I did something like this a few years ago. Not saving someone’s life, but not reading messages and deleting my Facebook account.

I just got overloaded on it all and was going through a breakup at the time and didn’t want to keep talking to anyone. Nothing personal against anyone, I was just over it all and wanted out of Facebook, out of the addiction I felt to constantly check, and out of the privacy concerns of Facebook.

Could be a similar reason?

Also, was this Facebook or something else? Because if it was Facebook, it’s possible a privacy setting prevented the message from successfully going through.

There was this girl who was the daughter of a popular figure I knew many years ago and we lost contact over the years. I tried reaching out to her once on there and she never read the message. She was very social so I know she would have read it if she got it. But there is or was a privacy setting that could hide messages depending on how Facebook viewed a message and relationship of the two accounts. In our case, we had no mutual friends and no contact before on that account of mine and no other commonalities so Facebook hides the message in some deep place most people don’t check because it’s treated like spam or an unwanted stalker. I found some messages from random people there a few times on my account too. So maybe that happened here too?

Of course this is all assuming this is Facebook and they still have these measures in place all these years later.