rant · moment 11 of 27
How You Know Someone Died: The Facebook Memorial Girl
from #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show · #171
3 min
Tim describes the phenomenon of one person repeatedly posting nostalgic messages on a dead friend's Facebook page as the tell that someone has passed, tying back to his hometown rehab friends.
- Tim checks old Facebook profiles of people from his hometown to see what happened to them.
- How to know someone died: their profile isn't marked as a memorial, but one girl just keeps posting on it every day.
- The girl posts repeatedly over years—'a lot of people forgot about you but I'll never forget'—which is the telltale sign he's dead.
- One girl over and over: 'I love you, I remember when we used to chill,' with increasingly specific and questionable memories.
- Tim shifts to rehab: he's glad he got out of it because for a lot of people it becomes a lifestyle, their whole identity.
- The rehab facility was good when Tim was there because everyone wanted to get sober, but deteriorated after he left when court-ordered people with no interest showed up.
- After leaving rehab, Tim was done with drugs; he tried pot a few more times, got panic attacks, and stopped completely.
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