Delete dead friends.

[soaps]

Do you find it hard to delete dead friends or relatives from your phone?
I find it hard to do, it just feels like I'm putting them to death again.

[DTCwordfan]

could always cremate your phone.......

[ljdksa]

Yes! I still have my Gran's number on my mobile. She died 18 months ago and I can't bring myself to delete her number.

[jackthehat]

My friends and family aren't dying regularly enough for me to do this............

[boxtops]

I don't keep numbers on my landline phone so I've never had to do this. I'm glad to say that all the people on my mobile are still very much with us.

[anneasquith]

yes,a friend died 6 months ago and i only just deleted her home phone number last week.

[tiggerblue10]

I don't have anyone deceased on my mob but I do have on FB.

[Jan1957]

I came across a friend on FB who died just over a year ago and I couldn't bring myself to delete him. Just didn't seem right.

[sherrardk]

I couldn't delete my mother or my grandfather from my phone last year and felt that my husband would think I was bonkers if I asked him to do it. I left them on the house phone until December (when we got new ones) and I changed my mobile some time in the year. Did have to delete a message from my grandfather asking me how I was (a couple of weeks after my mother died) and within a fortnight he was gone too.

[ummmm]

Yep...still have my dead relatives in my phone :-(

[DTCwordfan]

Mine are off - after a reasonable amount of time usually around the New Year

[Prudie]

I still have my dead mother's on my mobile. I also have a thing about not deleting my very nearest from answerphone messages.

[society]

I have many emails from Whiffey and in a strange way they have sentimental meaning. I'd never get rid of them.

[boxtops]

I still keep letters from my late parents, particularly the last cards and letters which I received from my mum before she died eight years ago.

[soaps]

It seem there is quite a few of us that cant "delete"... That's OK! so I'm not alone, I guess as long as you have room in the phone for the living, but if they start clogging up the phone, then I guess it's OK to delete.............I just dont want to feel bad about deleting.

[welshlibranr]

Never happened to me yet thankfully, but I think I would struggle with it too!....

[Andyvon]

It reminds me of one of the biggest shocks of my life which I had a month after my mother died.

For some reason I had to ring my step-father to ask him some question ( which I never got to ask). His phone rang about five times - and then my mother answered and was talking to me! She'd been dead a month! It took me a few moments to realise what had happened. My step-father was out and he still hadn't deleted my mother's message from the answerphone! I was so stunned I just put the phone down and never did ask the question. It was also the last time I heard my mother's voice.

It is a good idea to delete things like that.

[welshlibranr]

Me too boxtops!...........still have the last Xmas card from my lovely Mum, she died 10 years ago, still miss her so much!..........I put her card up with others every year!.........

[society]

I quite understand what you mean, Prudie.

I still have a message from my departed dad on an answering machine and I'd never delete it. I'm so afraid of accidentally deleting that message, I turned off that machine, and got another.