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Digital legacy — your online presence after death

The digital traces a person leaves are more extensive and more permanent than any previous generation's — which creates a form of posthumous presence that neither the dead nor the living fully know what to do with. Your emails, your posts, your messages, your search history: they constitute an archive of a life that will persist long after you are done with it. Deciding what to do with this — and who should have access to it — is new territory that most estate planning has not caught up to.

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How friend groups lose their original purpose without noticingHow friend groups navigate money differences without talking about themHow online communities navigate digital spaces after losing a memberHow to handle messages to your deceased parent's social mediaHow to handle your parent's dating profile after they dieHow to preserve your sibling's digital art after deathHow to stop your deceased spouse's music from playingHow to tell your deceased sibling's online gaming friendsWhen community projects reveal who really commitsWhen cryptocurrency dies with your loved oneWhen families avoid necessary transitionsWhen families disagree about managing a deceased loved one's social media accountsWhen family relationships need repair before moving forwardWhen friends avoid hard conversations about shared dreamsWhen friends post photos of you with your deceased exWhen friends struggle to plan for each other's digital legacyWhen parents and children protect each other with silenceWhen people reduce your deceased child to their cause of death onlineWhen social media shows you painful ads after losing a parentWhen someone else claims your deceased spouse onlineWhen strangers keep tagging your dead child onlineWhen you accidentally delete your deceased spouse's photosWhen you cannot delete the tweets you scheduled for after your deathWhen you find your deceased spouse's folder meant for youWhen you find your deceased spouse's secret photosWhen you impersonate your deceased sibling onlineWhen you need to read your deceased spouse's private emailsWhen your child clings to their deceased parent's streaming accountWhen your child talks to an AI version of their dead grandparentWhen your dead parent's smartwatch keeps getting notificationsWhen your deceased child becomes a viral sensationWhen your deceased parent's photos keep appearing on digital framesWhen your deceased parent's writings reveal hurtful truthsWhen your deceased spouse's email gets hackedWhen your deceased spouse's phone mysteriously takes new photosWhen your dying parent wants to organize their digital photosWhen your stepchildren obsess over their deceased mother's blogWhether to delete social media when you are dyingWhether to tell your children about your deceased spouse's affairWhy some people keep paying for their loved one's phone after death