Archive for the ‘Death + Technology’ Category
Live and Let Social Media Die
8, May 2012Government Advises Americans to Create ‘Social Media Will’ to Handle Facebook, Twitter, Email Accounts After Death Meena Hart Duerson, New York Daily News (May 7, 2012) If you haven’t thought about what will happen to your Facebook account when you die, the government suggests you get started. Creating a “social media will” is now one [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Technology|Death + the Law|Death + the Web
- Tags: digital assets, Facebook
Facebook likes Organ Donation
2, May 2012.
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Death + Technology|Death + the Web
- Tags: bioethics, Facebook
On the Media: Updating Your Social Media After You Die WNYC Public Radio (March 23, 2012) With social media, so much of our interactions with the world now live online, even after we may not be living at all. Brooke talks to James Norris, the founder of the website Deadsocial about prolonging social media relationships [...]
Nuts and Bolts! Nuts and Bolts! Dead Bodies Rule!
22, Feb 2012The Afterlife of Artificial Hips and Knees Clark Boyd and Rob Hugh-Jones PRI’s The World via BBC News (February 21, 2012) The metal used in surgical implants can be melted down and recycled after people are cremated, and these days it often is. Long time readers of the Death Reference Desk might remember this August [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Death + Technology|Death Ethics|Eco-Death
- Tags: bioethics, cremains, green burial
The Facebook Show On The Media, WNYC Public Radio (February 03, 2012) An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose rapist friended her on Facebook, the value of a “Like.” Living Online After Death Faces Nebraska Legal Battle BBC News (January 31, 2012) WNYC’s On the [...]