Deceased player statue

[Neira]

tl;dr, I don't think a player statue is appropriate, but a memorial like a headstone or butsudan that could have personal meaning to those who use it could enhance the gameplay for some, and I'm all for that.

I think something along those lines would be a nice addition to the furnishings. I wouldn't want something so specific, but a more general memorial, perhaps with the ability to add a name to it, would be a nice item and useful. Whether to celebrate something or to remember something, with or without the ability to edit a name on, it could be used as a furnishing for any FC to commemorate something important to them.

That being said, not to sound callous, but I don't think it's appropriate to make a public spectacle of a personal loss. I don't know if this is the same person or someone else, but I've seen another topic on reddit about someone that a FC was close to dying. I am sorry for your loss, and I've also lost a couple of people I met online(XI as well), but I find it incredibly inappropriate to try to inform hundred of thousands of people who didn't even know this person that you're grieving. Thousands die every day in reality, and sometimes it will affect us and sometimes it won't. But to go out of your way to try to impact others by something that they shouldn't need to be burdened by is morbid, as another user put it.

I like the concept of creating a memorial so that we, as players and FCs, can remember something important to us. But things like this honestly don't belong in public forums, and I hope to whatever powers that may be that no one will call attention to my own death when that time comes.