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- Program extends Facebook’s reach into afterlife
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - PINs That Needle Families: How To Pass Down Your Passwords
The Wall Street Journal - 'I sort of see it as a legacy': Preparing for your digital afterlife
KOMO News Seattle - Cyberlife could go on without you
The Columbus Dispatch - Company Gathers Dead's Digital Assets
Discovery News - Who Owns Your Web Stuff After You Die? Good Question
Time Techland - Digital Afterlife: How to Safeguard Your Online Accounts After Death
LiveScience.com - Preserving Your Online Life After Death
NPR's Here and Now from WBUR - How to prepare for death in the digital age
Digital Life on Today - Digital Death and Digital Afterlife: Serious Business
Forbes B. Bonin Bough - Digital Afterlife
Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins - Handling your online legacy
News and Observer - Japanese and Other Recent Natural Disasters Unfortunately Highlight Importance of Securing Your Digital Afterlife
IEEE Spectrum - Digital Afterlife: What Happens to Your Online Accounts After You’re Gone?
LegalFish - Be mindful of your Internet accounts after your death
The Press-Enterprise - Your Digital Afterlife
The State of Things on WUNC - 4 Online Resources To Prepare For Your Death & Digital Afterlife
MakeUseOf.com - Digital Afterlife: Passing On Your Passwords
The Kojo Nnamdi Show - After Death, Protecting Your 'Digital Afterlife'
NPR's Fresh Air from WHYY - Cyberspace When You’re Dead
The New York Times - Online 'Locker' Preserves Your Digital Life for Eternity
Discovery News - Internet lifestyles leave digital estates for descendants
AFP - What happens to your data after you die?
THINQ.co.uk - Digital Death Day! (Is Every Day)
Death Reference Desk - Virtual life after death
BBC News - Digital Afterlife
NBC 15 - Madison, WI - Remembering the ancestors online
Global Times - Burials at sea boom in Hong Kong as cemeteries fill up Read more:
Monsters and Critics - Society Chinese authorities hail online funerals
China Daily - Future Perfect Contemplating the digital afterlife
Austin Chronicle - How 'digital executors' are helping families cope with web legacies of the dead
Ottawa Citizen - Logging out after snuffing out
The Eyeopener - R.I.P. on Facebook
Newsweek - Many people need a will for digital assests
The Daily Gleaner - The Social Digital Legacy Era
Arcalife - The Social Digital Legacy Era
Universal COmputer - What Happens When Nerds Die?
brettkelly.org - Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture
zeldman.com - Facebook messages to contact dead friend 'creepy'
CBC - Caring for your virtual afterlife
Financial Chronicle - MyWebWill prepares your final tweet, Facebook update upon death
DigitalBeat - New service, Online-legacy.com opens
PR Web - What Happens To Your Email and Social Networking Accounts When You Die?
makeuseof.com - Swedish Service Performs Your Last Online Wishes
ABC News - Facebook as a living obituary aka 'goodbye old friend'
ZDNet - What happens to your Facebook photos or online posts when you die?
CNN - Preparing for your digital afterlife
WRAL Raleigh, NC - Facebook to launch memorial profiles of deceased users
guardian.co.uk - Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches
The New York Times - The Digital Afterlife and Morning-After Messaging
Gadgetwise: New York Times - In death do we digitally depart
ZDNet Asia - Preparing for the digital afterlife
Tiscali - Digital Afterlife: Deceased Leave Living Legacy Online
The Huffington Post - Virtual Death
Ionizer - The Daily Grind: Do you have a MMO will and testament?
Be The Gamer - Protecting your digital assets after death
BBC - Before you die: Do Funeral Planning for Your Virtual
Your Funeral Guy - As I See It: After You're Gone (.com)
IT Jungle - Preparing your digital will
My Fox Tampa Bay - Virtual Death Memorials
flixya.coom - Virtual Afterlife
Wireclub - What happens to your virtual world after you die?
Orlando Sentinel - How Facebook, MySpace, Gmail and other handle your accounts when you die
Etan on Tech - VIDEO Virtual Afterlife: Managing Your Digital Assets
CBS 3 Philadelphia - Send e-greetings even after death
TECHFORBES - The Ultimate Disaster Recovery Plan
Didier Stevens - Securing our digital lives
Wellcome Library - Deathbook - social networking from beyond the grave
Buksia - Deathbook : The "Alternative" Macabre Version Of Facebook
IT Pro Portal - New services promise online life after death
CNN - Internet Amputation and Digital Death: Are Decade-Long Internet Bans Constitutional?
Citizen Media Law Project - Digital Assets and Real Estate Transactions
findresolution.com - Digital Immortality and Death 2.0
PSFK - To My Son, I Leave All My Passwords
trustsandestates.com - How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead
Time - Unexpected deaths leave online worlds behind
Northwest Herald - Recognize Passed Loved Ones Using Social Media
Simon Kapenda - After Facebook, the Deathbook
Times Online UK - Don't take your passwords to the grave
MarketWatch - Virtual Vault: Your Digital Afterlife
Perfect Memorials Funeral and Cremation Blog - Your Digital Will
Nothing Shocks Me, I'm a Scientist - New services promise online life after death
Tech Universe - Digital Planet Episode
BBC World Service - Introduction to Digital Death
University of London - You Need an Online Estate Plan
The Wall Street Journal - Do You Have a Virtual Last Will and Testament?
Reputation Defender Blog - Digital Afterlife
Pallimed: Arts & Humanities - First Virtually "ONLINE" Cemetery dies in 30 Days
Your Funeral Guy - Recognize Passed Loved Ones Using Social Media
K. Mo's Blog - You Got an Online Presence But What If You Die?
Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer - Websites and Email Accounts Are Assets, Too
Mini-Biz Buzz - Death and Passing on your Virtual Assets
The Many Relms of Relmstein - Technology Adds a New Dimension to Estate Planning
Law Firm Chronicle - Estate planning must include unlocking your online passwords
St. Petersburg Times - Dealing with Facebook after you Flickr out
Vue Weekly - Dead Man's Switch: CC Me From The Other Side
NPR: All Tech Considered