SL friends that died in RL?

I am curious has anyone known a Avatar that person behind it died in Real Life or said they were going to die and did?
Just curious.

two of my friends have gone.


I think like RL, its fairly common you see memorials in lots of places.

I expect many people go without anyone online knowing though.

Colette, my condolences for your loss of those friends.

This brings another question to my mind though: how many people actually have some kind of contingency plan to let people in SL (and other online venues) know if they die.

I love this thread

Last year lost 7 friends on sl that passed away

I hate to bring a negative into this, but I want to share one of the realities of SL...

Knew someone amongst a group of friends. He had a partner in SL he had grown very attached to and had planned to leave his wife and meet up with her with the expectation that it would be a permanent thing. Suddenly he died. A large memorial service was held for him.

I think you know where this is going. Of course, it was later found out he didn't die. It all got to be too much of a tangled mess and he took the easy route out of it and showed up later as an alt.

Other than that, I haven't known anyone personally who has died but I have seen some beautiful memorials.

Yeah this kind of thing is as old as chat rooms and the internet.

Sort of the modern version of Tom Sawyer seeing his own funeral.

Thank you for responding.
I am really sorry for your loss Collete and Usagi.
I know there are avatars here in sl who have long term illness, some terminal
so it would make sense that some might die.
Yet I wonder if some do it as roleplay, and if they do this why? Isn't this bit cruel?
I brought this up because in recent month I made new friend.
I showed her around one of my hang outs.
We talked a little, that day I was feeling poorly in real life and she mentioned she also
had health problems.
I took few days off when I returned she had become tight with a lot of my friends
and I was told she had maybe few weeks to live.
The whole thing felt really strange but I couldn't put my finger on it.
I kept getting reports she was in and out of the hospital, yet I would see her login,etc.
Friends would say well she it's her Mother giving reports to this one "friend" or
she going in and out of hospital every day.
I thought about what I would do and people I have known in real life with terminal illness
who have died and just something felt off but I thought perhaps I am just being
jaded, mistrustful and overly suspicious or just uncomfortable because of my own
real life stuff I am going through.
I haven't said anything to friends except few I know who wouldn't be mad at me
for being so judgmental.
The person didn't seem to want anything and seem to be pretty quite around me when
we all were together but I mention this to a old time SL friend and she mentioned
people do this sometimes for attention,etc.
I just curious if anyone else on forum has experienced this.
Any way when I die or things worsen health wise that I can't login there is no one who is going to come in my account and report this to my friends unless my boyfriend in rl mentions something on my blog but he really dislikes SL.
Though he somewhat warming up to my friends in SL.

we have a memorial in world for this such thing already its called the remembering our friends memorial..its in cassandra..we do free memorial stones for anyone that gives us a name of someone in here that has passed rl ,if this interests you please send me a notecard with persons name and a few nice words..we have about 20 so far,and its really nice.We are hoping to one day have everyone.everyone is welcome.like i say no charge im me for info or landmark.or just join the group remembering our friends,rhapsody rutherford is also doing a website to tie into this.our friends here are real people its like losing a family member when one passes why not remember them for future sl generations.

Stay away from me, Musashi.

I would say..... hope that you get no one, that would mean no one is passing on...

I knew 1 person from SL who died.

I also had a memorial for my 1st cat at my shop. I loved that cat. I still call my other cat by the old one's name.

wow

Sorry to hear about that hun, thats a lot of tragedy to endure in a years time especially.

OMG - I just don´t get some people... That´s really an awful thing to do. Disgusting.

As I always say - there´s some people just playing the game and there´s the ones being themselves... But the ones playing the game should be at least fair and let the others know. Shows character...

we do hope that no one passes but there is alot that already have..we just want thier names so they can be memorialized we hope noone passes.

The longer you in the game the more people you met. Thats how it becomes that large Its not a joke.

recently a clothing designer died in rl..his partners are placing all items on a sell out..great stuff..real cheap..Ginny Tamalsca?..Last Call clothing..great stuff..very sad to go there and see what a wonderful mind this person had and now theyre gone.

~Lana Tomba

The estate owner of my first island parcel I had 'bought" passed away suddenly at a young age (I believe 46).

I have a friend I met back in July...I won't mention his name..cause he's luckily still alive.
He dropped off the radar totally..abruptly..we were getting on famously..he had sung for me on a boardwalk..and told me he was buying me a B-Day gift.

3 Months later he mysteriously logs back in..tells me he was in a bad motorcycle accident and almost didn't live..had just come out of coma. He had all these weird gifts in his backpack..couldn't remember who they went to...couldn't remember any of our time together He realised thru our re aquaintenance that one of the books he had (that was totally not him) he had meant to give to me for my B day..so he sent it Fed Ex.

But still..it's like he died...all his short term memory is gone..he remembers old SL friends..but not me. I don't know how get to know him again..when we first met it was like a whirlwind romance?..sortve?.....and now..well it seems forced...I don't want him to feel as if he has to act a certain way because of expectations on my end so I let him be and do his own thing..I think of him often though.

~Lana Tomba

Hands touch.
Eyes meet.
Some silence.
Sudden heat.
Hearts leap in a giddy world.
He could be that boy...but..
I'm not that girl
Don't dream too far.
Don't lose site of who you are.
Don't remember that rush of joy.
He could be that boy...
I'm not that girl.
Every so often we long to steal...to land on what might have been.
But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.
Lifes smile.
Live limb.
She is windsome..she wins him.
Gold hair with a gentle curl.
That's the girl He chose...
and Heaven knows,
I'm not that girl.
Don't wish.
Don't start.
Wishing only wounds the heart.
I wasn't born for the rose and the pearl.
There's a girl I know...
He loves her so....
I'm not that girl.
(Lyrics from the musical "Wicked"

Good question. It came up last night in a conversatioon with a girl who had recently attended a memorial service for an SL friend who had died. She'd previously asked me to put a note on paper by the computer in case it happens to me. I'm not on the way out, btw.

Almost everyone has people who would want to know, and people who would be almost desperate to know, and I think that making arrangements to inform certain people must be a good thing.

Traffic accidents....

Well, not in my SL something like this happened. But it did in the time I played Ultima Online.

We had a very active player in our guild. Many hours per day online. From one day to another she didn't log in anymore.
At first we thought that she was maybe away on a holiday and forgot to tell us. But when weeks turned in to months, we started to realize that something was wrong. She didn't show up on ICQ. Mails were not answered (I used to exchange a lot of mails with her).

After 5 months I got a mail from her partner. He brought the bad news that our friend had died in a car accident. For all this time he could not push himself to touch her computer. When he finally did, he found my mails asking her what was wrong. And he thought I should know what happened.

It is wierd and sad, we can loose online friends and never know what happened.

Morwen.

almost makes me wanna cry to think about it but i live in a very rural area.....noone to speak of like a partner or anything..distant cousins but no family who knows enough about a computer or my life to know where and who to contact. If i kick it no online friends will ever know..I wish i could change that.

~Lana Tomba

My RL family is also on SL. If anything happened to me, they would let my online friends know.

But this is something I had worried about in the past, before they got online with me.

if it were abrupt or unexcpected yea theres nothing i could do.. I have known people with terminal illnesses here who made sure everyone knew that they were going to pass..I'd wait til the very last minute to tell my friends but i'd let them know when i realised i couldn't log on anymore.

I wouldnt want people treating me differently..although they would prolly think I had gone crazy..trying to experience everything different and new as much as I possibly could
I should do that anyways...but well ...we really don't appreciate what he have until it's gone...like youth

~Lana Tomba