A number to text

[HeyBasil]

I lost my dad. I miss him so much. My mum has his phone and is using it as a spare phone. I just want to text him and keep sending him messages. I know he won’t reply but I think it would help me. Is there some blank number I can text? Or some bereavement charity who have a number like this?

Would it help to buy a nice journal and write down the texts and messages in that?

Create an email and email him

My daughters lost their dad... when they needed to hear his voice they rang his mobile... obviously it went to voicemail...but for a time it still had his greeting ..

He also featured on a few episodes of a popular fly on the wall police series... they cherish these episodes as they show their dad before he got ill

I had to check that I hadn’t written this post and forgotten!

My dad died 3 months ago, very unexpectedly.

My mum had his phone and has been through so of his messages. It drives me mad. I’d love to message him, I keep going to to tell him things.

i might set up an email address and email him xx

I'm sorry for the loss of your dear Dad xxx

When my mum passed, I had her phone for a month before I disconnected it. Friends used to send messages. I don't think they knew I had it and I didn't tell them.

Does your mum still have his number? If she doesn't- you can just text his number.

I message my brother on Facebook messenger.
It makes me so sad that he’s not there to read them, and to reply to me.

There's a beautiful book about this called the Phone Box at the End of the World. Based on a true story of a man who set up a phone box in his garden for people in Japan who had lost people in the tsunami to be able to go and phone.

Beautiful concept. I'd go for the email option I think.