"RETURN TO SENDER: DECEASED"

I sell various items online, including a "Memento Mori / Memento Vivere" coin. Which translates from Latin as "Remember you must die" / "Remember to live."



Just yesterday, a coin I had sold to a man in Georgia in late August was returned to me with a yellow USPS label on the package: RETURN TO SENDER: DECEASED.

It's almost always men who buy this particular coin, and usually older men (with an older sense of honor, and a sense of their own mortality---one man even wrote to me that he was dying, but that this coin's motto was helping him through his last days). 

I immediately checked my orders to confirm the name and the address of who I had sent it to, and then looked him up on LinkedIn: It was a younger man, aged 34. From his buyer's profile, he was into Star Wars, and gaming, and various gaming paraphernalia. ("Memento Mori" is a "cool" concept in the online gaming world. A concept.) From his LinkedIn profile, he'd attended a local college for one year, then worked at a Dollar General store for 2 years, until 2015. After that, no job info online.

He ordered this coin on August 21. I mailed it out on August 26. 

On the morning of August 26, the house he lived in blew up:
https://hoodline.com/2026/08/rockmart-man-dies-as-explosions-rip-through-home-trapping-him-inside/

Various explosions were reported by neighbors on this morning, prior to 6am, before the house ultimately burned to the ground. (The fire department arrived within 10 mins, according to sources, but were unable to save the structure. They later found the body of one man, whose identity has still not been officially announced. And, as of October 2, I've been unable to find an obituary for this young man.)

Was it a gas leak? Was the house a crack/meth den? Why is there no online obit for him? Since the 8/28 online announcement of the explosion/fire at his exact address, there has been NOTHING to clarify what exactly happened there, or to identify the name of the man who died there. Why the lack of info?

What were this guy's hopes and dreams? In real life, he once worked at a Dollar Store years ago. He then began to gain a false sense of power through his online gaming identity, and perhaps his online purchases of "manly" coins. Well, OK: Many of us try to feel good through our various activities.

But what in the hell BLEW UP HIS WHOLE HOUSE?!