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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 04 October 2015 03:16:06PM 3 points [-]

Not exactly, but related: Hugh Everett's' daughter Elizabeth committed suicide in 1996 and wrote in her suicide note that she's going to a parallel universe to be with her father.

Comment author: gwern 05 October 2015 12:12:50AM *  4 points [-]

The exact wording is a little more tentative. From Many Worlds of Hugh Everett, pg757 in my Calibre:

Funeral requests: I prefer no church stuff. Please burn me and DON’T FILE ME Please sprinkle me in some nice body of water … or the garbage, maybe that way I’ll end up in the correct parallel universe to meet up w/Daddy.^7

(The footnote explains that "don't file me" is a joking reference to how Everett's ashes were apparently kept in a filing cabinet for some time.)

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