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请问朋友去世了，微信要删除吗？

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My friend passed away, should I delete his/her WeChat?

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In China, WeChat is a common social software with 1.2 billion users. People chat, share music, share videos, repost articles, post status and news on this social platform.

In this post "My friend passed away, should I delete WeChat?", most of the writers who responded highly are trying to remember their lost friends, relatives and loved ones in their own way.

Many of them referred to the film Coco (寻梦环游记). The background of the film Coco is the "Day of the Dead" in Mexico, and the thinking about life and death is very profound. The deceased people will become the dead and go to the lower world. They will not disappear, but when no one remembers them in the higher world, they really disappear.

Film Coco

They also mentioned a quote From David Eagleman's novel Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives:

A man dies three times in his life: the first time when he dies, he died biologically; The second time is when he is buried, people come to his funeral, to cherish the memory of his life, he died in the society; The third time is when the last person who remembers him pass away, and then he is really dead.

Most people choose not to delete a deceased person's WeChat, because by doing so, many of the memories they shared together can never be retrieved. Someone said: "After theses deceased leave this world, isn't it too cold to have his social media account deleted?" "Or" I don't want to forget him, so I'll keep him in my friends list until I'm gone."

They want to preserve the bits and pieces left by the deceased in this world in their own way, and protect these bits and pieces with their lives until their own lives also pass away.

The sea and the hills set us apart

Me and my love

But the sea and the hills won't move

Should I give in my soul and heart