Death of an online friend.

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Hi Everyone,

Basically i had this friend that i met and spoke too on my animal crossing 3ds game, we spoke for over three years every evening, i recently found out that she got ill and unfortunately today passed away, her brother used her 3ds to inform me of her passing and i was shocked! her name was Mary and her Mii name was Mia and she was a wonderful person, we got on really well! she passed away around 3pm today. I was in disbelief and shock , i knew she had health problems but now i'm beginning to feel the loss.

Has anyone ever lost a friend that they've met online? if so how do you cope with the loss?
it's going to be so strange to not speak to her or see her online anymore :'-(

Sorrowfairiewhispers

Yesterday i lost a very dear friend of mine. She was a good person inside and out, pure of heart, mind and spirit! a strong women. I miss her solely. She wanted me and another friend of ours to hear this song. called Elvis " If i can dream", I'm listening to the words and thinking of you Mary. God bless you and your family. I'll never forget you! thank you for the three year friendship that we shared on our favourite Nintendo 3ds game her mii was called Mia. Animal crossing new leaf. I'm glad your guardian angel and Lucy the dog accompanied you. You've returned home now and no longer in pain. I hope in another life time and someday our paths will cross once again. R.I.P

Sorry for your loss.

Very sorry to hear. I’m praying for your healing.

Something similar happened to me a few years ago. Confession time, and I rarely bring this up. Not long after I got married, I got hooked on SecondLife. I don’t look at relationships as the same as RL relationships, so being a flirt in fantasyland where I had no hope of ever actually meeting these people never really phased me, and my wife even developed a strange fascination with it and would even feed me lines to say to some of these women.

Well, there was one in particular that I did grow attached to and seemed to be really into me. I say “seemed” to, because you never really know who’s just playing a role or who’s actually real. But I loved this person in whatever sense you CAN love someone that way.

I knew she had some health problems and she wasn’t everything she seemed. I saw her less and less, she seemed alternately distant, needy, and maybe even neurotic. So eventually I took her off my contacts list. I felt bad, but I just didn’t know what to believe anymore.

Not too many weeks after, I looked up her profile just to see if she was still around. In her description, there was a note claiming to be from her DAUGHTER saying that she had died.

Now THAT made me feel sad and even a little guilty. I don’t know if she’s REALLY dead or if that was a ploy to get away from one or more SL people, including myself. But one way or another, she’s gone, and one way or another it’s for the best.

I have a mental list of women that I think about almost every day. I never forget. She ranks low on that list, but still it invades my thoughts. If she really was dying, I hope she found peace. If not, I wish her the same.

You are a sweet, sweet soul!

And no worries. I can’t look back and honestly say, yeah, I was really close to this person or really knew this person, and for all I know she was merely acting a part. A lot of us do, and SL is the kind of place where you can be or do whatever you want. But you can also get lost in it and become attached. So I don’t know if I feel sorrow, guilt, total indifference, or relief. I feel...CONFUSED. Yeah, that’s the right word.

It doesn’t keep me up at night. I just wonder sometimes.