Archive for the ‘Death + the Law’ Category
(From 2009) Governor of RI to Gays and Lesbians: You Cannot Claim Your Partner’s Corpse
14, May 2012R.I. governor vetoes ‘domestic partners’ burial bill Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal, (November 10, 2009) Note: This post first ran in November 2009. We’re reposting it now, after President Obama’s recently announced support for same-sex marriage. Most people do no realize the legal obstacles same-sex partners often face when attempting to claim their partner’s corpse [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: civil rights, LGBT, same-sex partners, unclaimed bodies
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Poor Dead Steve Jobs May Not Own His Dead Image
15, Jan 2012Who Owns You Image After You Die? On the Media (January 13, 2012) Really interesting radio story by WNYC’s On the Media programme on what happens to an individual’s ‘image’ after he or she dies. Here is the set-up: A Chinese toy maker is set to release a Steve Jobs action figure next month, but [...]