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I was in the library today, and a boy passed by who for a few moments looked identical to a friend of mine who killed himself a few years ago. I was really spooked.

Do you often see people you know are dead? See them in the faces and gaits of passing strangers?

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yep.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haley Joel Osment to thread!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, see, I mean dead people among the living, as if they hadn't died. People you knew.

New anguished answers.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

As I said, yep. Barbara Eversley, nice girl, liked her a lot, had a lisp, was nice to everyone. Car crash. Thinking about it I seem to see her around a lot. Keith MacKenzie, good friend of my mums, just get the general impression of him a lot.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

No offence meant btw, I just never really read the question.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

dan p's funeral:
one of my friends wore his face
I blinked; it was gone

― Haikunym, Friday, 1 August 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm stealing that.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Once or twice, I've "seen" a friend (not a close one, but someone who was part of one of my groups of friends in college) who died on 9/11. But I don't think that necessarily has anything to do with her death. I "see" living people I know all the time.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

no.
my friend (the dead one) was like my best friend for many many years and i've never for a second mistook anyone/anything for him – i think i would cry if i saw anyone that resembled him but i knew him to well to mistake strangers

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

my friend named Sam died.
I named my son Sam and we
all three love Jailbreak

― Haikunym, Friday, 1 August 2003 00:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Never do, which is kinda sad.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

This happens to me about once a month and it makes me feel, for lack of a better phrase, quite warm and happy.

― cybele (cybele), Friday, 1 August 2003 05:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

yes, this has happened to me. only twice. felt weird, then made me sad.

― donna (donna), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

This has never happened to me - and in fact I've been very lucky, and no friend has died, so far. But I've never found this with dead relatives either.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 1 August 2003 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes a few times. More often I wonder what my friend C, who died when she was 14, would look like now.

I just heard that a woman I know from poetry workshops has died. I didn't like her poetry but I feel really sad, and not really in the mood to go and play rounders with coworkers :(

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 1 August 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Aww Archel, I am sorry. hugs x

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

ten years pass...

can't sleep for thinking

― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 09:30 (ten years ago) link

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