re: How long do you wait to take dead people off your contacts?

It took me a couple of years before I took my brothers name out of my contact list. I felt bad every time I tried to do it prior to actually doing it. In my mind, removing it was saying that he was dead and was never coming back, which was something I didn't want to believe.

Side story, his nephew used his phone for a couple years after he died, and one day out of the blue my phone rang with my brothers name showing up on my screen, I damn near had a heart attack, I lost it and had to compose myself before answering once I realized it was my nephew calling.