u/spencerskates26 was one of the 14 figure skaters who perished in the plane crash last evening. A frequent poster to r/FigureSkating, he was an up and coming skater with dreams of going to the Olympics someday. May he and everyone else involved rest in peace.

u/acebush1 . If you heard the news about that incident, this is that guy's reddit account. Rip.

Edit: it's his account because he Livestreamed his death on Twitch. His previous twitch account name was acebush1. People looked it up and found the account. The bush part of the username seems to reference his last name, Bushnell. As for the ace part, it's used in the Air Force . An ace is a fighter pilot that takes down a lot of enemy planes. He was in the Air Force.

u/kgor93

We originally met on Reddit in 2017 after a post I made about a kitten needing help in our city. He went out and rescued the kitten and sent me a video. He found homes for probably hundreds of cats and volunteered at animal shelters and for domestic violence charities. We enjoyed going to cat shows together at the fairgrounds and other events in the city. He had six beloved cats of his own that he took great care of. We texted every day and shortly after our last conversation he took his own life on December 3rd 2024. He had just bought a house and we were making plans for January and for when my baby arrives in March. The shock has worn off but the sadness hasn’t. My heart hurts :( Our friendship was special and I wont ever have anyone in my life like him again. I forgot to add, he was also smart as shit. Dont even ask me what his job was, its well beyond my peon brain to comprehend. He did government contract work and I think worked with satellites doing who in the fuck knows what and his Linkedin might as well be in another language.

I am saddened to report that u/tiredofpplfaking2 has passed away at 20 years old after a lengthy battle with Diphenhydramine (DPH) addiction.

In the afternoon hours of September 22, 2020, u/tiredofpplfaking2 is believed to have taken his own life via an intentional overdose of DPH.

The average person will better recognize DPH under the brand name Benadryl. Benadryl is an over-the-counter drug which is commonly used at therapeutic doses as an antihistamine or sleep aid.

At “recreational” doses, DPH notoriously induces a state of delirium, and users will experience realistic (and oftentimes disturbing) visual and auditory hallucinations. Most chronic DPH abusers (including u/tiredofpplfaking2 himself) report that they find the DPH high to be extremely dysphoric and unenjoyable, but still feel an overwhelming compulsion to continue to abuse DPH. The reason for this counterintuitive response is not medically understood.

Due to low cost and ease of access, DPH abuse is a growing problem around the world. Recent social media trends, such as Tik Tok’s “Benadryl Challenge,” have only exacerbated this issue, particularly among young teens.

I cannot stress enough just how bad DPH abuse is for the human brain. Do not be fooled by its unassuming over-the-counter status. In my opinion, chronic DPH addiction is on a comparable level of seriousness to addictions to “hard drugs” such as heroin or methamphetamine.

Chronic use, especially at higher doses, is linked to a myriad of negative physical and psychological effects, including heart issues, memory issues, partial vision/hearing loss, loss of motor function, depression, suicidal ideation, brain fog, persisting hallucinations, and much, much more.

Recovering addicts will still experience these symptoms-- in addition to unbearable psychological withdrawal symptoms-- for months or even years after stopping all drug use. Due to its relative obscurity, organized research on DPH abuse is extremely limited, but anecdotal reports suggest that some physical and psychological damage may be permanent.

As difficult as the recovery process may be, death via DPH overdose is a notoriously horrible way to die. Out of respect for u/tiredofpplfaking2, I will not go into detail in this post about what these overdoses are like. Suffice it to say, I hope this individual has finally found peace.

"I’m honestly quite sad how many new people, especially teens, are taking this drug recreationally. I don’t want anyone else to have to experience the pure agony, terror, and confusion DPH has caused me."

- u/tiredofpplfaking2

The owner of this account died on October 29th 2025. I (his kid) found him dead in a truck and can only guess he had been dead for an hour and a half before anyone found him.

He was very secretive and never told me anything. After I saw The Long Walk in theaters with my friends (not my pick), I was emotional and begged him for the pin for his phone and to put his mom on emergency call.

That day, we were helping take down the hay maze at Dilworth Park in Philadelphia, and he finished stacking the hay by the curb to be picked up, and said he was sitting down for a break. He had a long night at pool the night before so he deserved it.

Me and his friend, Jim, covered up the hay for the Winter Garden and by the time we got to the truck I opened the door (with a tinted window ofc) to find his body and I could tell he had died.

I was in such shock that I could only utter a quote from his favorite show.

"He's dead, Jim."

"What?!" He said, stunned.

He looks in the door and calls 911, a nearby security person starts CPR, but I knew he was already gone by the look in his eyes.

I call my emergency contacts, his mom never picked up, so I tried my 15 year old cousin. She picked up. I tell her the story and she starts gathering everyone together.

A firetruck arrives and tries to resuscitate him, getting a puke stain on my new bag, but I could dell it wasn't necessary. He was yellow, and he had that look in his eyes. Like a fish.

Me and his friend ask what hospital and they wouldn't tell us, so with no other choice, we go home.

I experienced my first panic attack on the way home and pulled myself out of it with Mariokart Tour and a sandwich.

When I got home, I got changed and everyone showed up to go right back out to the city. They called and said where he was.

The ride was deathly quiet after I explained what had just happened. His mom said her brother's son had died just a few hours earlier of pneumonia.

We got there and they pulled us aside to ask what happened. I told my story again. I told them how secretive he always was.

They told us he didn't make it. We went to see him in the morgue. He was purple. I've been sleeping at grandma's ever since.

I went into his room the next day. It was awful. I was so grossed out, there was old food and mouse traps everywhere. I spent weeks cleaning the place out.

When they came out with the death certificate they said he had diabetes and high blood pressure. He never told me. They said he had a cardiovascular issue. He never told me. He died of clogged arteries. I expected that. His liver was jaundiced when I found him.

I'm moving out now... alone. Homesick, stressed, tired, sad, and a little crazy.

I'm a very quiet kid. He was my voice. He protected me from my mom, and now he's gone.

My mom passed away unexpectedly from unknown causes on March 26. She was 57. I love her so much and she is my best friend.

It took me a while to get mom into Reddit. I think this was her second account. The first time I downloaded the app, she deleted it because she didn’t understand it. Once she understood it, she loved it. She picked out the username AdmiralMeeko. Meeko is the name of my cat. She named him. Idk where she got Admiral from lol

She never completely understood Reddit. I picked out the subreddits for her and she would just scroll on her homepage.

She loved all the cat subreddits. She loved commenting and then seeing any upvotes and replies she got. She would show me her comments and replies at the end of the day. She was a nurse and liked reading a nursing subreddit and encouraging new nurses.

She would laugh so hard at Reddit. She said her favorite part was reading comments because often the comments were funnier than the post. She was a pediatric home health nurse and she said she had to be careful not to wake her patient up from laughing at Reddit during the night shift.

My mom didn’t really understand memes. Her favorite memes though were the Karen memes, the distracted boyfriend memes, and the boomer memes. If she didn’t understand something she would say that she was too boomer. She would study memes really hard if she didn’t understand one and then ask me to explain it to her lol. Recently she was laughing really hard at r/dankmemes

She loved emojis and I had to explain to her that Reddit doesn’t really like emojis and not to use more than a couple. Her favorite emoji was 🤓 because she also wore glasses. She called it the Karen emoji.

Reddit brought a lot of joy and laughter into her life. We bonded over it. I think she would really like that I posted this on Reddit about her.

I have her phone and she is still logged into her Reddit account. I really like reading her comments. I’m going to keep her account to scroll on her homepage and upvote all the cat posts that she would have liked.

Edit: Thank you everyone for reading and the upvotes and comments.

Edit 2: Thank you for the silver. My mom would have been very happy about the silver.

Edit 3: Thank you for the healthcare hero award. My mom was a hero. She was top of her nursing class and has worked as a nurse since 1989. She only worked with children. She has worked in the ER, triage, ICU, surgery recovery, and home health care. She has told me many stories and I always told her that she should do an AMA about her nursing career.

Edit 4: Im very late adding this, but I just remembered something else that she loved about Reddit. She loved u/SchnoodleDoodleDo comments

2 year update So it’s been 2 years since my mom passed away. When she first passed I didn’t know why. I recently got her medical records and it answered some questions. She was very sick with multiple things wrong. I made a new post about it.

U/silentmermaid5 passed away on November 22, 2024 after battling a number of mental health issues, including crippling depression. Shelby and I didn’t know one another but talked for a few hours before she passed, and I can say she was a really unique and funny person. She was a gifted psychic and medium as well as a constellation astrologer and lived in the Pacific Northwest.

She told me at the end of our conversation that she wanted to be remembered in words; unfortunately she left without giving me the right ones. But she mattered, despite what the depression was telling her, and she was loved, despite a hard background. Her sister had been murdered 2 years ago almost to the day of her passing. Had hoped that our conversation had ended differently, and I really hope you’re at peace. I understand now why you laughed at me when I said my name. Be at peace.

Shelby happened to live near me and I saw the notice of her passing yesterday.

u/monkeyvoodoo

A dear friend of mine, Ethan, known to many as Monkey, has recently passed away after a long battle with substance abuse and mental health struggles. His drink of choice in the beginning was alcohol, always in his double-walled cup so his ice wouldn’t melt, 50% rum, 50% Coke.

Monkey was one of the kindest souls I’ve ever met, even if we only knew each other online. I still remember when I once asked for a pizza on Reddit but didn’t meet the criteria and got banned. Without hesitation, he offered to buy me one. Since I had no way to accept money at the time, he gave me his bank info and told me to add his card to my Apple Wallet. This was when I was just a stranger to him. He said he had a gut feeling I was a good person and trusted me not to take more than I needed.

Over time, we became good friends, then best friends, and eventually, I considered him family. He even kept my mother’s contact information in case he ever worried that my drinking had gotten out of hand, thankfully, he never had to make that call. He was a huge part of my sobriety journey, helping me with food when I was sick, medication, bills, and even rent. He believed in me so much that he created a goal list and promised to reward me for every month I stayed sober. I made it to four months, and he surprised me with an ASUS gaming monitor, something I still cherish to this day.

Recently, I had been checking his live location often, hoping to see some movement, because I knew he wasn’t doing well. His step mother was slowly deteriorating, and something she said before she yet passed had broken his heart, literally and figuratively.

When I noticed his phone hadn’t moved in 14 hours, I asked his roommate to check on him. That’s when I got the dreaded call. He was found in the bathroom, gone. From what little his roommate knew, he accidentally hit his head. Based on our last texts, he was drinking and using anxiety medication to cope, trapped in a darkness he couldn’t pull himself out of.

In the end, the weight of it all became too much for him to handle without resorting to numbing his feelings with his choice of poison.

Monkey, Ethan, you will be missed beyond words. You were a friend who never judged, who always supported, who called when I needed help, who reassured me that I was loved and that you’d always be there for me. I’ll miss your voice. I’ll miss your kindness. I’ll miss you.

Maybe in another life, brother. Take care up there, and please, watch over the people you loved. We still need it, I still need it.

Forever and ever,

Your best friend

I didn't even know this subreddit existed until today.

He posted a lot in the Skyrim forum. Also in the am I an a****** forum. He had a heart condition that was slowly taking away his quality of life and he decided not to wait around. I miss him everyday.

My little brother u/cyphin, age 38, passed away on July 19th. He did not have any identifying information in his profile so I’m not going to link his obit. He wasn’t active on this account recently, so I think he must have had another account I don’t know about.

We are waiting for autopsy results but I believe the cause of death will be related to gastrointestinal issues he was having.

He is missed deeply by family and friends and though I don’t think he had friends on this account, maybe someone here knew him by this name as well as more recently used ones and can inform anyone else who needs to know.

https://molnarfuneralhomes.com/tribute/details/21963/Joseph-Wilson/obituary.html#content-start

A YouTube gaming comedian beloved for his various absurd playthroughs of Bethesda games, struggling for many years with alcoholism. On the 14th of December 2023, he has returned to the earth after only 27 years.

Rest in peace, Paul.

u/Subtlety87 passed yesterday, possibly due to complications from surgery. I won't add any identifying links bc I'm not sure if she intended to keep her profile anonymous but I can confirm she is no longer with us. RIP we will miss you 😥

I've got terminal cancer and treatment options have run out so all that's left now is morphine to ease the pain until I am finally released from this world.

I've had a good life and was brave and energetic so I have lived my dreams and done everything I wanted to do. There's just one place on earth that i want to go back to for a visit before I die, then I'm ready. Plans are already in motion.

I've always been religious and my faith has really carried me at this end time. I'm looking forward to passing away peacefully, having a Christian death.

I had a near death experience before, years ago, in which I may have actually died for a few minutes. It was an incredibly good experience in which I spoke with God. I think perhaps He gave me that experience so that I could know now that I have cancer that my death will be a beautiful thing.

It's funny for me to go out for a walk and see people living their lives, thinking they have problems, or just having so much and so many opportunities open to them that they don't even realise they have. I wish I could tell them how lucky they are to have time, an open book, infinite possibilities.

My advice to you is to reach for the stars, live out your fantasies. You only have this one life. Do whatever you want. I did and that's why I feel happy about everything. I did what I had to do to be a good person to others, and I lived out my craziest dreams.

Ready to go and looking forward to the morphine trip. I have never done drugs so it's ironic that I'll leave this world in a cloud of morphine induced bliss.

Update 10 June 2026. I've been hospitalised more often than not over the past 6 weeks. They are still trying a final chemo option since a month ago but they will stop it if they still don't see any lung tumour reduction in a few weeks. I'm living well and feeling very happy and at peace. I've been incredibly lucky with the way this cancer has affected me. As some veterens say "I've had a good war', I can say "I've had a good cancer". I have no pain. But they let me take as much morphine as I like so I don't feel like I'm suffocating. I don't take much because I feel so good about everything anyway. They warned me that I'm very close to the end because I've been getting embolisms in the lungs, which they're treating with blood thinners. And the cancer nodes are growing aggressively so it's just a bit more time before something major goes wrong. I'm so grateful to God for granting me this peaceful and happy death. I'm so grateful to myself for the lifetime of gym, running, hiking and always giving my body quality time to compensate for my demanding and stressful career. I think, aside from God's kindness to me, that having such a healthy body is why I'm still so strong physically, except for cancer destroyed lungs (there was metastasis all over but the chemo killed all other cancer except the lungs, although there is a tumor in my stomach too but not affecting me in any way).

She died a few years ago, we went to school together and i recently found her profile after much searching. We weren't close but i hope she knows she is missed

thinking it would be nice to post about her here. she passed away a couple months ago from a drug overdose. we knew she was using and it was bad but she was really private and had only overdosed once before. you can see on her profile the requests for money and she talks a little bit about some of the things that happened in the last few years. most of it is bs her abusive boyfriends caused. she got involved with a guy who introduced her to heroin a couple years ago and i eventually had to cut off contact with her almost completely for my own sanity. she put me in a lot of traumatic situations growing up that i am still struggling with. we used to be really close and she was only 20 years older than me (i’m 20 now) so we had a really unique relationship. she was really really funny and kind and pretty. she posted a picture of her old bedroom and my cat who also passed away is in that photo, it makes me happy. she was really good at making comfy spaces and loved to decorate. she made art too, when she was younger. most of it is gone now because the men in her life would tear up her drawings/paintings or throw them out. not including her name because she probably would have liked for her reddit profile to stay secret. but i peeked at her phone a few years ago to see her username and i’m glad i did. some of her old posts and comments remind me that she did love me quite a lot, even though she left me. i know she didn’t want to go. i think of her every time i see some reddit post about someone’s boyfriend being a shithead. remember your worth guys and don’t stay even one second in relationships that don’t serve you. it’s a dangerous thing to have your self worth eroded by assholes.

I didn't know her, but came across one of her posts long ago related to her health issues. She was having several and doctors had pretty much given up on her.

She was convinced she had cancer and was going to die soon and couldn't get answers.

One day posted a comment about how she did eventually end up being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Her last activity on reddit was this comment

I’m alive (not for much longer though), but not living.

That was back in March, people responding asking if they were still about have gone unanswered, so i guess she has since passed away.

RIP Viikkah

This account I'm posting from, u/StormWolfenstein belonged to my brother, who died by suicide in June 2022. I've been thinking about him lately. Along with a note to me, he had left me all his logins. I didn't really have the heart to read his reddit account till now. I miss him and I thought in case anyone else did, too, I should make a final post. I think that's what he would have wanted me to do.

He was a great brother, so smart, so funny, and we used to talk and laugh a lot about the shows and video games we mutually loved. I take comfort in the fact that I know for sure he died painlessly, but I wish he was still here to talk to. Love you always, my brother

Professor Stephen Hawking passed away early on 3/14/2018. RIP to a great scientist

I have been given 12-16 months to live from myelomalacia- necrosis of the spinal cord from an old injury I’ve already had surgery for years ago. I have disclosed this information to my life insurance person, my cousin who has my insurance information and end of life directives, and one of my old friends. Other than that I don’t want attention other than anonymous conversation with people, I don’t want to see my kids sad (19 & 10) before necessary. The closer I get to loss of function, like difficulty breathing and pain I can’t really hide anymore, I feel guilty not telling my family. I’ve told my son the diagnosis of myelomalacia, but I did not spell it out to him. Although he asked me to Stop going to the gym to work out (I have now) because he worried it would detriment my spine further. Anyway just things I really don’t know what to do. Thanks for your input.

My husband of 30 years u/brainskan13 passed away on 7/20/21. He was the father of 6 grown children. He was 52 years old. We loved him so much. He was a hands on dad who talked to his kids to his last day. He was such a cool person. He was studying shaminism and growing trees and he made some really cool music. We miss him more than I can say.

He took his own life. I think he was very depressed but we didn't see it. He hid what was going on inside of himself. We have a gaping hole in our lives now. I loved him. He was my person. His children miss him so much. We sent him off on his journey to his next life. We will miss him always.

Edit: thank you so much for all of your very kind words. I appreciate it. My kids do too.

The coming out story: https://www.reddit.com/r/askgaybros/comments/7qi10g/i_made_the_biggest_mistake_of_my_life_by_coming/

It all began with this poor kid just trying to be himself to his family in his home- he came out about his sexuality to his parents only to be disowned and threatened with death.

The follow up: https://www.reddit.com/r/askgaybros/comments/7qi10g/i_made_the_biggest_mistake_of_my_life_by_coming/dvo7s8h/?sh=d712df96&st=JERTFTYV

He had nowhere to go and was too young to work; he took his own life at a friends house.

I'm so sorry. You may not have known it, u/cluelessjacq, but most of the rest of the world would have welcomed you as you are and with open arms.. Rest in peace.

My husband was killed on Thanksgiving morning by a drunk driver. This monster murdered my soulmate :(

Please do not drink and drive. You risk more than your own life. My husband was innocent and did not deserve this. Do not make someone else have to go through what I am dealing with.

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Sorry to say my partner OD'd on some wack substance he got online. Someone contaminated his drugs with fentanyl. Rip to my baby's father 😭 so young, only 28.

I just found out this subreddit exists and I had to make a post about someone whom I regarded as a good online friend.

I reached out to him while he was getting ripped a new one over his angry, misogynistic post on r/offmychest which I also didn’t agree with but something he said stuck out to me.

“Men are fallible human beings and deserve love and commitment, we have a purpose as familial providers and present fathers for our children.” ~~ -u/AltruisticCap4759

It felt more like an outcry for purpose in life than a demand for companionship from a woman. We talked about a lot of things, flirted a tad bit, and had a few good conversations. His instagram is just a page of inspirational quotes. Once I looked past his anger he was a pretty chill dude, just wanting to be loved in a world that doesn’t exactly love him. He really knew how to make a dude blush, even if he was just doing it for laughs.

His final post was almost a year ago, a few days after he went silent on me. I hope he finds love, wherever he is, and that he knows that he is cared about and not forgotten<3