I Text Dead People…

Ongoing digital communication to those who leave us behind

Jim Farina
Sep 5, 2018 · 7 min read

Apparently there are a lot more people who maintain a digital communication with deceased friends and family members than I had realized.

I suspected that I wasn’t unique in sending periodic text messages to a friend who had passed on from this life. My friend and co-worker, Chuck, died suddenly and at way…

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Musings from a Midwestern Mind. Impressions of life, death and everything in between.

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