LJ Morbidity

[talktooloose]

Have you ever tracked an LJ death? I've never directly known anyone on LJ who has died, but every time I hear about one in an extended flist network or a community, I can't stop myself going back and reading through their last months, their profile, their flist's reaction, etc.

Sometimes they are half of an LJ couple and I get sucked into reading the grieving partner's blog both leading up to and after the death.

The lastest was a gay couple in Australia who have several kids. The one who died (at 30! after a brief illness) was actually from Vancouver but had moved to Oz with his partner where they'd started their family.

I guess it's because I'm so used to inferring the lives behind the minutiae of LJ entries that I find LJ death so poignant and obsessively interesting.

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[rfmcdpei.livejournal.com]

Two children, one four and one two?

The first LJer I knew of who died, I think, was angelsboi.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

I don't know the ages of their kids as they didn't like to post on them for reasons of privacy. They weren't on my flist, but one of them (the survivor) was on the flists of other friends of mine so I came across him a lot.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I've had any deaths yet, but some disappearances that have bothered me...