The immortality of your persona in the Internet
I got this in my email the other day, and it made me sad:
Marj is a friend from Canada (she migrated there around 1995) who I met over mIRC in 1998 and met in real-life around 2000. We lost touch after I started working in 2002. A month before my wedding in 2004, I asked a common friend for her number because she wasn’t answering my text messages in the one registered in my phone book.
That was when I got the shock of my life — our friend told me she had died of leukemia two months before.
