Wondering what your take on this is.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I let it stay.

    It is weird when someone that uses the number joins signal though… I want to reach out to them because I miss my brother but its a good reminder that life marches on with or without you. And we should let the ones who have left, go.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
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    I add the ⚱️emoji to their name.

    Makes them easy to search for and stop to have a moment of reflection on their effect on my life.

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      2 months ago

      I got confused and then realised it was a cremation urn. Funny how some cultures are different, as in mine Cremation is uncommon and burial is common

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    When the idea that we live on in the memories of the people who liked us, means sth to you, I would keep them. Every time you stumble over their entry this memory gets reactivated. I think that is a nice thing.

    My grandmother died 40 years ago and she told me, when I was very little, to fold the seems of the coffee filter before you put it in. Everytime I make coffee I think about her because of that.

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    2 months ago

    I leave them in if it’s someone i care about. I lost a school kid last year. Took his files out of my drawer today.

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    I tell you what freaked me out - I was tidying up my contacts and my late sister’s photo had changed to that of a nice-looking youngish man. She died of brain cancer in Jan 2020. I’d left her contact there out of sentiment, but of course her number has been recycled. Ooof.

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    2 months ago

    I’ve never deleted any saved contacts on my phone/s over the years so there’s likely more than a couple of people there who are no longer living.

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    Lost a very close friend 3 weeks ago way before his time and used to see him online on steam every time I was on. It hurts seeing his name and knowing he’ll never be back. In terms of phone contacts they kind of get filtered out naturally when I move devices .

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    I don’t keep my contacts list clean. Deceased people are to be found in my contact list; not as any sort of memorials, but because it didn’t even occur to me to remove them. A couple bits of data storage is free. Going in and deleting them takes effort.

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    I delete them. Numbers get repurposed after a while, and I don’t want to scroll through my whatsapp contact list and end up seeing names of former loved ones with some blond girly in their profile pic.

    I might export chat histories to preserve them elsewhere though, but not the contact itself.

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    My father died in 2022. I still haven’t removed him from my contacts. I don’t know when I will. It’s not that it’s terribly painful, but there is discomfort even thinking about something that feels so final. Grief is irrational.