After a death, do you delete the contact? Or let it sit in address book?

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.

I deleted it after I go to the wake. Otherwise, I just delete it.

I mean, why delete the contact? You could also demolish the headstone.

It costs you nothing to keep it in your phone as a memory.

My Xbox friend list has a slowly growing number of gamer tags that will never be online again

Climate change will be reversed and billionaires will be abolished before I delete my grandparents contacts from my phone. Every time I pass my grandpa's, I hear Hello young man, it's your grandfather. like he said every time we talked on the phone regardless of who called who.

I can understand those who don't feel the same way.

Keep it if you want, don't keep it if you don't.

But never forget the people.

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 .

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.

Yeah this is what I've done. I find it's a lovely reminder when I happen to be searching through my contacts and I stumble across their name. Instant memories.

I still have RiF installed on my phone. Does that answer your question?

As always, George Carlin has the right answers

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.

If they had a significant role in my life I'll leave them and add a yearly calendar event so that hopefully they don't die the second time, at least while I'm alive.

Keep it. I still have my uncle on Steam over 8 years later.

Absolutely I delete them. Can't have that kind of evidence lying around, loose ends sink careers.

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.

Huh... I- never considered this question.

My contacts list has been growing for 21 years. Very few people have caused me so much distress that I'd found removing them from my contacts to be worthwhile. I only found out about some of my friends deaths fairly recently.

On reflection, as I currently look through my contacts list I think removing the friends that have since passed would cause me more distress than leaving them in there. I won't be calling them.

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.

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.

I usually leave them. Not really sure why.

I let it stay untill I am ready to delete it.

When my grand parents died I kept the entry in my phonebook untill one day some time later when cleaning up the contacts I didn't see a reason why I should keep it.

I personally delete. Someone else will take that number anyways... I feel like there are so many other things to keep that remind us of whom we have lost

I leave them. I've even dialed the super close ones a couple of times over the years on purpose just to (anxiously) see if their numbers have been taken 😅

Both of my parents are dead. It looks like I deleted one and left one.

lol. clean out my contact list. so funny. like im going to get rid of the old number people I know used to have.

I have another address book I move them to that is a archive for past contacts. Past work contacts etc.. never had to go back to it, but good to know I can. Also don't have random people I have not contacted in 10 years still on my day to day address book.

I don’t think I’ve ever deleted a contact from my address book for any reason whatsoever

I just keep them, occasionally call the long dead numbers too which is kinda sad but whatever

i let it go. just like that disney princess song.

I delete it. For those people, I have more profound ways to contact them.