{"id":177326,"date":"2023-01-05T01:29:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/susan-meachen-announces-shes-alive-years-after-apparent-suicide\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T01:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T01:29:23","slug":"susan-meachen-announces-shes-alive-years-after-apparent-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/susan-meachen-announces-shes-alive-years-after-apparent-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Meachen announces she’s alive years after apparent suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"
It can be tricky, deciding what to do with a person’s social media accounts after they’ve died. Managing a person’s digital afterlife is made doubly difficult when the deceased is a public figure, even a minor one, like a self-published author.<\/p>\n
Romance author Susan Meachen’s daughter seemed to find the social media sweet spot after announcing her mother’s death by suicide on the author’s Facebook page in October 2020. Tributes poured in:<\/p>\n
“Sending love and hugs to you all!”<\/p>\n
“I miss her so much, as you all do. Thank you for letting her words be heard. Bless you all.”<\/p>\n
“Good luck to you and your family, hun. I pray the best for you in the future and know your mom would be proud and thankful for what you’ve done. Nothing but blessings for the best sent your way.”<\/p>\n\n
Since then, Meachen’s Facebook page has served as both shrine and repository of Meachen’s work, announcing sales and offering audiobook codes of the late author’s stories. <\/p>\n
The only problem? She never died. <\/p>\n
What we’re reading this week:<\/strong>Deepti Kapoor’s ‘Age of Vice,’ Rachel Hawkins’ ‘The Villa’<\/p>\n It would seem so.<\/p>\n The drama began when Meachen, apparently alive, made a post in the private writer’s Facebook group The Ward announcing she was alive. On Tuesday, Twitter user @Draggerofliars shared a screenshot of the post in a tweet<\/a>. Meachen’s post reads:<\/p>\n\n \u201cI debated on how to do this a million times and still not sure if it’s right or not. There’s going to be tons of questions and a lot of people leaving the group I’d guess. But my family did what they thought was best for me and I can’t fault them for it. I almost died again at my own hand and they had to go through all that hell again. Returning to The Ward doesn’t mean much but I am in a good place now and I am hoping to write again. Let the fun begin.\u201d<\/p>\n The romance community has since blown up over the news.<\/p>\n USA TODAY has reached out to Meachen via email and social media. <\/p>\nIs Susan Meachen still alive?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Who is Susan Meachen and what does she write?<\/strong><\/h2>\n