Here's an interesting "feel-good" story from The Guardian about a young man in Norway, whose parents learned, upon.....

[RussellCattle]

.....his death, about a rich and fulfilling life that that he had experienced, online, that they had not known about.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241024-the-remarkable-story-of-the-boy-who-lived-a-secret-life-in-world-of-warcraft?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

I'd like to watch the documentary about him that is mentioned in the hope that my impression so far, that this is a story about our intrinsic humanity and how it can prevail in the most improbable places and circumstances, proves to be true.

[Ocelot II]

1. I just watched it! It's kind of a tear-jerker but very well done.

The young man had Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, which is incurable and progressive - he was fine until he was about 4 then gradually became weaker until he could no longer walk and eventually could only move his fingers well enough to use a computer. When he died at the age of 25 (which is about as long as people ever live with that condition) his parents found his WoW account and his email and sent out a message that he had passed away - and to their surprise they received a huge number of responses from all the people, even from other countries, who had been his friends in the game and who had cared for him, not knowing most of the time about his condition, which he hadn't disclosed until almost the end of his life. But participating in the game gave him an active social life, even romance, that he wouldn't have had IRL. It's definitely worth watching.

[RussellCattle]

2. Thanks, I look forward watching it and shedding a few tears. Don't exactly know why, but the fact that he and his.....

......parents are from Norway somehow makes the common humanity of it all, all the more touching.