Have you ever Googled an old acquaintance I found out he/she died? (wife, boyfriend)

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by Pitt Chick

Yep.

Hopefully someone closed his Facebook account. THAT is way creepy to me... dead people with open accounts and people posting on it.

OP -- yep -- weirder to find out the person took her own life.

And I believe Facebook, if notified by a spouse or relative (with proof) will place the person as an eternal member -- basically telling people he or she has departed, but allowing people to share on the page, as a comfort to the family...

[NCN]

Last year I helped my high school class find hard to locate people for our 50th reunion. We found our class had lost about 14 to death.

[stan4]

Yes.

I was wondering why I hadn't heard from my friend from high school re: our 20th reunion in 2013. She was the valedictorian and we were on the AcDec team and same social circle. She had her birthday at my house one year before going back to Harvard. Ran into her during med school interviews a few years later. We had emailed off and on but got busy.

Turns out she died of breast cancer at 36. With a hubby and young daughter. That floored me.
They have a lecture in her honor at Johns Hopkins.

[oldtrader]

I graduated from high school 66 years ago. So many of my class had died, that they decided in 2005 that would be the last high school reunion (I did not attend), as there were too few classmates still living. I did not attend, as people were either dead or did not want to travel to a remote part of the California Coast from around the country for sitting at one table in an Indian Casino for a no host reunion dinner, the only thing happening. I did not want to drive for 2 days each way, to attend, especially when they read me the list of known dead, the old friends I would have loved to see were all dead. The rest I had no interest in driving 4 days total, to visit with.

[Jay100]

Originally Posted by robertpasa

A few months ago, I searched for an old co-worker and discovered his Facebook page. I had not seen him in almost 20 years.

He posted something every few weeks and mentioned he was starting chemotherapy. One week, there weren't any posts for weeks.

I then Googled his name followed by "obit" and found he had died. This is happening more and more as I approach the age of fifty.

Something similar has happened to you?

Yes I have and it's never fun.

[don1945]

Yep. One time I googled the name of a man who mentored me and taught me a lot about business. We had lost touch for about 15 years, and I found his Obituary ! I felt horrible that I had not kept in touch with him for so long.

Don

[sbartek1974]

Originally Posted by sbartek1974

I died 5 years ago and my Facebook account is still open.

Originally Posted by theedgeoflight

as well as your city data account. So, tell me, what's it like on the "other side"?

It's cold. But I guess that's good, at least it's not hot.

[TrinaNYC]

I Googled my ex-husband and found his obituary. Also an old boss, whom I'd kept in touch with for over 20 years. He didn't respond to an email for a while (he had been using his work email address), so I Googled to see if maybe he'd changed jobs. Instead I found... yes, his obituary.

[goyguy]

I have.
And it always makes me wonder whether I might've been better off not knowing. It's yet another way that the Internet, Google, et al are a mixed blessing at best.

[rugrats2001]

Originally Posted by BadgerFilms

Well, not at that age yet, but when I DO get there!

There was someone who I knew (mostly my younger brother knew, they're the same age) who died after he was electrocuted at a power grid. I read it on the news online after noticing the lights in town were all out.

That's what YOU think. My daughter is 23 and she has had at least 5 friends from school die, so far.