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When your deceased friend's messaging app shows their final activity timestamp

My best friend's WhatsApp still shows last seen three months ago when she died and I keep checking it like maybe the time will update and she will have come back online.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital timestamps can become monuments to the exact moment life ended, creating obsessive focal points for grief.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media memorialization?”

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