In my mind I heard the words 'ha! you're dead you bastard!' for one such person that I'll call 'disaster'. I was curious to see what the walking disaster that I used to know was up to. Said disaster was featured in an article for a screw up, so periodically I looked up disaster's name to see what's new. I found a new article a couple years ago that didn't say how disaster died, but apparently the article was about disaster's business getting fined by gubmint after disaster died. My gladness could not be helped that I had no business or personal association with disaster person.
Now that you brought this up and now that I'm starting (this year) to focus on getting my spiritual life in order, I'm going to have to let that negativity go. I'll admit that's still the way I think about the disaster person. It's not adding anything positive to my life to do that kind of thinking and I don't know how to go about changing it, but I'll try.