Aside from being contacted by a family member or maybe some sort of contact information being left in a will, how do you discover if someone you know has died?
Aside from being contacted by a family member or maybe some sort of contact information being left in a will, how do you discover if someone you know has died?
You can’t know unless someone tells you or you go seek this information yourself. Another way besides contacting people or looking for an obituary is lurk on social media, if you know that person’s relatives and friends you may find some kind of mention or post about it. That is, if they also have you as a contact or if they make the post public.
Figures. So for online friends you’re pretty much hopeless?
Unless you have shared connections or know who they are to search for an obit, yes.
When my best friend, that I had met online but we also got together in real life, killed himself, his mother called me to let me know. I in turn got in touch with as many of our old EverQuest and World of Warcraft friends as I could to let them know.