So your contacts, how many dead people are still in it?

I nearly started just this thread recently. 238 contacts, there were 3 deceased in there.

Just 2 for me, I like still having them in the phone so wont be deleting them.

Dead to me or actually dead? I'll need to have a good trawl through, but last time I checked, it was 0 and 2.

Dead to me or actually dead

Funny you mention that, I have 2 numbers in my phone that are only there so I know not to answer if they ever phone me.

About 80 contacts but none dead, hopefully.

I will have one soon as my sister has terminal cancer and I've already thought about whether I would delete the contact, but I really don't think I could. I think I'll like seeing her name every now and then even though it will upset me immensely.

3-4. 2 being parents

Just went through my contacts at the weekend and had 3 dead from about 100 contacts. Found a text message from my best mate who died suddenly 11 months ago, can’t bear to delete it.

Also Strava and Facebook. A couple of long time friends and running buddies...

MIL's Christmas card list had to be edited each year for the 'dead' - was at least 50%. We 'maintained' it for about 8 years after FIL passed. We'd print the list, she'd go through it, then we'd move the 'no longer with us', or 'I'm not sending them a card' to the next page on the word doc. We dare not get rid of the address though.

Unfortunately, she joined the 'list' herself this year so it's one less job to do.

I did this exercise a few weeks ago. Cleared about 5 out and then got to my best mate who died a few years ago from Bowel cancer aged 39. I couldn't delete him. Daft isn't it?

Two, mother and sister. They won't be deleted.

Yeah deleting my Dad was .... Tough

I still have answering machine messages from my dad saved in a Dropbox folder somewhere. They will never get deleted.

As for contacts, my other hobby is skydiving. You get used to losing friends in that. Three this year sadly, several more the years before, several the year before that... Shit, I don't want to count.

At least two. I won't delete them as we shared one particular definitive experience. Nice to remember them when I see their names.

I couldn’t delete him. Daft isn’t it?

No, it's very human. I've got two or three including one who's funeral isn't for another week.

For obvious reasons the deceased on my phone have tended to be elderly people so didn't really communicate via WhatsApp, but my very good MTB riding buddy from Aberdeenshire who died from bowel cancer about 7 months ago did, I've just checked and it's all still there including his profile picture and the last message he sent me, I'm not sure if there will reach a point when it will all disappear?

None; when they die I delete them - as God has done.

Sadly, I have a few. I still have my mum's last voicemail message not long before she passed away from Covid just before xmas '20.

I can't bring myself to delete her number.

Just counted them, 5 in total (although 3 are family - dad, grandad and cousin)

Just scrolled through and 11 of 382.

3 are my wife 🙁

None. I did delete my late partner, but the only info there was her mobile number which she never answered anyway, and she lived with me anyway. Still got her mum’s details, but we keep in touch anyway.

I went through my deleted iPhone voicemails the other day and found one from my dad (who died in 2019) it was the one where he called me “a failure as a son and as a man”, so I deleted it properly this time.

Just one. Not intentionally still there, but if I catch his name when I'm scrolling past I have a little chuckle.

Lovely guy, met in the village pub - mate and I used to pop in after a night ride, met Pete and his dog out for their evening walk on there most nights, then him and his wife got involved with Scouts through their son. Taken by cancer 3-4 years ago, far too soon, same age as me.

Bumped into his wife the other day at a village event, she's doing OK.

Pleasantly morbid topic this one! 🤔

Anyway... 2, possibly 3 (I'd need to find out about the 3rd, I won't be so direct as to text the number to ask if they're dead or not!) out of about 350 contacts...

I have few. I keep them in a group; keeping them helps remind me to check in on other friends.

I still have some FB messages & whatsapps from a few of them. Mostly they're just memories of some great times together.

Just my grandad. His is one of only 5 people's phone numbers I know off by heart.

I've got two. One is my neighbour who passed last year, the other is my best mate from Uni, who committed suicide in our 2nd year. Just can't bring myself to delete it and always remember the nonsense we got up to, clear as a whistle 19 years later.

Just one, my brother.

Still have his text message too on the last day I saw him alive thanking me for the card I handed him as we parted company at the station and saying he’d ordered a new graphic novel on his way home later that day.

That's one to never delete Creg!

If I told you that, you might be able to work out who's next. I like to leave it as a surprise.

5 for me, bit surprised about that. They can stay on there, looking at them just now brought back some good memories.

That's why I'm reluctant to edit mine down. Like Dickbarton I do keep numbers of people who are "dead to me" to avoid talking to ****s.

Just one for me and that is my father-in-law.

He died almost 5 years ago now, but I can't bring myself to deleting his number from my phone.

Lots: got my best mate in there who died in 2001, and a host of ex girlfriends, bosses and mates who are dead to me. I can only block them by keeping their number.

just 2 out of ~600.
A very good friend who died in his sleep a few years ago, his child was born about a fortnight after his funeral. Still brings a tear to my eye.

And a friend from way back when, had cancer 3 or 4 times over the years, lost track of her and sort of fell out of contact after i emigrated and she went through a messy divorce. Then the last bout of cancer took her about 5 years ago. Found out when someone posted about a one year memorial for her.