# Emails from The dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212 "2007-09-23T18:11:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212/21 "2007-09-24T12:22:51Z")
Around four years ago, a colleague of mine was murdered in a domestic dispute. He had emailed me at work the day before, and a slow network made it arrive after he’d died (albeit before we’d found out about the crime). ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212/22 "2007-09-24T13:38:25Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] For you perhaps. For Auntie Doris, rattling teacups and making the curtains billow is considerably simpler. [/QUOTE] I thought that being dead gave you _perspective_. If all being dead is good for is scaring cats and rearranging curtains, then I’d rather give it a miss. I’m hoping for knowledge of the ineffable ('cause I’d really need to know some things that I can’t eff, since I seem to spend my life finding things that I can). Si ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212/23 "2007-09-24T14:17:09Z")
I had something strange happen to me on Labor Day. That morning I was getting ready to go watch the parade that was happening in my town. Before I left I checked my e-mail and found a facebook request from a friend of mine. I had created a facebook account months before but had forgotten all about it until getting the friend request from her. I approved the friend request and went downtown to watch the parade. About an hour-and-a-half later, I got a call from my husband that the same friend I’d approved the request from had been found dead earlier that morning. When I approved the request she was already gone. It was really strange afterward to visit her facebook page and see that I’d approved the request about two-and-a-half hours after she was found. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212/24 "2007-09-24T15:27:57Z")
The subject calls up a niggling memory of a magazine article (Readers Digest?) from when I was maybe ten years old; it had to do with phone calls made by the dead. IIRC, the calls usually occurred within minutes after the time of death. Being a paranoid little brat who was terrified of death, I refused to answer the phone for a while after the article appeared. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212/25 "2007-09-24T15:38:39Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] So, has anyone ever a received an email from a person who is deceased? 😕 [/QUOTE] Well, I sent an email to a dead guy. Does that count? My sister lived with a guy I graduated with for almost 10 years. He died of complications from kidney failure. They had a lot of bills at the time of his death, and she didn’t have the money to buy a suit to bury him in. So I gave her one of mine. Fast forward to about eight years ago, and I was registered on the [Classmates.com](http://Classmates.com) website. I see that someone else from our class had newly registered on that site. Lo and behold, it’s my sister’s dead boyfriend. I sent him an email congratulating him on his recovery, and asked if I could have the suit back we buried him in. My sister and I also lodged complaints with the website’s PTB, and that account was canceled fairly quick. But I never received a reply email. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212/26 "2007-09-24T15:56:43Z")
One of the last things John F Kennedy Jr did before leaving his office on Friday, July 16, 1999 was to e-mail a co-worker, who got the message the Monday morning after JFK Jr’s death. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212/27 "2007-09-24T22:29:07Z")
Our work email is, and has been for years, plagued by viruses or malware or whatever you call it; every day all of us get a bunch of emails that purport to be from co-workers but really aren’t. Like the sender will be _Marlitharn Lastname_ and the subject line will say “Important! Please read!” but when you open it up it’s from that poor destitute Nigerian guy who keeps begging everyone for help. So a few months after my supervisor passed away, one of my co-workers opened her inbox and found a new email from the dead lady. It was spam, of course, but it still gave her quite a turn - especially because the subject line said something about Snoopy, and this co-worker was a huge Snoopy fan. _\_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emails-from-the-dead/420212.md?page=1)