Tag Archives: death
Keep a list of websites with your will?
Following on from earlier conversations about what happens to our online lives when we die, I spoke to a Public Trust advisor last week about the issue: Who's going to trawl around the web cancelling your email addresses, subscriptions and social media accounts when you die? And who's going to decide whether and when to pull the plug on your websites?
What Facebook does when you die
Staying with the 'what happens when you die these days' theme, the Guardian has a story by Dave Lee looking at what Facebook does when a member dies. Interesting.
How would you know if I died?
In 1975, if someone died you would have read about it in the paper - having scanned the death notices (along with births, engagements and weddings) for familiar names. But what about in 2008? I know my Mum used to check the death notices before scanning the headlines and doing the crossword and I think my aunties do too. But I don't and nor do many of my friends (a lot don't buy newspapers anymore). Nor do any of the colleagues and students I canvassed yesterday.
My brother was shot in the head on a Monday night