Widows & Widowers Support Group
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Not sure if there is already a topic about this or not but if there is let me know.
For those that their spouses had social accounts or email accounts that they you have access too , what do you do with them.
On his facebook I just changed the name to "Memory of his name"
his email account he still receives mainly junk now but I havet deleted it yet because that's where he use to get his payroll and other important stuff and also its where me and I was dealing with his final insurance stuff at through his email.
Has anyone yet decided to delete spouses accounts or usernames etc on social media.
I have his email logged into my phone and when receives an email I start unsubscribing to things to try to help down size the subscriptions that come to it.
For those that their spouses had social accounts or email accounts that they you have access too , what do you do with them.
On his facebook I just changed the name to "Memory of his name"
his email account he still receives mainly junk now but I havet deleted it yet because that's where he use to get his payroll and other important stuff and also its where me and I was dealing with his final insurance stuff at through his email.
Has anyone yet decided to delete spouses accounts or usernames etc on social media.
I have his email logged into my phone and when receives an email I start unsubscribing to things to try to help down size the subscriptions that come to it.
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I find myself going places in the car and not wanting to get out of the car. I come back home and I don't want to get out of the car. I think it's the only time I spend reflecting. Chronic tiredness from Long Covid plus the immunosupressing meds for my Crohn's is slowing me down but everything just seems a massive effort. I am dealing with the paperwork following my father's death but it's not...
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He died suddenly. His partial list of passwords was outdated. the most important ones not written.
His email was AOL, with no password anywhere.
I still have to get his Apple iPhone disconnected. was hoping to save photos on there. don't know how or if I can. but I need to end that bill.
Reality has been very slow sinking in emotionally. It's hard letting go of things that I can't salvage data from.
He managed everything himself, and did it as though he would be here forever.
You may may need a death certificate when you cancel his service, so they don't charge you for early termination.
My daughter still uses her moms e-mail so didn't get rid of that, and my wife didn't have any social media that I am aware of - I think she tried to set up a facebook account once but never did it.
Rachel
His iPhone is still active. I use it to take pictures. It is his work phone but they havent turned it off; they just disabled his email. He had personal stuff sent to that email, so a lot has been lost...
I find it interesting that no one has called his number. It seems like the world has already forgotten him, which makes me sad. But life goes on.
Im afraid to cancel some of his credit cards that are attached to airline miles...if I tell them that he is dead, will they take away his miles? I dont like paying the $95 annual fees, but Id hate to lose his hard-earned miles. For now, I have no travel plans...
Sort of proves to me that from Facebook's perspective we are just data points they sell on to other companies. Even if the person is dead they can still sell it.
I was able to close the MySpace account I think.
There are predators who use obituary accounts than get into social media using information to use their names etc for illegal purpose. It did happen 3 years later but I had sent his obituary to the credit bureau and they alerted me and stopped it