I personally delete. Someone else will take that number anyways… I feel like there are so many other things to keep that remind us of whom we have lost

Keep it. I still have my uncle on Steam over 8 years later.

I leave them. I’ve even dialed the super close ones a couple of times over the years on purpose just to (anxiously) see if their numbers have been taken 😅

I have another address book I move them to that is a archive for past contacts. Past work contacts etc… never had to go back to it, but good to know I can. Also don’t have random people I have not contacted in 10 years still on my day to day address book.

Absolutely I delete them. Can’t have that kind of evidence lying around, loose ends sink careers.

I just keep them, occasionally call the long dead numbers too which is kinda sad but whatever

I let it stay.

It is weird when someone that uses the number joins signal though… I want to reach out to them because I miss my brother but its a good reminder that life marches on with or without you. And we should let the ones who have left, go.

I leave them in if it’s someone i care about. I lost a school kid last year. Took his files out of my drawer today.

If they had a significant role in my life I’ll leave them and add a yearly calendar event so that hopefully they don’t die the second time, at least while I’m alive.

I’ve never deleted any saved contacts on my phone/s over the years so there’s likely more than a couple of people there who are no longer living.

I don’t keep my contacts list clean. Deceased people are to be found in my contact list; not as any sort of memorials, but because it didn’t even occur to me to remove them. A couple bits of data storage is free. Going in and deleting them takes effort.

I don’t think I’ve ever deleted a contact from my address book for any reason whatsoever

lol. clean out my contact list. so funny. like im going to get rid of the old number people I know used to have.

I add the ⚱️emoji to their name.

Makes them easy to search for and stop to have a moment of reflection on their effect on my life.

Both of my parents are dead. It looks like I deleted one and left one.