Do you delete numbers off your phone when someone dies?

I delete from my phone and address book but not from Facebook. There are, sadly, several Facebook friends who have died but somehow I can't bring myself to let them go.

** dear, not fear.

My fear friend and sis-in-law died three years ago from breast cancer that travelled to her brain. I have some very happy pics taken in the hospice. It was one afternoon we managed to get her into the car and together with my brother/her husband we all went to the cinema.

I have copied this photo over to the pc (for safekeeping) but just can't bring myself to click delete on my phone.

I delete them because otherwise, it upsets me to see the name coming up - a reminder that they are gone.

I still have my Mum's number in my hone. She died almost 5 years ago but I can't delete. I still have the last birthday card she sent me and put it up along with other cards received each year. I find it comforting.

A good friend died a year ago, and I haven't the heart to delete her from my Facebook friends.

Today I am trying not to look at all my mobile phones but want to so much, there will be several years of Mothering Sunday greetings from my beloved daughter .

There’s no rights or wrongs here are there? We all do what is right for us. I’m a keeper not deleter.

I cant see a problem with deleting numbers but would find it hard to delete texts/emails etc. I still have (handwritten) letters from my parents.
So sorry to hear about your son's death Coast. . Also Anniebach, Misadventure and all others who have lost children - today must be very hard.

I’ve kept emails to my FIL and my Dad and two sisters are still on my phone. It’s like deleting them. Silly really.

Do we remove them? Yes. There is no need to keep reminders where they are unnecessary and may be dialled in error. Telephone numbers are simply a transitory method of communication.

I still have my Dad's email address and he passed away 13 years ago. Still can't delete it. Also my mum's phone number and she passed 2 years ago. It doesn't bother me that I still have them and find comfort from that. It doesn't hurt anyone else either. Do what's best for you x

I have Facebook friends who have died far too young. I had a birthday reminder for one this week which was quite upsetting. I think the only way to stop this would be to unfriend then but I can’t bring myself to do that.

Still have my sons phone number on my mobile phone. Even have a number of other things what the police returned to us.

When my Mum and Dad died my brother and I cleared the house. He was less emotional than me. I couldn't throw away their passports and have kept them since. I could probably just about dispense with them now though. You can't keep everything and in the future, it will be our passports that are the issue!

Finding it so depressing when sending Christmas cards to see a deceased partner's name crossed out I decided to write all entries in my new address book in pencil and erase and re-enter as appropriate. Also it's very useful with so many other changes, i.e. people moving house or getting married.

Yes I do delete numbers. Always a bit sad to do but clearly I won't be using them again and I don't need a number on my phone to remember the person I have lost. We are all different though.

My Sister died last year from Cancer. She was on a trial that seemed to be working and the last text I got from her the night before she died saying how good she was feeling I have kept along with all the others we exchanged, I don't think I could ever get rid of them.

IT took me 4 years to delete my mum’s phone number...but I needed to do it. Although I still have her specs and her old front door key.The key was on a lion key fob ...my new grandson took a liking to the key +fob so it was an excuse to keep it.Now my granddaughter plays ‘house’ with it. Don’t know what I’ll do when she no longer plays with it!?

I too find it far to painful to have phone numbers and addresses of those I have lost. So usually sometime during the first month after a death, I delete phone number from my phone, e-mail address from my accounts and delete name, address and phone number from my address book. Otherwise I feel like crying, or do so, every time I see their name.

However, we are all, mercifully, different and I can well understand that others find it too painful to delete as even for me it feels as if I am somehow delete the person from the land of the living when I delete names and phone numbers.

I find it more painful to keep them than to delete them. To me it's only a number, the person isn't in there.

Why do you keep phone numbers. You're not going to be able to phone them . Memories will do for me.

Coincidentally, I deleted a late close friend's e Mail address from my contact list yesterday. She died in 2009. Hard to give up connections.

Such a sensitive and individual choice to make. An old family friend who used FaceBook died a few years ago but annually his picture comes up reminding us it is his birthday and would we like to send him greetings. I find this difficult to see and wish his family would take him off FB as it seems disrespectful in a way but then again I can understand how they do not wish to 'delete' him. A dilemma of the modern technological age we find ourselves in. My heartfelt sympathies to those of you who have lost loved ones, particularly children.

Can’t bring my self to delete Mums number, even though I know the people who bought her house.