Members who have passed away

I disagree Gus. I knew Marty. He was a retired firefighter and paramedic. I know he had his faults, but I like seeing his profile and his mark here. He would have liked this. We had talked about it. At the end of his life he was battling homelessness. Imagine that! A man who had saved hundreds of lives in emergency situations. Marty did have a home at the end with his dear dog. Just like others who have died. We keep their memories alive. Wraithorn. The others. All live still because of our memories.

Just have an "In Memoriam" badge showing or something. It's all about respect. Other sites do that, why not SW?

How can they verify that a member has passed away though?

I suppose admin have to be officially told if a user passes. I dont suppose a mate saying so is official enough? Would you need proof??
Coz....we all know folk here that died who weren't really dead!!

When I see their av I think it's nice to remember them...they were here and they'll always be part of us 🌹

Well, we have had many different senarios in the past where a user is reported dead by 'a friend or relative' popping up on their accoubt and telling us tbey have died. I find this suss... as I know I personally wouldn't leave my SW acc accessable to anyone else! Even if it were genuine, most of us would question. Its happened here a few times for me to know of.
We've had new accounts pop up claiming to be members family/ friend telling us of the users passing..... did we believe them? Where they genuine?
We've even had other members been given access to the deceased persons account (must have been before they died? They knew they were dying??) All very questionable, and as few of us know peoples real names here, even posting their genuine obituary here as proof would not convince the majority of us.
I have one friend here who has access me on other socials who would be able to pass on news if i popped my clogs. Other than that.....i"d just dissapear into cyber space......

It really kind of depresses me. Two that passed where very dear to me and every time I see them up there I get a little sad.

It's very depressing to see that

maybe more than just weeks ago. My life has e take long breaks from here,
and do we KNOW MrMoose is decced?
many people just ghost away.
i recently encountered here, a friend away for more than a year

Ikr it really hurts the days im sad its like being thrown into a graveyard without permission

I wish the admins would set it up to not display any account that was last seen weeks ago.

Agreed but oh well. If I complain then they remove it to punish me so I won’t.

If a profile has been inactive for a year or so?, then the profile could be removed permanently.
Should the person come back then they could set up a new account.
This could be stipulated in the terms of Service.

I think it's kinda hard to see who passed and who didn't, it's a bit like facebook and probably too much to deal with. Also you never know if users really do die or if they just disappear. I'm sure that you personally know that some users die but some just go away.

There's no real way of knowing that about an account. Unless they decide to take it down after a certain amount of time as inactive.

Yeah, a lot of my friends are in there. They should go into like a hall of fame

How do you know they have passed away

R.I.P. Marty🎚️🪷

It would be sufficient to just get rid of the floaty head bar
(or use a browser extension like uBlock Origin to hide it yourself, that's what I did)

It would be almost impossible for a site this small to truly verify that every user had actually died

Simple solution; delete all inactive accounts from at least 6 months ago