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One of my best friends is in hospice. I'm fairly certain that yesterday I received the last text I'll ever get from him. Been looking at it all day trying to will another one to come through.
Now that cellphones and texting are so pervasive, what do people do with old text threads when they lose a loved one? How about the contact? I can't imagine even removing him from my "favorites" list, but I know I have to eventually.
Unfortunately due to his cancer our contact has mostly been through text for almost two years. We spoke almost daily but I would erase my texts every so often (I text a lot for work), so our thread only goes back to early October. I wish I had more.
Last year I lost a cousin to cancer. In many ways he was more like a brother to me when we were kids. My younger sister, my cousin and I were quite the threesome. I was the oldest. He was born 6 months later. My sister 6 months after that.
We lost touch for years as adults. He had some addiction issues. We reconnected a few years ago. I keep our last "luv you cuz" messages. I can't get rid of them.
Just watch with saving texts messages. When my wife and I got new phones a month or so ago, I hadn't ever deleted any of my texts in the few years I had the old phone. When they have to transfer all my data from old to new phones. I had to leave my phones at the phone store for an hour and a half for all those texts to get transferred. So don't save too many texts.
Last year I lost a cousin to cancer. In many ways he was more like a brother to me when we were kids. My younger sister, my cousin and I were quite the threesome. I was the oldest. He was born 6 months later. My sister 6 months after that.
We lost touch for years as adults. He had some addiction issues. We reconnected a few years ago. I keep our last "luv you cuz" messages. I can't get rid of them.
I'm sorry about your cousin. Your story is like mine. I am the oldest of 9, the first brother being 11 years younger than me. My cousin and I have been attached at the hip for better or worse since around 8 years old.
Airborneguy, if you're worried about losing special texts, you can screenshot them and save them to your photo albums. Hopefully photos are backed up somewhere else or saved in the cloud. You could even make a folder in photos for your friend and save text screenshots, pictures, his contact info, and whatever else to make sure it's safe and in a special place.
I'm sorry about your cousin. Your story is like mine. I am the oldest of 9, the first brother being 11 years younger than me. My cousin and I have been attached at the hip for better or worse since around 8 years old.
I keep my mom's number. There were no texts. My sister deleted it about a week after she died. She doesn't like to think about unhappy events. She started doing this after her 16 year old son died after huffing years ago. Decades, and she still can't talk about it.
John Prine. Souvenirs. But I like graveyards and old pawn shops.
One of my best friends is in hospice. I'm fairly certain that yesterday I received the last text I'll ever get from him. Been looking at it all day trying to will another one to come through.
Now that cellphones and texting are so pervasive, what do people do with old text threads when they lose a loved one? How about the contact? I can't imagine even removing him from my "favorites" list, but I know I have to eventually.
Unfortunately due to his cancer our contact has mostly been through text for almost two years. We spoke almost daily but I would erase my texts every so often (I text a lot for work), so our thread only goes back to early October. I wish I had more.
This is sad Airborneguy, sorry to hear it. What I do is take a screenshot of my texts and save them to my email. That way if my phone stops working, I still have important texts that mean something to me. You could even print them from email.
When I changed phones I lost my history of texts and calls with my deceased husband. Oh well. I think they would have just depressed me anyway. His contact information, minus his cell phone number, is still in my phone though.
As long as your phone's wifi is on, you can copy text/photos and paste onto Word or Open Office, etc. When I’m home, I much prefer reading and responding on a normal keyboard and large screen, especially ongoing conversations that I need to save.
Last edited by ohmanon; 11-06-2021 at 05:43 PM..
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