The social media accounts of the dead
IRELAND – A guide to how different social media platforms treat the accounts of deceased users.
IRELAND – A guide to how different social media platforms treat the accounts of deceased users.
USA – Donating social media data can now assist researchers in helping to prevent suicide in vulnerable people.
UK – We spend more of our lives on the internet — but what happens to our online selves when we die?
Since her husband, Iain, died seven months ago, Caroline Twigg has had to face an unexpected problem – what to do with his
UK – In the old days we stored our treasured memories in photo albums and paper diaries. Physical things which could be passed on in a will. But now, in our online lives our memories – our thoughts, feelings and images – are scattered to
My parents have always been upfront with me about their wishes for when they die. I can remember talking about cremation, living wills, and Do Not Resuscitate orders way back in middle school. But when a PR pitch came across my inbox, announcing that in a recent survey only
IL – Social media, especially Facebook, profoundly has changed the way we announce death and/or its imminence, the way we find out about loss, the way we mourn, the language we use to comfort the grieving and the status of those who do the comforting.
IL – “About seven years ago, Lauren Bacall showed up at my place for a party,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer John Patrick Shanley tweeted Wednesday morning. “It was like having a yacht show up in your bathtub.” Shanley’s anecdote was wry but affectionate.