com/article-list.aspx Here's an abnormally weird one. http://mydeathspace.com/article/2011/02/09/Michael_Koury_%2819%29_shot_himself_in_the_jaw,_then_slit_his_throat_with_a_9_inch_knife,_before_finally_ending_his_life_by_gunshot_to_the_head_after_he_killed_another_man |
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My mom died a little over a year ago and I had/found the password to her FB page. I posted a message on there and how to get in touch with me. After 3-4 months I deleted everything I could and unfriended everyone. I figured it would be harder to convince and get FB to delete the account than it would to get the IRS to forgive a debt. |
