How do I find out if someone is dead when I haven't seen them for years?
So you've lost touch with people over the years just like I have. You start out with all good intentions to stay in touch with your college friends, your neighbors, your work mates and even your family but somehow it just doesn't work out that way does it? As time goes by you start to think that you should make an effort to get in touch with some of your old friends again but you don't even know if they're alive or dead. Did you know that there's a way to find out if someone is dead and that you can do it in less than 10 minutes?
How can I find out if someone is dead without causing any distress?
Don't make the same mistake that I did when I re-discovered my old address book a little while ago. If you start phoning around without doing a bit of research first you could end up talking to very distressed relatives or close friends of someone who is now dead. Conversations like this are likely to leave you in just as much of a mess as the poor person who had to give you the bad news.
The fact is that all your friends and relatives get older at the same rate as you do. This means that the older you get the more likely it is that your old friends might have died. I realised this a few years ago when my university project partner died. He was younger than I was so it made me think.
It's fun to find out what your friends have been doing.
If you're researching the friends that you've lost touch with then you should make a point of finding out something about them before you attempt to contact them. It can actualy be a lot of fun finding out what your friends have been doing while you haven't been looking. Where have they been living? have they been married or divorced? have they been in prison? are they still in prison? and of course, have they passed away?
when you've done the research you can decide whether or not you want to make contact with someone that you used to know. They might not be the same person that you remember they were and if they're no longer alive you might decide that it's best to simply remember them as they used to be.
How to find out if someone is dead using online public records.
You can access death records on the Internet very easily. In fact you could look up dozens of old friends in a single evening to find out something about thier history and check to make sure they aren't dead. All you have to do is register with a web site that provides all this information for you and start searching for your friends and relatives.
