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 usually leave them. Not really sure why.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I still have RiF installed on my phone. Does that answer your question?

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

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

Huh… I- never considered this question.

My contacts list has been growing for 21 years. Very few people have caused me so much distress that I’d found removing them from my contacts to be worthwhile. I only found out about some of my friends deaths fairly recently.

On reflection, as I currently look through my contacts list I think removing the friends that have since passed would cause me more distress than leaving them in there. I won’t be calling them.

I let it stay untill I am ready to delete it.

When my grand parents died I kept the entry in my phonebook untill one day some time later when cleaning up the contacts I didn’t see a reason why I should keep it.

My Xbox friend list has a slowly growing number of gamer tags that will never be online again

Climate change will be reversed and billionaires will be abolished before I delete my grandparents contacts from my phone. Every time I pass my grandpa’s, I hear Hello young man, it’s your grandfather. like he said every time we talked on the phone regardless of who called who.

I can understand those who don’t feel the same way.

Keep it if you want, don’t keep it if you don’t.

But never forget the people.

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