Gnargh.

Google is just confusing me. I read recently a quote about you dying three deaths: first when you stop breathing, second something something, third the last time someone says your name. Google isn't helping me find a source, and in fact is introducing a version where it's two deaths. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Is it a "real" quote, or something that just gets bounced around the internet by emo 13 year olds?

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Dunno about the veracity of the quote, but from that progression I'd bet that the second one is when the last person who personally knew you passes away.

ETA: Just as well I didn't bet my life...

Okay, that's weird. I did a quick google with his name and some of the words of the quote, and the first two I clicked on have the same typo as your link, flea.

I mean, "graved" is a typo, right? Or are my meds getting the better of me.

And, Matt, I wouldn't be surprised if I'd seen that too. It seems pretty consistently mangled.

I don't think "graved" is a typo. It's a real word.

I don't think you would say "consigned to the graved", though, right?

Oh, I had assumed it was an old quote.

Maybe he was affecting an olde timey vibe?

Yeah, "graved" means to dig or excavate, to carve or shape with a chisel, or "to clean and pay (sic) with pitch". I think in this usage, "graved" is a typo.

I'd bet that the second one is when the last person who personally knew you passes away.

There is a, hm, short story? novel? I don't remember, but it's set in an afterlife that lasts from when you die until the last person who remembers you (I think it was anyone who knew of you, not personally knew you) also dies. The premise of that one was that there was such a huge disaster that there was a large influx of newly dead people, but then an almost as huge wave of people moving on or disappearing or whatever because everyone they knew was also dead.

Oh, I was thinking "graved" could be a noun.