death and the web

In the last few days I came across three interesting debates on identity on the internet and what remains of it when we die... I post them here while I think about them...

http://ideasbazaar.typepad.com/the_ideas_bazaar/2011/01/death-digital-remains-and-the-network.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/magazine/09Immortality-t.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/12/death-and-digital-gh.html

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addition as per 31/03/2011:

The Luca Coscioni Foundation just released a Facebook app, "The Last Wish" where users can identify two candidates (e.g. friends, family members) who, in case the user dies, can unlock through a procedure (e.g. filling in some forms) a message left by the user for after he or she died.

http://pappagallo.posterous.com/il-testamento-biologico-si-puo-fare-su-facebo#comment

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other addition... nice blog @Death Reference about Facebook and dying: "19,000 Facebook Users Die Each Day. Here is How FB’s Memorialization Mode Works"

http://deathreferencedesk.org/2012/02/05/19000-facebook-users-die-each-day-here-is-how-fbs-memorialization-mode-works/

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