With the age of the game, statistically there are a great number of us who have lost people we’ve played with. What do you do? Do you leave them on your friend list forever or let them get deleted? Do you do anything in game to memorialize them?
I am looking forward to player housing, and I hope they include memorials. For now, they’re on my friend list forever. It’s nice to sit and remember them, but sad to see how long it’s been since they last logged in. I have two people who were very important to me who will never log in again. 
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we were raiding Siege of Orgrimmar when we found out our friend, officer and heal lead had passed. his in-game name was Winsome and there was an item called “Cord of Winsom Sorrows” from Highmaul I think.
I still have it in the guildbank to this day. and while he wasn’t on my friends list, his characters are all still in-guild. I can’t bring myself to remove them.
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i see no reason to remove them from your friendslist. i still have a friend added on steam who passed away 10 years ago 
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I had my brother on friends until it became unknow (random numbers)
He was the only one I gave an F about.
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This is about the sweetest thing, and it has a sad but very good story. Your guild has charm and culture.
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A friend of mine passed away suddenly in October 2023. As a tank main, I met her through pugs and a Discord community. She always pumped my tires, made me a better player and tank. She was a healer main. She was so friendly, and made me less toxic, I used to have a chip on my shoulder and her kindness and patience really rubbed off on me. She’s still on my friends list and it makes me sad I’ll never see her log in again.
As for memorializing her or doing something in her memory/honor, I named a character after her and made them look identical to her Zandalari troll. I’ll never play that character, but they’re there on my character list as a reminder to the friendship we had.
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OH this is great! Why did I not think of this? It wouldn’t be me trying to be them - it would be me keeping a character in honor of them. Thank you for sharing your story, and I hope you’re “paying it forward” when it comes to helping others be less toxic.
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I was thinking about that. Having memorials in the housing.
30,000 or so players a year.
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I did it because after awhile of not logging into a character, you can’t search them anymore. So I never wanted to forget, ya know? I didn’t name them the same identical name, I used French words instead of English. Her name will be released eventually, and I’ll probably try to reserve it so its never used by anyone else on that server.
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whatever you feel is best. no one here can really tell you the proper way to say goodbye.
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When it comes to online interactions, I’m always thinking about how I’d even know that someone had passed away versus just not logging in anymore. For all I know, this could already apply to some of the folks on my friend list but there isn’t really a way to find out for sure.
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Not battlenet, but i do still send my sister jokes in FB messenger.
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Copy/paste THIS into youtube…
Warcraft Funeral Crash
?v=M_og14JAlBk
I cant believe its up with the original music, it got deleted last time i looked.
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I had a RL friend that passed in 2022 that still has a character in me and my wife’s little alt guild. Same situation. Will not be removing them.
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I keep mine on my friends list.
My son passed away in 2018. we played together all the time.
His character is always on my battle.net app for me to see every day.
I also have a character named for him.
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That’s actually a cool concept. Maybe a headstone or statue of their character that when clicked opens their achievement pane. I’m not even a housing fan but that would be cool
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I made a personalized note for one of my IRL and Diablo friends who died around a decade ago.
Always hits me in the feels when I hover over his name in my friend’s list.
Sorry for your loss 
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I leave them in my friend list. They didn’t stop being my friend just because they died, and seeing them there reminds me of all the good times we had. Or I can think of it as they’re just logged off for now.
Been to more than one in-game funeral I don’t know if they still happen, but insert cranky old person voice back in my day, when servers were stand-alone and RP was still alive and kicking, we’d have in-game funerals. Some would be small, just a few friends or a guild, some would be damn near all the server, Horde and Alliance. It was a good way to come together and celebrate the person who had logged out for the last time.
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I made a alt for my passed away dad, named him his nickname(cuy). He now is a level 80 warrior. He was a warrior, he worked a lot of overtime on his job, and provided greatly for us. He did a lot of work for our church and on our house…
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