Lost a friend last year. Today would be her birthday. It still is. Facebook tells me to send her a b-day greeting.
People post condolence-type messages, or thoughts about what the person meant to you.
Does someone maintain her FB? (I lost a friend a few years ago and her husband keeps it up in her place.) (And in the case of my friend, ALS sucks.)
Like @sylvan8798 said, people post condolence messages and tributes.
I am sorry for your loss.
I sometimes get spam emails from my deceased BIL. I guess his email was hacked. It always throws me for a loop when I see his name as the sender.
I’ve had those messages also and it always takes me aback. I’m sorry for your loss, and I fear that this kind of situation is only going to increase as we age. 
I got you beat, one of my work acquaintances died a few years ago and LinkedIn asked me yesterday to congratulate him on his work anniversary freaked me out for a nanosecond
My fathers charities keep asking him to contribute and send him little things like nickles, personalized pads of paper, tote bags, dream catcher, blank greeting cards. He’s been gone over a yr and I wish they’d get the message. His fraternity kept sending him emails about being a mentor to younger grads…christmas cards with hand written notes, it just goes on and on.
Well, why don’t you call these places and have him taken off mailing lists? It doesn’t make a lot of sense to “hope they’ll get the message.”
My father has be deceased for more than 18 years and never lived in even lived in my state and I still get “please give” letters from various charities!
My dad’s been gone 20 years this year, and still gets auto insurance offers from AARP. Believe me, writing to have names removed from lists is a thankless job and only works about 40% of the time (sample size =1, my own results. Number of letters written - 40-50.) Sometimes i resort to my mom’s silly useless method and write in big letters on the envelope “Return to Sender - Don’t need insurance since i haven’t driven in the 20 years since i died!!!” (And I have sent them actual letters to stop the mailings.)
Yea, we still get things for deceased family members, some of whom have been dead decades. We are still also getting a subscription to a magazine for a tenant who lived in our place over two decades ago! At least H sometimes finds the magazine interesting.
We get solicitations from charities in the name of my late FIL who has been gone nearly 30 years. When he died we lived in another state. We never shared an address. Nothing was ever subscribed to or ordered in his name to any of our addresses.
We have never responded to any of them, so the “ignore them” method doesn’t work…
For a while after he died, my MIL would get calls from salespeople who claimed they had talked to “Bob” last week and needed to leave him a message. She finally started telling the callers that he had a new number, and giving them the number for the cemetery. I can’t think of an equilivent up to date way to stop the robocalls and junk mail.
I had a friend visit and gifted me a “Book of Mormons.” I am not Mormon but I smiled and said thank you.
@Pizzagirl I did for a while go thru his email and respond to cards, as executrix I had to share address to get important mail, this just came along with. I realize it might not make sense to “hope they get the message” but dealing with the real business of the estate takes up most of my free time so I have to prioritize